Breaking down the Griffin
Toronto writer Barbara Carey has a piece on the CBC Arts site today that runs down the contenders for this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize. But perhaps most notable for Carey is what is not in the lists for the Canadian and international prizes. She writes: “What’s immediately striking about this year’s finalists is that lyric narrative, arguably the most dominant form of poetry in English, is conspicuously absent. Instead, the judges — Britain’s Lavinia Greenlaw, Eliot Weinberger of the United States and Vancouver-based Lisa Robertson — have opted for work that’s non-linear, often flamboyantly unconventional and far ranging in cultural references.”
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