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On Skullduggery:
"A delight to read and read again. Asa Boxer is a true master of language- and he knows it. This collection is at once belly-shakingly funny, piercingly insightful, ironic, and melodically composed... .If poetry was ever 'meant' to be some way, this is it." —2011 QWF Jury
On Gift Horse:
"It’s rare to encounter a poet who can weave economics, wildlife preservation, public policy, personal and civic history, epidemiology and gastronomy together into the tapestry of metaphor using such deceptively simple language." —National Post
On Boxing the Compass:
"Boxing the Compass, is excellent. Greene avoids the mundane through
the clarity of his observation, the ingenuity of his rhyme, and the
modesty of his wisdom." —University of Toronto Quarterly
"This book is alive with small pleasures." —The Globe & Mail
Praise for Niko:
"Nasrallah possesses superb powers of description. With a few deft strokes, he delivers a character’s essence and motivations. His idiosyncratically scarred landscapes shimmer in exotic hues." —The Globe and Mail
"Niko is a story of accepting the frailty of human beings and about moving forward through the bitterness of exile." —The Montreal Gazette
On Where We Might Have Been:
"It is difficult to think of another poet whose style is so unmannered, whose tone is so engagingly true."—Globe & Mail
On The Crow's Vow:
"...innovative, strangely elusive, haunting and worth reading and re-reading." —Mel Pryor
On Penned:
"Penned shines a poignant, unexpected light on what it means to be human."—Roverarts
Stopping for Strangers
Praise for Stopping for Strangers:
"His characters are memorable ones, their dilemmas familiar, their judgments and actions not always for the best. Mr. Griffin’s writing deserves a wide audience." —The Globe and Mail
"This fine fine collection evokes echoes of the plain and piercing voice of Raymond Carver. These stories upended me: they are strong, surprising and full of heart. The size of the soul looms large in Daniel Griffin’s writing." — David Bergen
"Griffin’s at his best when he explores the intricacies and heartaches of family relationship and crisis. Here, in Stopping for Strangers, I believe we’re witnessing the emergence of a future master. " —Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Winner of $50,000 Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Mark Tredinnick, winner of the $ 50,000 Poetry Prize, for his poem "Walking Underwater". The winning poem was selected by former UK poet laureate Andrew Motion from a shortlist of nearly 50 poems. “This is a bold, big-thinking poem, in which ancient themes (especially the theme of our human relationship with landscape) are re-cast and re-kindled. It well deserves its eminence as a prize winner.” said Motion.
Find out more about the Montreal International Poetry Prize and this year's winner.