Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian shortlist nominee Kevin Connolly reads Plenty from Revolver

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian shortlist nominee Kevin Connolly reads Plenty from Revolver

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian shortlist nominee Jeramy Dodds reads The Epileptic Acupuncturist from Crabwise to the Hounds

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian shortlist nominee Jeramy Dodds reads The Epileptic Acupuncturist from Crabwise to the Hounds

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian winner A.F. Moritz reads Thou Poem from The Sentinel

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 Canadian winner A.F. Moritz reads Thou Poem from The Sentinel

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Mick Imlah's poem Drink v. Drugs from The Lost Leader, read by Guillermo Verdecchia

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Mick Imlah's poem Drink v. Drugs from The Lost Leader, read by Guillermo Verdecchia

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Derek Mahon reads Dirigibles from Life on Earth

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Derek Mahon reads Dirigibles from Life on Earth

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International winner C.D. Wright reads Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof from Rising, Falling, Hovering

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International winner C.D. Wright reads Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof from Rising, Falling, Hovering

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Dean Young's Exit Exam from Primitive Mentor, read by R.H. Thomson

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 International shortlist nominee Dean Young's Exit Exam from Primitive Mentor, read by R.H. Thomson

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Griffin Trustee Carolyn Forche pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Griffin Trustee Carolyn Forche pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Literary critic and novelist James Wood opens the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a wickedly humorous keynote speech featuring his application for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry.

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Literary critic and novelist James Wood opens the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a wickedly humorous keynote speech featuring his application for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian winner Robin Blaser reads Image-Nation 21 (territory from The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian winner Robin Blaser reads Image-Nation 21 (territory from The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian shortlist nominees Robert Majzels, Erin Moure and Nicole Brossard read Soft Link 3 from Notebook of Roses and Civilization

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian shortlist nominees Robert Majzels, Erin Moure and Nicole Brossard read Soft Link 3 from Notebook of Roses and Civilization

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian shortlist nominee David McFadden reads Secrets of the Universe from Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Canadian shortlist nominee David McFadden reads Secrets of the Universe from Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International winner John Ashbery reads Interesting People of Newfoundland from Notes From the Air

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International winner John Ashbery reads Interesting People of Newfoundland from Notes From the Air

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee Elaine Equi reads Ultra-Confessional from Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee Elaine Equi reads Ultra-Confessional from Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee Clayton Eshleman's translation of Cesar Vallejo's Guitar from The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (read by Guillermo Verdecchia)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee Clayton Eshleman's translation of Cesar Vallejo's Guitar from The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (read by Guillermo Verdecchia)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee David Harsent reads from Marriage XVI from Selected Poems 1969-2005

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee David Harsent reads from Marriage XVI from Selected Poems 1969-2005

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Griffin Trustee Robert Hass pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Ko Un

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Griffin Trustee Robert Hass pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Ko Un

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 shortlisted poet Paul Farley opens the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a humorous and engaging keynote speech about what it is like to be a poet.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 shortlisted poet Paul Farley opens the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a humorous and engaging keynote speech about what it is like to be a poet.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian winner Don McKay reads Pond from Strike/Slip (video produced by Liz Zetlin)

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Griffin Trustees Robert Hass and Robin Robertson pay tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Tomas Transtromer

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Griffin Trustees Robert Hass and Robin Robertson pay tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Tomas Transtromer

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 shortlisted poet Matthew Rohrer opens the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a warm and entertaining keynote speech about the Republic of Poetry.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 shortlisted poet Matthew Rohrer opens the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a warm and entertaining keynote speech about the Republic of Poetry.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International winner Charles Wright reads The Woodpecker Pecks But the Hole Does Not Appear from Scar Tissue

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International winner Charles Wright reads The Woodpecker Pecks But the Hole Does Not Appear from Scar Tissue

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Priscila Uppal reads Sorry, I Forgot to Clean Up After Myself from Ontological Necessities

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Priscila Uppal reads Sorry, I Forgot to Clean Up After Myself from Ontological Necessities

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Frederick Seidel's Barbados from Ooga-Booga (read by Caroline Cave)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Frederick Seidel's Barbados from Ooga-Booga (read by Caroline Cave)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian winner Don McKay reads Astonished and Petrified from Strike/Slip

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian winner Don McKay reads Astonished and Petrified from Strike/Slip

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Rodney Jones reads The United States from Salvation Blues

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Rodney Jones reads The United States from Salvation Blues

