Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 judge Simon Armitage opens the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a lively and provocative keynote speech about the "mortification" that poets often suffer.

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Erin Moure reads Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I)

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist winner Sylvia Legris reads 4 Marked By Claws and Cloudburst ...

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Canadian shortlist nominee Phil Hall reads Saving a Lost Path Back and The Big Jack I Caught in the Stonepile

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail read The War Works Hard (in English and Arabic)

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Palmer reads The Dream of Narcissus and Dream of a Language that Speaks

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International shortlist nominee Michael Hofmann reads from Variations on No Theme (in English), and Durs Grunbein reads Cosmopolite (in English and German)

Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 International winner Kamau Brathwaite reads from Kumina

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Ken Babstock reads Compatibilist from Airstream Land Yacht

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Paul Farley reads Tramp in Flames

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Rodney Jones reads The United States from Salvation Blues

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian winner Don McKay reads Astonished and Petrified from Strike/Slip

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International shortlist nominee Frederick Seidel's Barbados from Ooga-Booga (read by Caroline Cave)

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 Canadian shortlist nominee Priscila Uppal reads Sorry, I Forgot to Clean Up After Myself from Ontological Necessities

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 International winner Charles Wright reads The Woodpecker Pecks But the Hole Does Not Appear from Scar Tissue

Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 shortlisted poet Matthew Rohrer opens the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a warm and entertaining keynote speech about the Republic of Poetry.

Griffin Trustees Robert Hass and Robin Robertson pay tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Tomas Transtromer

Griffin Poetry Prize 2007 shortlisted poet Paul Farley opens the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a humorous and engaging keynote speech about what it is like to be a poet.

Griffin Trustee Robert Hass pays tribute to Lifetime Recognition Award recipient Ko Un

Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 International shortlist nominee David Harsent reads from Marriage XVI from Selected Poems 1969-2005