Respected Toronto-based poet and rabble.ca blogger Dionne Brand has been nominated for Canada’s biggest poetry award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, for her narrative poem Ossuaries.
She is one of three finalists for the $65,000 Griffin Prize in Canadian poetry and four international poets — including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney — are up for the international prize (also worth $65,000).
The Griffin is Canada’s richest poetry prize and the world’s largest prize for a single poetry collection in English.
Other Canadians in the running include Suzanne Buffam, a Canadian currently teaching in Chicago, for The Irrationalist, and John Steffler of Corner Brook, N.L., for Lookout.
Ossuaries, a novel-length narrative poem, tells the story of an exiled activist named Yasmine.
Brand’s most recent blog entry, Reckless coalition: Of language and politics, can be read here.
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