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Byline: JANE SKRYPNEK; Staff Fifteen British Columbians have been appointed to the Order of Canada, including a former scientific adviser to thenpresident Barack Obama, a wellknown Haida artist and a [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN; Staff It's been a rough week for Canadian poets. The big news concerns the Griffin Poetry Prize. Previously awarded as two separate prizes - one for Canadian [...]

Byline: HILLEL ITALIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Lead Louise Gluck, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to [...]

Byline: ADINA BRESGE, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead Kaie Kellough is the Canadian winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. The Montreal-based writer was virtually awarded the $65,000 honour Tuesday [...]

Byline: ROBERT HARRIS; Special to The Globe and Mail Life Reflected National Arts Centre Orchestra Sony Centre in Toronto Thanks to the Luminato Festival, Toronto audiences on Sunday night got [...]

Byline: RUSSELL SMITH BOOKS rsmith@globeandmail.com Books of poetry are still published, regularly, by small presses, and some occasionally sold in bookstores: You will find them on five narrow shelves on [...]

THE BUZZ Toronto -- Classical composer Brian Current and Jamaican-Canadian dub poet d'bi young are among the winners of the 2010 K.M. Hunter Artist Awards. Other artists to be honoured [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER POETRY Canadian poetry's most generous patron celebrated the 10th anniversary of fiscal abundance in an overlooked art by doubling the prize money he distributes annually through the [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER AWARD Torontonian wins Griffin poetry prize An Rhode Island academic described as 'America's most original daring and scary poet' won the 2009 Griffin Prize for international poetry [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER GRIFFIN PRIZE U.S. academic, Torontonian top winners in poetry An Rhode Island academic described as 'America's most original daring and scary poet' won the 2009 Griffin Prize [...]

Byline: James Adams GRIFFIN SHORT LIST UNVEILED It's a horse race on both tracks of the 2009 Griffin Prize for excellence in English-language poetry. Last year both the prize's $50,000 [...]

THE BUZZ: BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Young B.C. poet wins Bronwen Wallace Award Toronto -- A 28-year-old poet from Smithers, B.C., has won this year's Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, [...]

Byline: James Adams Toronto -- A collection of poetry has won the 2008 Toronto Book Award, taking the top prize of $11,000 at a ceremony last night in Toronto. Glen [...]

Byline: Staff Toronto -- Poets from Canada, Ireland and the United States have been named as jurors for the ninth annual 2008-09 Griffin Poetry Prize. Toronto's Michael Redhill will be [...]

Byline: AP New York -- Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 (U.S.) prize for 'outstanding and proven mastery in the art [...]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS Octogenarian poets triumphed at a ceremony bestowing the eighth annual Griffin Prize for poetry last night in Toronto. New York's John Ashbery, 81, was the winner of [...]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS Poetry is doing nothing but using losing and refusing and leasing and betraying and caressing nouns ... It is doing that ... doing nothing but that. Gertrude [...]

Byline: Fraser Sutherland To judge by their ages, most of the writers on the shortlists for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize look a tad geriatric. One is even deceased. Cesar [...]

Byline: Marsha Lederman Vancouver -- Poet Gary Geddes is this year's recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence - a prize that recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed [...]

Byline: JAMES ADAMS Jurors for the Griffin Poetry Prize for excellence in English-language verse leaned heavily on older poets and their 'greatest hits' in their choices yesterday for the finalists [...]

Byline: Canadian Press TORONTO -- Don McKay and Charles Wright were awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize last night at a splashy Toronto ceremony that attracted a who's who of [...]

Byline: Staff Toronto -- The Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's premier literary prize, marked its 20th anniversary yesterday by announcing that two writers would be splitting the $20,000 francophone award. Toronto-based [...]

Byline: CP Sudbury, Ont. -- Governor-General's Literary Award-winning poet Robert Dickson died of cancer Monday. He was 62. Mr. Dickson, a Franco-Ontarian poet, author and Laurentian University professor, won a [...]

New York -- Poet Adrienne Rich and two founders of The New York Review of Books have been named recipients of honorary U.S. National Book Awards medals, it was announced [...]

New York -- Avant-garde American poet Michael Palmer has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 (U.S.) prize given annually for 'outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.' [...]

The shortlist was announced yesterday for the Trillium Book Awards, which promote Ontario-based writers in both fiction and poetry. Winners in both the English- and French-language categories will be announced [...]

Toronto -- Michael Winter and Asa Boxer were among the 12 Canadian writers honoured by the CBC Literary Awards, celebrating the best original and unpublished short stories, poems and travel [...]

Byline: SANDRA MARTIN TORONTO -- With his double-breasted blazers, open-necked shirts and diffidence, Scott Griffin always looks slightly adrift at the microphone -- like a sailor in search of his [...]

Scotland Jackie Kay's first collection of poetry, The Adoption Papers, won an Eric Gregory book award in 1991, a Scottish Arts Council book award in 1992, a Saltire Award in [...]

Byline: H. J. KIRCHHOFF BY H. J. KIRCHHOFF The Globe and Mail THE B.C. BOOK Prizes' poetry award will soon be named after Dorothy Livesay, a long-time B.C. resident and [...]

Byline: ISABEL VINCENT BY ISABEL VINCENT Special to The Globe and Mail Just about everyone from Chicago has heard the name Gwendolyn Brooks . The good-humored, bespectacled 72-year-old poet is [...]

CARMAN, MB -- Canadian Press CARMAN, Man. Paul Hiebert , the Canadian humorist who won the Stephen Leacock Medal in 1948 for his creation of the fictional poet Sarah Binks, [...]

Montreal poet Erin Moure will receive the Pat Lowther Award, recognizing her Domestic Fuel as the best book of poetry by a woman published in 1985. The Gerald Lampert Memorial [...]

Byline: H. J. KIRCHHOFF BY H. J. KIRCHHOFF The Globe and Mail The League of Canadian Poets has released its short lists for the Lowther Memorial Award and the Lampert [...]