The Griffin Poetry Prize gala is on tonight in Toronto.
The annual event will honour two poets, one Canadian and one international with an award of C$65,000 each.
The Canadian finalists include Shane Book of Ottawa, for Congotronic, North Vancouver writer Russell Thornton for The Hundred Lives and Vancouver’s Jane Munro for Blue Sonoma,
The international contenders are, Something Crosses My Mind by Eleanor Goodman, translated from Chinese, written by Wang Xiaoni, and Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Marek Kazmierski, translated from Polish, written by Wioletta Greg, The Stairwell by Michael Longley and, The Road to Emmaus by Spencer Reece.
The judges, Tim Bowling of Canada, Fanny Howe from the United States and Piotr Sommer from Poland, chose the finalists from a field of 560 books of poetry from 42 countries.
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