The $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize was presented to Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel for his third collection, Injun (Talonbooks), at a gala in Toronto on June 8. British poet Alice Oswald won the international award for her volume Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape/W.W. Norton).

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Griffin winner Jordan Abel with wife Chelsea Novak, Talonbooks publisher Kevin Williams, and ABPBC executive director Heidi Waechtler (Tom Sandler)

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2017 Lifetime Recognition Award winner Frank Bidart (Tom Sandler)

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OMDC program coordinator Bianca Spence, Buckrider Books editor Paul Vermeersch, Coach House Books editorial director Alana Wilcox, and poet Sonnet L'Abbé (Tom Sandler)

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Author Anna Porter, Frum CAO Nancy Lockhart, and former <I>Globe & Mail</I> editor-in-chief William Thorsell (Tom Sandler)

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Author Erin Soros (Tom Sandler)

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Butterfield & Robinson owner Martha Butterfield, former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, and author John Ralston Saul (Tom Sandler)

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Poet Matthew Tierney, Charmaine Tierney, and poet Christian Bök (Tom Sandler)

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Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi and Krystyne Griffin (Tom Sandler)

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Editor Susan G. Cole, author Jessica Cooney, and Griffin Prize publicist Melissa Shirley (Tom Sandler)

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Author Sandra Martin, Roger Hall, and Florence Richler (Tom Sandler)

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Elizabeth Johnston, <I>Brick</I> publisher Laurie D. Graham, poets Maureen Scott Harris and Karen Solie (Tom Sandler)

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Poets Hoa Nguyen and Damian Rogers with translator Joanna Trzeciak (Tom Sandler)

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Author Rhea Tregebov, CBC Radio host Eleanor Wachtel, and Concordia University professor and author Sherry Simon (Tom Sandler)

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Poet Soraya Peerbaye and OMDC program coordinator Bianca Spence (Tom Sandler)

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Poet Adam Sol, Erin Knight, and poet Adam Dickinson (Tom Sandler)

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Sandra Martin, Roger Hall, bookseller Ben McNally, and author Lynn Thomson (Tom Sandler)

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Poet Christopher Doda and author Priscila Uppal (Tom Sandler)

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Poets Joan Naviyuk Kane, Dale Smith, and Hoa Nguyen (Tom Sandler)

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Maureen Scott Harris, Brick Books general manager Kitty Lewis, Erin Knight, and Adam Dickinson (Tom Sandler)

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