“In this book ‘grief takes many / forms, as tears or pinwheels…’, ‘dying lasts forever / until it stops’ and ‘our sadness is plural, but grief is / singular,’” the judges say. This week’s poem is from Victoria Chang’s shortlisted collection Obit. When juxtaposed, thematic threads and images begin to surface: the underworld, grief, a celebration or mistrust in the lyrical “I”, and the rhythmic summoning of ancestry, to cite but a few shared concerns among this year’s shortlist.
In a recent interview on CBC’s Q, Canisia Lubrin mentions gratitude for the “conversations” created by the constellation of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted books. The announcement of this year’s winners is an occasion to delve deeper into the work of all our shortlisted poets. Our Poem of the Week continues to celebrate the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted poets.
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