Liz Howard among Canadian contenders for $65K Griffin Poetry Prize
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Northern Ontario-raised writer Liz Howard is angling to win her second $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize.
The 2016 Griffin winner is among the three Canadian finalists for the prestigious literary prize, which also announced the four titles on the short list for the international honour. The Griffin will award two winners $65,000 each at an online ceremony on June 15.
Howard, who is of mixed European and Anishinaabe descent, is nominated for "Letters in a Bruised Cosmos," from McClelland & Stewart, which invokes western and Indigenous astrophysics to chart her family history.
The title is a followup to her Griffin-winning first book of poetry, "Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent." Her competitors hope to pull off the same feat this year with their debut collections.
Montreal's David Bradford received a nod for his interdisciplinary inquiry into intergenerational trauma, "Dream of No One But Myself," published by Brick Books.
