The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced the winner for the 2024 Canadian First Book Prize. Maggie Burton, autoher of Chores, will be in residence at Civitella in 2025.
The judges note: “Maggie Burton’s Chores is charming and profound, traditional and inventive[…] The book’s detailed, intimate awareness beautifully evokes Newfoundland and expands to our worldwide cultural moment […] For all the fate, traditional limitation, labour, bitter recognition that chores contain, perhaps the deepest desire of Chores is to fulfill its glimpses of hope beyond mere acceptance: “the old harbour was chock solid with seals // and harpoons and I now believe / with all my heart the stirring is true…”
Congratulations, Maggie!
Maggie will be reading in Toronto on Wednesday, June 5, at Koerner Hall.
For more information see the link below
https://griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2024-canadian-first-book-prize-winner/