Congratulations Karen Solie for winning last night’s prestigious, (and this year, doubly lucrative) Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection Pigeon.

Judges called the work a collection of “poems as humorous, often, as they are sobering,” adding that “once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.”

Read the full Globe and Mail article here.

Look for Solie’s work in Tightrope’s Best Canadian Poetry Series, 2009, and in the upcoming 2010 edition.

Congratulations Karen!