This year's international and Canadian shortlists have been announced for the Griffin Poetry Prize. The seven finalists are invited to read in Toronto on June 7 and will each be awarded C$10,000 (about US$7,495) for their participation in the Shortlist Readings. The two winners, who will be named June 8, each receive C$65,000 (about US$48,730). The shortlisted Griffin titles are:
International
World of Made and Unmade by Jane Mead
In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Canadian
Injun by Jordan Abel
Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen
Silvija by Sandra Ridley
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Daniel Rachel won 2017 Penderyn Music Book Prize, which is given "specifically for music titles (history, theory, biography, autobiography)" published in the U.K., for Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge. The winner receives a check for £1,000 (about $1,245) and a bottle of Penderyn Single Cask Whiskey.
Rachel said, "This award is a tribute to the 100 or more contributors to the book whose actions and songs changed our country's cultural landscape and a remainder to tomorrow's heroes that pop music can change the world."