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Griffin Poetry Prize ぐりふぃんししょう

Edition 6 (2006)

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Winners

3 people
Sylvia Legris しるゔぃあ・れぐりす Winner

Layering images of weather and the nervous system, the poetry collection sharply captures storms, sensory overload, and the vibration of language. Its dense verbal texture gives form to the sense that nature and the body continually invade one another.

When storm and nerve meet, language moves like an uneasy current.

128 pages
contemporary poetryweatherthe nervous systemembodied sensationlinguistic experiment
Edward Kamau Brathwaite かまう・ぶらずうぇいと Winner

A poetry collection woven from Caribbean memory and diaspora, island landscapes, language, ritual, and the texture of loss. Its shifting bodily sensations and historical awareness overlap in a tense, resonant voice.

The memory of the islands keeps moving beneath the words, quietly but insistently.

143 pages
contemporary poetrythe Caribbeandiasporamemoryritual
Robin Blaser ろびん・ぶれいざー Special Award