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The Griffin Poetry Prize, created by businessman Scott Griffin, awards $65,000 each year to an international poet and a Canadian one.
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TORONTO ? Canadian poets David W. McFadden, James Pollock and Ian Williams are competing for the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize.
The prize ? created by businessman Scott Griffin ? awards $65,000 each year to an international poet and a Canadian one.
Toronto resident McFadden is up for What?s the Score (Mansfield Press) while Pollock ? who lives in Madison, Wis., ? is in the running for Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press). And Williams, of Brampton, Ont., made the cut for Personals (Freehand Books).
The international finalists are: Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Houston-based Fady Joudah, translated from the Arabic, written by Ramallah-based Ghassan Zaqtan (Yale University Press); Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden (Giramondo Publishing); Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Alan Shapiro, who is a professor at the University of North Carolina; and Our Andromeda by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Brenda Shaughnessy (Copper Canyon Press).
The judges ? Suzanne Buffam (Canada), Mark Doty (U.S.A.) and Wang Ping (China) read 509 books of poetry from 40 countries, including 15 translations.
The seven finalists will receive $10,000 for participating in short list readings on June 12. The winners ? to be announced the following night ? will each receive $65,000.
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