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And this silence can also be heard.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Etal Adnan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize is among the world's most significant prizes in literature. Awarded each year to the most outstanding volumes of poetry published worldwide, the prize recognizes works written in, and translated into, English. This anthology, edited by Gregory Scofield, offers a selection of poems from the 2023 shortlist, together with the judges' citations.\u003c\/p\u003e"} {"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487007317","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487009465","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487010935","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGREGORY SCOFIELD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Métis of Cree, Scottish and European-Immigrant descent whose ancestry can be traced to the Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught Creative Writing and First Nations and Métis Literature at Laurentian University, Brandon University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and the Alberta University of the Arts. He currently holds the position of Associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e, and has since published seven further volumes of poetry including,\u003cem\u003e Witness, I am. \u003c\/em\u003eHe has served as writer-in-residence at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), and most recently the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize (2016) that is awarded to a mid-career poet in recognition of a remarkable body of work. Further to writing and teaching, Scofield is also a skilled bead-worker, and he creates in the medium of traditional Métis arts. He continues to assemble a collection of mid to late 19th century Cree-Métis artifacts, which are used as learning and teaching pieces. Scofield’s first memoir \u003cem\u003eThunder Through My Veins \u003c\/em\u003e(Doubleday Canada\/Anchor Books)\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ewas re-published Fall 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Anthologies (multiple authors)","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","BISACSubject_1":"POE001000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGREGORY SCOFIELD\u003c\/strong\u003e is Métis of Cree, Scottish and European-Immigrant descent whose ancestry can be traced to the Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught Creative Writing and First Nations and Métis Literature at Laurentian University, Brandon University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and the Alberta University of the Arts. He currently holds the position of Associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e, and has since published seven further volumes of poetry including,\u003ci\u003e Witness, I am. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has served as writer-in-residence at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), and most recently the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize (2016) that is awarded to a mid-career poet in recognition of a remarkable body of work. 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The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry from the shortlist of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Cover: Trinity Street, poems, by Jen Currin. A photo of a park bench at night, lit up by a light source off-camera. The light also hits the bright green grass surrounding the bench, and a tree on the far left side. Even the trunk appears illuminated in green from the grass reflecting light. Trees and bushes to the right of the bench appear in the shadows. Far in the distance, city lights are just barely visible.

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Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Chinook, Clackamas, and other tribes, Currin studied with Martín Espada and John Ashbery before moving to Canada in 2002. They live in New Westminster, BC, on unceded Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, and Musqueam territories and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Women Authors","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ LGBTQ+","BISACSubject_0":"POE024000","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","BISACSubject_2":"POE021000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJEN CURRIN \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of seven books, including Hider\/Seeker: Stories, which won a Canadian Independent Book Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award and was a Lambda finalist. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Chinook, Clackamas, and other tribes, Currin studied with Martín Espada and John Ashbery before moving to Canada in 2002. They live in New Westminster, BC, on unceded Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, and Musqueam territories and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Currin, Jen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. 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It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eword\u003cem\u003eplay \u003c\/em\u003ebecause it romps and leaps within the form of the poem, the lines buck like animals. Throughout all of their books, and especially in this new one, Currin’s sense of language is sure and wild, wild and sure.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eKazim Ali, author of \u003cem\u003eInquisition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kazim Ali, author of Inquisition","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Set against the moody wetness of the Pacific Northwest through its perambulations from Vancouver to Portland and back again, these poems contemplate the moon; a predatory State in collusion with “Princes of Melting Icecaps;” the often-unseen intimacy between architecture and animals; intergenerational trauma; dying salmon and structural dystopia; and conclude with what must be paramount in our minds in the present ecological crises: water and healing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMercedes Eng, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJen Currin's poetry has won or been nominated for many awards including the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer audiences will be particularly interested in Jen Currin's new work, which has always centered queer themes from sex and relationships to community activism. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the perspective of a decades-long community activist, this book looks back at a life spent fighting for justice and sits in the complex dissatisfaction of seeing only incremental change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wry, shrewd, and brassy … What Currin is after as a poet and in poetry is beyond an either\/or premise. … Moving and discovering poems.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanthius\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Canthius","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant and melodious poems … From transit rides to office tasks, Currin brews heady substance from quotidian routines.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, the sensitive, careful language, each word picked full of colour and taste. 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Trinity Street

Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.

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Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.

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Quick View {"id":6983133659195,"title":"Passengers","handle":"passengers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEclectic, unpredictable, and strange, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely considered “one of Canada's finest writers” (\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e), Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part archeological dig, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T13:44:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:38:17-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40780122259515,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011253","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passengers - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011253","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780122325051,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011260","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passengers - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011260","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Passengers by Michael Crummey. 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Quick View {"id":6899075612731,"title":"Dunk Tank special hardcover edition","handle":"dunk-tank-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/em\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kayla Czaga's poetry collection Dunk Tank is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. 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