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Posted on 07/06/07

McKay, Wright share top poetry award and $100,000

TORONTO -- Veteran poets triumphed last night at the 7th annual Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony in Toronto's Distillery District.B.C.'s Don McKay, 65, nominated for the Griffin Canadian Award on two previous occasions, hit the mark with his third nomination, taking the $50,000 honour from a field of three. His book, Strike/Slip, is the latest in a series of work dating back to the early 1970s.

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