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Paul Farley reads Tramp in Flames

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Paul Farley reads Tramp in Flames

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Ken Babstock reads Compatibilist from Airstream Land Yacht

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Ken Babstock reads Compatibilist from Airstream Land Yacht

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominees Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld read Yehuda Amichai's I, May I Rest in Peace

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian winner Anne Carson reads from Seated Figure With Red Angle (1988) by Betty Goodwin

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International winners Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh read Paul Celan's With a Changing Key

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian shortlist nominee Robert Bringhurst reads Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas' Those Who Stay a Long Way Out to Sea

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominee Fanny Howe reads from Veteran

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian shortlist nominee Don McKay reads from Sometimes a Voice (1)

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Reading Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominee Les Murray's An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Erin Moure reads Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International winner Kamau Brathwaite reads from Kumina

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Hofmann reads from Variations on No Theme (in English), and Durs Grunbein reads Cosmopolite (in English and German)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Palmer reads The Dream of Narcissus and Dream of a Language that Speaks

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail read The War Works Hard (in English and Arabic)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Phil Hall reads Saving a Lost Path Back and The Big Jack I Caught in the Stonepile

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International winner Kamau Brathwaite reads from Kumina

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Hofmann reads from Variations on No Theme (in English), and Durs Grunbein reads Cosmopolite (in English and German)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Palmer reads The Dream of Narcissus and Dream of a Language that Speaks

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail read The War Works Hard (in English and Arabic)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Phil Hall reads Saving a Lost Path Back and The Big Jack I Caught in the Stonepile

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist winner Sylvia Legris reads 4 Marked By Claws and Cloudburst ...

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Erin Moure reads Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I)

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 judge Simon Armitage opens the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a lively and provocative keynote speech about the "mortification" that poets often suffer.

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Griffin Trustee Robert Hass pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Robin Blaser

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International winner August Kleinzahler opens the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a lively keynote speech about the ideal reader of poetry.

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominees Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld read Yehuda Amichai's I, May I Rest in Peace

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian winner Anne Carson reads from Seated Figure With Red Angle (1988) by Betty Goodwin

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International winners Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh read Paul Celan's With a Changing Key

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian shortlist nominee Robert Bringhurst reads Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas' Those Who Stay a Long Way Out to Sea

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominee Fanny Howe reads from Veteran

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Canadian shortlist nominee Don McKay reads from Sometimes a Voice (1)

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Reading Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 International shortlist nominee Les Murray's An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Canadian winner Roo Borson reads from Summer Grass

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Canadian shortlist nominee George Bowering reads Pale Blue Cover

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 International shortlist nominee Fanny Howe reads from Kneeling Bus

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Canadian shortlist nominee Don McKay reads Setting the Table

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 International shortlist nominee Michael Symmons Roberts reads Pelt

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 International shortlist nominee Matthew Rohrer reads Dog Boy

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 International winner Charles Simic reads Shelley

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International winner August Kleinzahler reads The Tartar Swept

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International shortlist nominee Suji Kwock Kim reads Borderlands

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International shortlist nominee David Kirby reads Borges at the Northside Rotary

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 International shortlist nominee Louis Simpson reads A Clearing

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Canadian winner Anne Simpson reads The Trailer Park

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Canadian shortlist nominee Di Brandt reads Zone: le Detroit

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Canadian shortlist nominee Leslie Greentree reads "if I was a gate"

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 International winner Paul Muldoon reads The Loaf

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 International shortlist nominee Kathleen Jamie reads Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 International shortlist nominee Gerald Stern reads Roses

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 International shortlist nominee C.D. Wright reads Key Episodes From An Earthly Life

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 Canadian winner Margaret Avison reads Rising Dust

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 Canadian shortlist nominee Dionne Brand reads thirsty

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 Canadian shortlist nominee P.K. Page reads Planet Earth

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 International winner Alice Notley reads There was also Valium in the drink...

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 International shortlist nominee Victor Hernandez Cruz reads Problems with Hurricanes

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 International shortlist nominee Christopher Logue's Homer: War Music, read by Stephen Jennings

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 International shortlist nominee Les Murray's The Instrument, read by Stephen Jennings

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 Canadian winner Christian Bok reads Chapter I, for Dick Higgins

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 Canadian shortlist nominee Erin Moure reads What, me, guard sheep?

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Griffin Poetry Prize 2002 Canadian shortlist nominee Karen Solie reads Sturgeon

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Anne Carson accepts 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours

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Bravo! News coverage of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize

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