Being Ousted from the Best Seat at the Griffin Poetry Prize
Stephen Weir
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Posted 08.18.2012
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Canada
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The prize is the largest annual award for a single book of poetry in the world is the Griffin Poetry Award. I attended the awards ceremony, and while I would like to say I made a great impression at Conrad Black's table; turns out I just filched two seats from his friends.
