"Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice, one the critic Elizabeth Sewell, in The Orphic Voice, describes as ...a kind of manual of language and mind as a dance of relations, moving and not static, which may help us...
Griffin Poetry Prize 2024
The annual Griffin Poetry Prize awards two prizes: a Canadian prize is given to a living poet resident in Canada, and an international prize is given to a living poet from any country in the world. NNELS production focuses on the Canadian titles. Learn more about the award from the Griffin Poetry Prize website.
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Author:Swensen, ColeSummary: - Author:Lauterbach, Ann.Summary:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry In Ann Lauterbach's eleventh collection...
- Author:Mansour, JoyceSummary:
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist...
- Author:Hutchinson, IshionSummary:
A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of...
- Author:Aridjis, HomeroSummary:
An exciting new collection of poems by "one of the Spanish-speaking world's greatest living writers" (LA Review of Books). Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of...
- Author:Lerner, Ben.Summary:
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature. A formally ambitious and intensely felt...
- Author:Graham, JorieSummary:
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe - in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do. Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040,...
- Author:Rozycki, TomaszSummary:
Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a...
