 Griffin has been interviewed on CBC Radio, discussing the genesis of his love for poetry, reading from his favourite works and paying tribute to poet Seamus Heaney, who received the Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award in 2012.Griffin is chairman, director and majority shareholder since 2002 of publisher House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books.He is also chairman and director of Steam Whistle Brewing, and a director of "Literary Review of Canada".