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{"id":7324948987963,"title":"The 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2015-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn choosing the 2015 shortlist, prize jurors Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe, and Piotr Sommer will consider hundreds of collections published in 2014. The jury members will also write the citations that introduce the seven poets’ nominated works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewill be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 7, 2015\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 3, 2015\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 4, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:17:01-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:17:01-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43249818107963,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770899681","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":222,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770899681","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899681.jpg?v=1772482830"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899681.jpg?v=1772482830","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26451224395835,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899681.jpg?v=1772482830"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899681.jpg?v=1772482830","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn choosing the 2015 shortlist, prize jurors Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe, and Piotr Sommer will consider hundreds of collections published in 2014. The jury members will also write the citations that introduce the seven poets’ nominated works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewill be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 7, 2015\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 3, 2015\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 4, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eTim Bowling is the author of twelve poetry collections, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e and Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief. He has also published four novels and two works of nonfiction. His work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, two Writers’ Trust nominations, and five Alberta Book Awards. Originally from Ladner, British Columbia, he now resides in Edmonton, Alberta.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFANNY HOWE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e has written numerous books of fiction and poetry and has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. Her most recent collection of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, was published in 2014. She lives in Massachusetts and is currently a Visiting Writer at Brown University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePIOTR SOMMER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e has written numerous books in Polish, including a selected poems \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePo ciemku tez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. His poetry has been translated into many languages. He has also published two books of essays, as well as translations of American, English, and Irish verse into Polish. His books in English are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings to Translate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eContinued\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOverdoing It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. He has taught at several American universities and has been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships. He lives outside of Warsaw, Poland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"Edited by","ContributorRole_1":"Edited by","ContributorRole_2":"Edited by","Contributor_0":"Bowling, Tim","Contributor_1":"Howe, Fanny","Contributor_2":"Sommer, Piotr","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"128","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7425234337851,"title":"Pitiful","handle":"pitiful","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This poem begins where Bulimia ends\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eor maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ethe differential diagnosis is confused\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ecolonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eone day, if not now…”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions that disproportionately afflict Indigenous girls, women, and two-spirited persons. These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. In the tradition of poets like Amy Berkowitz (\u003cem\u003eTender Points\u003c\/em\u003e) and Hannah Green (\u003cem\u003eXanax Cowboy\u003c\/em\u003e), the poems in \u003cem\u003ePitiful\u003c\/em\u003e also lay bare the way patriarchy, medical sexism, and bigotry have not only sabotaged the treatment of such conditions but often make them worse.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-09-26T12:31:53-04:00","created_at":"2025-07-21T13:31:26-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","By (author) Bird Brandi","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2026-04-07"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":42334341791803,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014087","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pitiful - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":178,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487014087","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":42334341955643,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014094","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pitiful - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487014094","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with \"poems\" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, \"Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song.\" —Marya Hornbacher","id":25799184252987,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e“This poem begins where Bulimia ends\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eor maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ethe differential diagnosis is confused\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ecolonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eone day, if not now…”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions that disproportionately afflict Indigenous girls, women, and two-spirited persons. These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. In the tradition of poets like Amy Berkowitz (\u003cem\u003eTender Points\u003c\/em\u003e) and Hannah Green (\u003cem\u003eXanax Cowboy\u003c\/em\u003e), the poems in \u003cem\u003ePitiful\u003c\/em\u003e also lay bare the way patriarchy, medical sexism, and bigotry have not only sabotaged the treatment of such conditions but often make them worse.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487012250","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487011154","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487011826","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487012250","BASICMainSubject":"POE021000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/LGBTQ+","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBRANDI BIRD\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, the Tsleil-Waututh, and the Musqueam peoples (Surrey, B.C). Their debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e (Anansi, 2023), won an Indigenous Voices Award and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert and the Governor General’s awards. 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Pitiful
Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.
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{"id":6906349551675,"title":"A Coyote Columbus Story","handle":"a-coyote-columbus-story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA retelling of the Christopher Columbus story turns this tale on its ear!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures in it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus’s voyages. In doing so, he invites children to laugh with him at the crazy antics of Coyote, who unwittingly allows Columbus to bring about the downfall of her human friends. 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A Coyote Columbus Story
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story turns this tale on its ear!
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Boobies
A cheeky celebration of boobies — the blue-footed avian sort and the more familiar kind that we find on our own bodies.
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Skud
In this award-winning novel, four guys -- Tommy, Brad, Andy and Shane -- make their way through the jungle that is the last year of high school.
