2016 Shortlist – Griffin Poetry Prize

International Shortlist

	International Winner Book: *The Quotations of Bone* Poet: Norman Dubie Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
	Book: *Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings* Poet: Joy Harjo Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
	Book: *40 Sonnets* Poet: Don Paterson Publisher: Faber and Faber
	Book: *Heaven* Poet: Rowan Ricardo Phillips Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Canadian Shortlist
	Book: *Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments* Translators: Per Brask and Patrick Friesen Poet: Ulrikka S. Gernes Publisher: Brick Books
	Canadian Winner Book: *Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent* Poet: Liz Howard Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
	Book: *Tell: poems for a girlhood* Poet: Soraya Peerbaye Publisher: Pedlar Press
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The Griffin Poetry Prize 2016 Anthology

Edited by Adam Sol

House of Anansi Press

Royalties from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression, and to offer endangered languages the opportunities to be heard in their communities.

Griffin Poetry Prize 2016 Photo Gallery

Robin Robertson, Scott and Krystyne Griffin

Soraya Peerbaye, Tracy K. Smith

Scott Griffin, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle

Adam Zagajewski, Scott Griffin

Ulrikka Gernes, Per Brask, Eve Joseph, Patrick Friesen

Soraya Peerbaye, Michael Ondaatje

Soraya Peerbaye

Krystyne Griffin, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Nuria Royo Planas

Carolyn Forché

Ulrikka Gernes

Soraya Peerbaye, Per Brask

Eve Joseph, Patrick Friesen

David Whitton, Liz Howard

Lee Maracle, Owen Sapulpa, Joy Harjo

Alice Oswald, Adam Sol, Tracy K. Smith

Soraya Peerbaye, Liz Howard

Carolyn Forche, Robin Robertson, Karen Solie, Don Paterson

Ulrikka Gernes

Tessa Griffin, Scott Griffin, Ruth Smith

Scott Griffin, Mark Doty, Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Florence Richler, Krystyne Griffin

Scott Griffin

Tracy K. Smith

Michael Wiegers (reading for Norman Dubie)

Adam Sol

Joy Harjo

Alice Oswald

Don Paterson

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Mark Doty

Adam Zagajewski

Per Brask, Ulrikka Gernes

Per Brask, Patrick Friesen, Ulrikka Gernes

Liz Howard

Soraya Peerbaye

Front row (left to right): Liz Howard, Soraya Peerbaye, Adam Zagajewski, Joy Harjo, Ulrikka S. Gernes Back row (left to right): Tracy K. Smith, Per Brask, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Alice Oswald, Scott Griffin, Adam Sol, Don Paterson, Michael Wiegers and Patrick Friesen

Don Paterson

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Liz Howard

Adam Zagajewski

Kitty Lewis, Miriam Toews

Ruth Smith, Robin Robertson, Carolyn Forche, Mark Doty, Tracy K. Smith

Maureen Scott Harris, Kitty Lewis

Scott and Krystyne Griffin

Ulrikka Gernes

Tracy K. Smith, Karen Solie

Alice Oswald, Don Paterson, Robin Robertson

Michael Wiegers, Carolyn Forche, Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Núria Royo Planas

Jack Rabinovitch, Anna Porter

Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding

Ruth Smith

Adam Dickinson, Erin Knight

Alice Oswald

Douglas Goold, Libby Znaimer

Jeramy Dodds, Tawny Andersen

Tara Mora

Charles Foran, Mary Ladky

Joy Harjo

Soraya Peerbaye, Mark Jones

Melissa Shirley, Chris Jackson

Ken Babstock

A.F. Moritz, Ayesha Chatterjee, Ian Williams

Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Carolyn Forche, Adam Zagajewski

Peter Lamantia, Ruth Smith, Robin Robertson

Liz Howard

Michael Wiegers (speaking to Norman Dubie)

Ken Babstock, Liz Howard

Michael Wiegers, Scott Griffin, Liz Howard

Michael Ondaatje, Liz Howard

Dennis Lee, Susan Perly

Pia Kleber, Max Streicher

Adam Dickinson, Jeramy Dodds, Tawny Andersen, Catherine Bush, Karen Solie, Matthew Tierney

Joy Harjo, Robin Robertson

Mark Jones, Soraya Peerbaye

Marie Foolchand

Please contact webmaster@griffinpoetryprize.com if we have missed anyone’s names in picture captions. Thank you!

Photo credits: Tom Sandler Photography

Photo credits:
Norman Dubie, by Matt Valentine
Liz Howard, by Ralph Kolewe
Don Paterson, by Murdo Macleod
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, by Sue Kwon

International Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Griffin Poetry Prize 2016 Photo Gallery