The trustees of the Griffin Poetry Prize have selected the jurors for 2011: Irish author Colm ToÃbÃn, Canadian poet Tim Lilburn, and American poet Chase Twichell. This marks ToÃbÃn’s second stint judging a major Canadian literary award, following his 2008 duties on the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury. As for the other two judges, Lilburn is a former Governor General’s Literary Award“winner for Kill-site (McClelland & Stewart, 2003), and Twichell is a seven-times-published poet and the wife of novelist Russell Banks.
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