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  • "Intimacy Was a Lost Country" Billy-Ray Belcourt on His Origin Story & Reading Like His Life Depends on It
    "Intimacy Was a Lost Country" Billy-Ray Belcourt on His Origin Story & Reading Like His Life Depends on It
    September 25, 2019

    "Intimacy Was a Lost Country" Billy-Ray Belcourt on His Origin Story & Reading Like His Life Depends on It

    In 2017, Billy-Ray Belcourt took the poetry world by storm with his debut collection, This World is a Wound. It went on to win the 2018 Griffin Prize (amongst many other honours), making Belcourt the ...

  • Billy-Ray Belcourt is the Youngest Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Ever
    Billy-Ray Belcourt is the Youngest Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Ever
    June 08, 2018

    Billy-Ray Belcourt is the Youngest Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Ever

    Billy-Ray Belcourt has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize for his acclaimed collection, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House). At 23 years old, he is the youngest winner of the prize ever. Belcourt ...

  • "I Try to Find the Shape of a Poem" Talking to the Griffin Poetry Prize Finalists about Process & Poetry
    "I Try to Find the Shape of a Poem" Talking to the Griffin Poetry Prize Finalists about Process & Poetry
    May 30, 2018

    "I Try to Find the Shape of a Poem" Talking to the Griffin Poetry Prize Finalists about Process & Poetry

    When it comes to poetry, it doesn't get any bigger than the Griffin Poetry Prize. The two $75,000 prizes (one for a Canadian collection of poetry, one for an international collection) not only has one ...

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