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It held red-capped woodpeckers knocking on standing deadwood, squirrels and chipmunks nibbling on cones to extract the seeds, and fungi the size of a dinner plate protruding from the trunks of some of the largest trees in the world. New green seedlings sprouted from old fallen stumps. Cronin brushed through the undergrowth, his jeans damp with persistent dew. Mounds of lime-green moss covering a thick bed of decaying tree needles were moist and soft underfoot—absorbing sound like a sponge. For now, the forest was still.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutblock 7190 also held great value for his timber company. At roughly twice the size of twelve soccer fields, the flat plateau near the base of Edinburg Mountain in the scope of the valley was a tiny sliver of forest. But it held some towering and valuable trees. The price of timber fluctuates every year, depending on species and market, but that year old growth was fetching between $80 and $100 per cubic metre of wood. (One cubic metre is roughly the size of a telephone pole.) West Coast old-growth forests produce between 800 to 1,200 cubic metres of wood per hectare, roughly twice as much timber as second growth. The gross value of the cut wood in this one cutblock in the Gordon River Valley could yield approximately a million dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in tandem with Walter Van Hell, Cronin began the survey at the low side of cutblock 7190, where he could hear the Gordon River thundering on the other side of a steep gorge. Come spring, salmon fry would be wriggling free of the pebbled river bottom and make their first swim downstream to open water; come fall, grown fish would hurl themselves upstream to spawn in the clear waters. He walked the contour of the cutblock. At regular intervals of a couple dozen metres or so, he reached into his vest pocket for a roll of neon-orange plastic ribbon and tore off a strip. The colour had to be bright to catch the eye of the fallers who would follow in the months to come. He tied the inch-wide sashes around small trees or low-hanging branches to mark the edges of the cutblock. “Falling Boundary” was repeated in block letters along each ribbon. The forest practice code stipulated that the company had to leave a buffer of intact forest 50 metres up from a river, especially one that was known to be a spawning ground for salmon. Some engineers keep tight to those regulations to try to extract as much timber as possible from a given area. They fall under the category of what’s known as a “timber pig,” someone who cuts and hauls trees by a singular mantra: log it, burn it, pave it. The sentiment is two-fold: ecology comes secondary to economics and these forests exist to be harvested. But Cronin was often generous with these buffer zones, leaving 60 or 75 metres up from a river—as much as he could without drawing the ire of coworkers or bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce the twelve hectares was enclosed in orange ribbon, Cronin crisscrossed through the cutblock surveying the pitches and gradients of the land. It was a slow task, clambering over fallen nurse logs and through thickets of bush. His goal was to determine where a road could be ploughed through the forest. It takes a specific skill to see through dense trees and haphazard undergrowth and plot a sure course that could allow for the safest and easiest extraction of logs. Maneuvering over undulating land layered with deadfall and vegetation, he marked a direct line through the forest with strips off another roll of ribbon, this one hot pink and marked with the words “Road Location.” He traversed any creek he came across and flagged it in red ribbon. When he was done, the green-and-brown grove was lit up with flashes of colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile working, Cronin was followed by a Steller’s jay—the provincial bird of British Columbia—which took particular interest in his work. “He would follow me around like a dog,” Cronin said. “I would be traversing creeks, taking my measurements and bearings, and he’s hopping behind me picking up the bugs as I stirred them up.” But once Cronin traversed a creek that separated cutblock 7190 with another patch of old growth slated for clearcut to the southeast, the jay stopped. “He would never cross that creek. We would pick him up again when we crossed back,” he says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sun broke through the canopy in long beams that spot-lit sword ferns and huckleberry bushes growing from the forest floor. But as Cronin waded through the thigh-high undergrowth, something caught his eye: a Douglas fir, larger than the rest, with a trunk so wide that it could have hidden his truck behind. He scrambled up the mound of sloughed bark and dead needles that had accumulated over centuries around the base of the giant tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Cronin looked up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree dominated the forest; a monarch of its species. A crown of dark-green, glossy needles flitted in the breeze well above the canopy of the rest of the forest, made up of a handful of exceptionally large cedars and firs but mostly younger and thinner hemlock. The tree’s trunk was limbless until a great height, like many of the oldest Douglas firs he had come across in his career. The species often loses its lower branches that grow in the shadow of the forest’s canopy, directing its attention to those that enjoy the maximum of the sun’s energy. Many of these large and old Douglas firs have trunks that grow twisted and gnarled, with clear marks of disease. This tree’s trunk sported few knots and a grain that appeared straight: it was a wonderful specimen of timber, Cronin thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He had spent the majority of his life walking through old-growth forests, under the canopies of some of the largest trees in the country. He had seen hundreds of giants, but this one tree stood above the rest. Douglas firs and Western red cedar are the two species in this area that are the most wind resistant, so are often stable enough to outlast storms and continue to grow through several iterations of a forest over a millennium. Still, many of the larger, centuries-old examples of these two species break off at their more fragile tops and their centres, over time, fill with water and rot. They become unstable and prone to blowdown. The timber inside begins to lose its value. The majority of the trees Cronin had flagged over his career, marking them for protection, were ones that he considered to be non-merchantable wood: the trunks were too twisted or too flawed. He could tell by looking at knots along a trunk if there was rot inside. For these trees, Cronin thought, why cut them down? Instead of a timber company deriving little value from these diseased or hollow trees, they can be left standing to serve the remainder of their lives as wildlife habitats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Dennis Cronin laid eyes on the large Douglas fir in cutblock 7190, he could see immense timber value. “I’m a logger and I’ve taken out millions of trees,” Cronin said. “But I was impressed.” The limbless trunk held only a minor twist, and the bark looked healthy. He couldn’t know with one hundred percent certainty, however. “You don’t know until you put a saw into it and by that point it’s too late,” Cronin said. But the tree exhibited few of the exterior telltale signs of rot or disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs well as an encyclopedic knowledge of these forests, Cronin could also see through the bark of a tree to its very core and see dollars. “I can look at a tree and tell if it’s got value or not. If it’s not twisted, if the bark is healthy, if the limbs are healthy,” Cronin said. “That one had value.” Encased within the deeply crevassed and corky bark