[New-Poetry] A Griffin to Ashbery & Blaser

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WRITING: 'DEEPEST LANGUAGE'

Griffin Prize honours two octogenarian poets
JAMES ADAMS 

June 5, 2008


Octogenarian poets triumphed at a ceremony bestowing the eighth annual Griffin Prize for poetry last night in Toronto.

New York's John Ashbery, 81, was the winner of the international section of the prestigious award for his book Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems.


Robin Blaser, 83, took the Canadian honour for his 500-page epic The Holy Forest: Collected Poems. 

The prize, founded by Toronto businessman Scott Griffin in 2001, honours original English-language poetry, either as written or in translation, and splits $100,000 evenly between a Canadian writer and an international poet

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