Poet wins the biggie - the Griffin Prize - takes home $65,000
It is a Two-Fer Day for St Lucian Canadian poet Canisia Lubrin By Stephen Weir Oh what a day it has been for one of the country’s most successful poets. Canisia Lubrin has just learned that she has won one of the world’s richest poetry prizes. She also had been told today that she has won a Canada Council administered literary prize too! 37-year old Canisia Lubrin is the Canadian winner of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. She will receive $65,000 in prize money for her latest book The Dyzgraph x st . The Prize describes The Dyzgraph x st as a “spectacular feat of architecture called a poem … it is about contemporary capitalist fascism, nationalism and the climate disaster, where Jejune, the central figure, grapples with understanding their existence and identity.” The Griffin Poetry Prize was founded in 2000 to encourage and celebrate excellence in poetry. This year 682 books of poetry, including 55 translations from 28 languages from 14 different countri