of this single tree lay enough wood to fill four logging trucks to capacity with some to spare. If milled into dimensional lumber—two-by-fours, two-by-sixes, and the like—it could be used to frame five 2,000-square-foot houses. At first glance, he assessed the single tree in unprocessed log value as around twenty thousand dollars. But since it was a Douglas fir, with its coveted warm colour and pronounced grain, the tree could be turned into higher-priced beams and posts for houses in Victoria and Vancouver, or shipped across the Pacific Ocean to Japan. The single tree that the logger stood under could fetch more than fifty thousand dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing his hand-held hypsometre, a device to measure a standing tree’s height using triangulation of measurements, Cronin took readings from the base and the top of the tree and estimated its height at approximately seventy metres—one of the largest he had ever come across in his career—around the height of a twenty-story apartment building. Using a tape, he measured the tree’s breast height girth. It appeared just shy of the Red Creek Fir, the largest Douglas fir in the world, located a couple valleys away. Cronin didn’t know it then, but he had found one of the largest trees in the country. “When I walked up to it, I passed some big firs and some really big cedars—twelve footers, maybe,” Cronin said, referring to the diameter of the trees. But this one fir dominated the rest. “He towered above the forest. He stuck out like a sore thumb.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCronin could have moved on, continuing through the undergrowth to finish the job of mapping and flagging the cutblock for the fallers. The tree, with the rest of the forest around it, would have stood patiently awaiting its inevitable fate. The fallers would have arrived months later and the tree would have been brought down in a thunderclap heard kilometres away, hauled from the valley, loaded onto logging trucks, and taken to a mill to be broken into its most useful and most valuable parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBut Dennis Cronin lingered under the big tree. He walked around a circumference so great it would take more than six people holding hands in a circle to wrap around its base. Cronin had spent four decades working on logging crews and as a forest engineer, countless days working in the forests of Vancouver Island, and had encountered thousands of enormous trees over his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eInstead of moving on, Cronin reached into his vest pocket for a ribbon he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the broad base of the great Douglas fir’s trunk. The tape wasn’t pink or orange or red but green, and along its length were the words “Leave Tree.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarley Rustad is an editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, a major Canadian magazine, who has contributed to numerous long-form articles, including “Big Lonely Doug,” which won a National Magazine Award. 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Big Lonely Doug
The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.
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Bad Singer is a fun, fascinating, beautifully written, and strangely moving tale of a melodically-challenged man who yearned to sing. And it has much to say about the mystery of how music moves all of us, good and bad singers alike.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"John Colapinto, author of Undone","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable story of dogged determination to prove his own body wrong and, as such, is one of the more illuminating cultural studies of modern times.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Falconer is old school in his traditional approach to journalism. He conducts lengthy interviews and fluidly articulates complex scientific concepts. He’s the protagonist yet he doesn’t digress into self-indulgence. The result is fresh, intelligent prose. While he may be a bad singer, he’s a thorough researcher and gifted raconteur. 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Bad Singer
The journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we're really hearing when we listen to music.
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The Maestro
Young Burl Crow doesn't get many breaks but his meeting with Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, changes Burl's life forever.
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I Wish I Could Draw
A funny story about the wonderful things you can create if you refuse to limit (and label) yourself.
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to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Impossible
A funny story about a seemingly impossible child and his desperate parents, who enlist the help of a specialist with unexpected results …
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And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Adam Sol’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Norman Dubie’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Copper Canyon Press), Joy Harjo’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConflict Resolution for Holy Beings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), Don Paterson’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e40 Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Faber and Faber), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 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Gernes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Liz Howard (McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTell: poems for a girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Soraya Peerbaye (Pedlar Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 12, 2016\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 1, 2016\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 2, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:25:51-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:25:51-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43249810374715,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781487000875","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":249,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781487000875","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year, editor and prize juror Adam Sol’s selections from the international shortlist include poems from Norman Dubie’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Copper Canyon Press), Joy Harjo’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConflict Resolution for Holy Beings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company), Don Paterson’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e40 Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Faber and Faber), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The selections from the Canadian shortlist include poems from Per Brask and Patrick Friesen’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrayed Opus for Strings \u0026amp; Wind Instruments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Brick Books), translated from the Danish written by Ulrikka S. Gernes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Liz Howard (McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTell: poems for a girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Soraya Peerbaye (Pedlar Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist to be announced: April 12, 2016\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 1, 2016\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 2, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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ages 7
to 7
/ grades 2
to 12
Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds
An eloquent and timely plea for understanding refugees.
