See also 2017 Shortlist.
International Shortlist | Canadian Shortlist | Anthology | Photo Gallery
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Announcing the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
International Shortlist
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International Winner Book: The Quotations of Bone Poet: Norman Dubie Publisher: Copper Canyon Press |
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Book: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poet: Joy Harjo Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company |
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Book: 40 Sonnets Poet: Don Paterson Publisher: Faber and Faber |
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Book: Heaven Poet: Rowan Ricardo Phillips Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Canadian Shortlist |
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Book: Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments Translators: Per Brask and Patrick Friesen Poet: Ulrikka S. Gernes Publisher: Brick Books |
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Canadian Winner Book: Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Poet: Liz Howard Publisher: McClelland & Stewart |
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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
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
See also 2015 Shortlist.