Why the Griffin Poetry Prize combining its awards is bad news for Canadian poets
The move takes away a rare opportunity for visibility and economic stability that was once guaranteed to Canadian poets, argues writer Alicia Elliott.
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Liz Howard, Tolu Oloruntoba & David Bradford shortlisted for 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize
Liz Howard's Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, Tolu Oloruntoba's The Junta of Happenstance and David Bradford's Dream of No One But Myself comprise the Canadian shortlist for the $65,000 award.
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35 Canadian books to check out in summer 2021
, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont. The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books) The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English, The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Indigenous sexuality and sensuality. It is the story of a forbidden but fulfilling love affair between...
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