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[2] [3]The lost art of elocution is sneaking back into Canadian classrooms thanks to a new competition that will see students from 12 Ontario schools reciting well-known poems for a purse of $10,000 in prizes, to be shared by individual students and their schools.
[4]Every year, when the shortlists for the Griffin Poetry Prize are announced, Scott Griffin, the prize’s founder and namesake, takes the podium and recites a poem from memory. It’s an ability Griffin acquired in his formative years, when his father made the children memorize poems as punishment or as a parlour trick to recite before guests at a dinner party.
[5]Canadian literary benefactor Scott Griffin is taking his passion for poetry – in particular, the live recitation of poetry – into schools across Canada with a new bilingual recitation contest that will award $10,000 to students and school libraries.