The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology
Title | The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Phyllis Webb |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2004-05-22 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1770891390 |
The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.
Tell
Title | Tell PDF eBook |
Author | Soraya Peerbaye |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781897141724 |
"A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court transcripts. The murder made international headlines due to the viciousness employed by Virk's assailants: seven girls and one boy between the ages of 13 and 16, five of whom were white. The poems examine in part the poet's remembrances of girlhood, the unease of adolescence, and the circumstances that enable some to pass through unhurt." --Amazon.
A Green Light
Title | A Green Light PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Rohrer |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
National Poetry Series Winner and cult favorite Matthew Rohrer's latest collection of whimsical, dark, surreal parables.
American Sonnets
Title | American Sonnets PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Stern |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 69 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780393050844 |
Fifty-nine "Stern sonnets" of twenty or so lines from the 1998 National Book Award winner. This stunning collection moves from autobiography to the visionary in surges of memory and language that draw the reader from one poem to the next. "I was taken over by the writing of these poems," Stern says.
In The Slender Margin
Title | In The Slender Margin PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Joseph |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2014-04-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1443426733 |
Part memoir, part meditation, this book is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view. Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years of work in hospice care, Eve Joseph utilizes history, religion, philosophy, literature, personal anecdote, mythology, poetry and pop culture to discern the unknowable and illuminate her travels through the land of the dying. This is neither an academic text nor a self-help manual; rather, it is a foray into the land of death and dying as seen through the lens of art and the imagination. Rather than relying solely on narrative, In the Slender Margin gains momentum from a build-up of thematic resonances. Joseph writes toward thinking about death and in the process finds the brother she lost as a young girl. She wrote the book as a way to understand what she had seen: the mysterious and the horrific. Replete with literary allusions and references, from Joan Didion and Susan Sontag to D. H. Lawrence and Voltaire, this is an absolutely absorbing and inspired consideration of how we die and how we deal with it; a profoundly moving and helpful meditation on the mystery that awaits us all.
Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024
Title | Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024 PDF eBook |
Author | Albert F. Moritz |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2024-06-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1487013248 |
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Annually, 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.
Quarrels
Title | Quarrels PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Joseph |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781772141191 |
"These short, condensed prose poems demonstrate that the illogical has a logic of its own, and that the "real is underpinned by the surreal, rather than the other way around.""--