"Canadians Sweep the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards"
"George McWhirter wins $78,000 for the international prize for his translation of Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, written in Spanish by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis (New Directions Publishing). The international prize of C$130,000 is shared 60% to the translator, 40% to the original author; each of the other finalists receive C$10,000....Judges Albert F. Moritz (Canada), Jan Wagner (Germany), and Anne Waldman (USA) each read 592 books of poetry, including 49 translations from 22 languages, submitted by 235 publishers from 14 different countries."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Orchid Tierney on "a field guide to future flora"
"however distributed vegetal cognition is, plants are nonetheless remarkable sensing and sensate beings, who invite speculation as to who we—the weirdos of this world—are if we are not already communal thinkers. so: to look upon a plant with an appreciation that its own mind is radically different is a terse exercise in the acceptance of its unknowability." |
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