April.09.2013.
Ian Williams shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Ian Williams’ Personals is on the Canadian shortlist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize! He is shortlisted alongside David W. McFadden (What’s the Score, Mansfield Press) and James Pollock (Sailing to Babylon, Able Muse Press).
The international shortlist is made up of Fady Joudah (translation of Ghassan Zaqtan’s Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Yale University Press), Jennifer Maiden (Liquid Nitrogen, Giramondo Publishing), Alan Shapiro (Night of the Republic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Brenda Shaughnessy (Our Andromeda, Copper Canyon Press).
The full shortlist announcement can be found here. Congratulations to Ian and all the finalists!