Griffin Poetry Prize

Der Griffin Poetry Prize i​st ein kanadischer Literaturpreis, d​er 2000 v​on Scott Griffin begründet wurde. Er w​ird jährlich i​n den Kategorien „kanadisch“ u​nd „international“ a​n englischsprachige Lyriker vergeben u​nd ist s​eit 2010 a​uf insgesamt 200.000 CAD dotiert, w​omit er a​ls höchstdotierter Lyrikpreis weltweit gilt.[1] Seit 2006 w​ird zusätzlich e​in „Lifetime Recognition Award“ a​n internationale Dichter vergeben. Griffins ursprüngliche Absicht b​ei der Begründung d​es Preises bestand darin, d​em Feld d​er Lyrik i​n der Literaturlandschaft m​ehr Gewicht z​u verleihen. Der Preis w​ird ausschließlich a​n erstmals veröffentlichte Lyrikbände vergeben. Er stellt a​n sich selbst d​en Anspruch, sowohl n​eue als a​uch etablierte Autoren unabhängig v​on ihrer Stilrichtung z​u berücksichtigen.[2]

Preisträger und Finalisten

2001

Kanada:

  • Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
  • Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
  • Don McKay, Another Gravity

International:

  • Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
  • Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
  • Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
  • Les Murray, Learning Human

Jury:

2002

Kanada:

  • Christian Bök, Eunoia
  • Erin Mouré, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
  • Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine

International:

Jury:

2003

Kanada:

International:

  • Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel
  • Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980–1994
  • Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems
  • C. D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems

Jury:

2004

Kanada:

  • Anne Simpson, Loop
  • Di Brandt, Now You Care
  • Leslie Greentree, Go-go Dancing for Elvis

International:

  • August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
  • Suji Kwock Kim, Notes From the Divided Country
  • David Kirby, The Ha-Ha
  • Louis Simpson, The Owner of the House

Jury:

2005

Kanada:

  • Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
  • George Bowering, Changing on the Fly
  • Don McKay, Camber

International:

  • Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963–2003
  • Fanny Howe, On the Ground
  • Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
  • Matthew Rohrer, A Green Light

Jury:

2006

Kanada:

  • Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
  • Phil Hall, An Oak Hunch
  • Erin Mouré, Little theatres

International:

  • Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
  • Michael Hofmann, translation of Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein
  • Michael Palmer, Company of Moths
  • Elizabeth Winslow, translation of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Robin Blaser

2007

Kanada:

  • Don McKay, Strike/Slip
  • Ken Babstock, Airstream Land Yacht
  • Priscila Uppal, Ontological Necessities

International:

  • Charles Wright, Scar Tissue
  • Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames
  • Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues
  • Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Tomas Tranströmer

2008

Kanada:

  • Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser
  • Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, translation of Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard
  • David McFadden, Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden

International:

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Ko Un

2009

Kanada:

  • A.F. Moritz, The Sentinel
  • Kevin Connolly, Revolver
  • Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds

International:

  • C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering
  • Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader
  • Derek Mahon, Life on Earth
  • Dean Young, Primitive Mentor

Jury:

  • Saskia Hamilton
  • Dennis O'Driscoll
  • Michael Redhill

Lifetime Recognition Award für Hans Magnus Enzensberger

2010

Kanada:

  • Karen Solie, Pigeon
  • Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream
  • P.K. Page, Coal and Roses

International:

  • Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Sun-fish
  • John Glenday, Grain
  • Louise Glück, A Village Life
  • Susan Wicks, translation of Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Adrienne Rich

2011

Kanada:

International:

Jury:

Lifetime Achievement Award für Yves Bonnefoy

2012

Kanada:

  • Ken Babstock, Methodist Hatchet
  • Phil Hall, Killdeer
  • Jan Zwicky, Forge

International:

Jury:

  • Heather McHugh
  • David O'Meara
  • Fiona Sampson

Lifetime Recognition Award für Seamus Heaney

2013

Kanada:

  • David McFadden, What's the Score?
  • James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon
  • Ian Williams, Personals

International:

  • Fady Joudah, Übersetzung von The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems von Ghassan Zaqtan
  • Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen
  • Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
  • Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

Jury:

2014

Kanada:

International:

  • Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
  • Rachael Boast, Pilgrim’s Flower
  • Carl Phillips, Silverchest
  • Mira Rosenthal, translation of Colonies by Tomasz Rózycki

Jury:

  • Robert Bringhurst
  • Jo Shapcott
  • C.D. Wright

Lifetime Recognition Award für Adélia Prado

2015

Kanada:

  • Jane Munro, Blue Sonoma
  • Shane Book, Congotronic
  • Russell Thornton, The Hundred Lives

International:

  • Michael Longley, The Stairwell
  • Eleanor Goodman, Übersetzung Something Crosses My Mind von Wang Xiaoni
  • Marek Kazmierski, Übersetzung Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance von Wioletta Greg
  • Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Derek Walcott

2016

Kanada:

  • Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
  • Per Brask und Patrick Friesen, Übersetzung Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments von Ulrikka S. Gernes
  • Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood

International:

  • Norman Dubie, The Quotations of Bone
  • Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
  • Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven

Jury:

Lifetime Recognition Award für Adam Zagajewski

2017

Lifetime Recognition Award für Frank Bidart

2018

Lifetime Recognition Award für Ana Blandiana

2019

Lifetime Recognition Award für Nicole Brossard

2020
  • …

2021
  • Kanada: The Dyzgraphxst von Canisia Lubrin
  • International: Music for the Dead and Resurrected von Valzhyna Mort

Belege
  1. Peter Scowen: Griffin Poetry Prize doubles award money, theglobeandmail.com 6. April 2010, gesehen am 3. Januar 2011.
  2. Vit Wagner: Griffin Poetry Prize turns 10, auf thestar.com am 28. Mai 2010, gesehen am 3. Januar 2011.
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