The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's youngest and most lucrative poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin, a wealthy automotive part manufacturer. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in the English language. Each winner receives CAD$50,000. This is a list of awards that are, or have been, given out to writers of poetry, either for a specific poem, collection of poems, or body of work. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Canadian dollar, CAD or C$, is the unit of currency of Canada. ...

Trustees

• Scott Griffin
• Margaret Atwood
• Carolyn Forché
• Robert Hass
• Michael Ondaatje
• Robin Robertson
• David Young

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, one of the worlds best-selling authors, and a pioneer of Canadian womens writing. ... Carolyn Forché is an American poet and human rights advocate. ... Robert L. Hass (b. ... Michael Ondaatje OC (born September 12, 1943) is a Canadian author. ...

2001

Canada: See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

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

International: Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet and professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. ... Robert Bringhurst (1946—) is a Canadian author and poet who writes about native issues and typography. ... Don MacKay (born 1942) is a Canadian poet who lives in Victoria, British Columbia. ...

• 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

Judges: Paul Celan Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (the pseudonymous adopts an anagram of his surname in Romanian, Ancel) (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), who is considered one of the few major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was the unofficial poet laureate of Jerusalem. ... Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction. ... Leslie Allan Murray (b. ...

• Carolyn Forché
• Dennis Lee
• Paul Muldoon

Carolyn Forché is an American poet and human rights advocate. ... For the inventor, see this Dennis Lee entry. ... Paul Muldoon (b. ...

2002

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

International: Christian Bök (born Book, 1966) is a Canadian concrete and experimental poet. ... Eunoia is a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health. ... Erin Mouré (born 1955) is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec. ...

• Alice Notley, Disobedience
• Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
• Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
• Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

Judges: Alice Notley Alice Notley was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. ... Christopher Logue is an English poet associated with the cinema as well as acting in a number of films. ... Leslie Allan Murray (b. ...

• Dionne Brand
• Robert Creeley
• Michael Hofmann

Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women. ... Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet, author of more than sixty books, and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that schools. ...

2003

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• Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
• Dionne Brand, thirsty
• P.K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New

International: Margaret Avison (born April 23, 1918) is a Canadian poet. ... Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women. ... Patricia Kathleen Page (born November 23, 1916), commonly known as P. K. Page, is a Canadian poet. ...

• 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

Judges: Paul Muldoon (b. ... Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is a United States poet. ... C. D. Wright (born 1949) is a U.S. poet. ...

• Michael Longley
• Sharon Olds
• Sharon Thesen

Sharon Olds (born 1942) is an American poet and author of seven volumes of poetry. ... Sharon Thesen (born 28th October 1946) is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

2004

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

International: Di Brandt (born 1952) is an award-winning Canadian poet and literary critic. ...

• 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

Judges: David Kirby is an investigative journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998, and author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. ...

• Billy Collins
• Bill Manhire
• Phyllis Webb

Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an accomplished American poet who served two terms as the eleventh Poet Laureate of the United States. ... Bill Manhire (born in Invercargill in New Zealand poet and short story writer. ... Phyllis Webb (April 8, 1927) is a Canadian poet and radio broadcaster. ...

2005

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

International: Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (1952- ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. ... George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. ... Don MacKay (born 1942) is a Canadian poet who lives in Victoria, British Columbia. ...

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

Judges: Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction. ... Matthew Rohrer (b. ... Charles Simic Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is an American poet. ...

• Simon Armitage
• Erin Mouré
• Tomaz Šalamun

Simon Armitage (born 1963 in Huddersfield) is a poet, playwright and novelist. ... Erin Mouré (born 1955) is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec. ...

External link

• Official website (http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/)