Posted on 19/06/04
Wanted: verse of distinction
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology:A Selection of the 2004 ShortlistEdited by Phyllis WebbAnansi, 106 pages, $16.95By now we know which two poets won this year's Griffin Poetry Prize. From Canadian candidates, the judges -- Phyllis Webb and two former national poets laureate, Bill Manhire of New Zealand and Billy Collins of the United States -- chose Anne Simpson for Loop, bleak, well-wrought poems about history's nightmares. Simpson conducts exhumations and postmortems, and tracks the scars of the human record.
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