Anthologies
Blues & True Concussions continues an Anansi tradition started by Dennis Lee more than thirty years ago. The title, taken from one of Lee's poems, captures the crazy joyful energy he has brought to all his endeavours, and these six new poets prove themselves similarly charged.
The annual collection of essays, excerpts, and interviews includes work from Isabel Huggan, Alice Munro, Edmund White, Pico Iyer, Alice Walker,John Berger, and Barry Lopez, among other notable authors. Original.
The Globe and Mail called the Griffin Poetry Prize a rich tribute” to the form and an annual report on the state of the poetry nation.” This year’s edition, featuring some of the finest work from the collections of extraordinary poets worldwide, reads like a who’s who of contemporary poetry. Selections were chosen by noted poets Michael Redhill, Saskia Hamilton, and Dennis O’Driscoll, and the result is a rich mosaic of a form that remains, in its relatively compact shape but often complex language, one of literature's most enduring gifts.