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Each year, the best books of poetry published in English
internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry
Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and richest literary
awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred
interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention
on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in
translation. Each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features
the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and
introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.
Royalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
will be donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day, which was created to
support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer
endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their
communities. Shortlist announced: April 11, 2017 Readings: June 7,
2017 Prizes awarded: June 8, 2017
"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo
Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate
change and other environmental degradations become more evident,
experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer
emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling
these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find
a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice. The concept of
solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht,
who describes it as "the homesickness we feel while still at home."
It's the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world
immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world
serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf. This powerful
anthology brings together thirty-four writers-educators,
journalists, poets, and scientists-to share their emotions in the
face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their
beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of
what we can create.
Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
Selected by Arthur Sze"
Hyperboreal" originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense
of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns
that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that
our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on
the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns
King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the
federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and
permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the
assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is
capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an
entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban
centers. Through language, "Hyperboreal" grants forum to issues of
displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and
loss of family that King Island people--and all Inuit--are
contending with.
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