The Griffin Poetry Prize 2024
Established in 2000 by Canadian businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin, the highly prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize celebrates the finest poetry written in or translated into English each year. The finalists for 2024 include: the latest collection from the "hilarious" MacArthur “Genius,” Ben Lerner; a stunning, heartbreaking act of witnessing from Ukrainian poet, Halyna Kruk; and more...
10 books

WINNER
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Daily
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Homero AridjisMexican writer Homero Aridjis, who has been described as "one of the Spanish-speaking world’s greatest living writers,” takes us on an unforgettable panoramic journey through his homeland, while reflecting on the past and future.


Paperback, 2023
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Shortlisted
Steven Seegel 🇺🇦 & Marci Shore
A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
Halyna KrukIn this remarkable act of witnessing from Halyna Kruk, the Ukrainian poet attempts to grapple with the horrors that gather around her on a daily basis in her war-torn homeland. In this collection of poems, the painful inadequacy of words to provide protection against the grim realities of war are laid bare in devastating detail.


Paperback, 2023
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Shortlisted
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School of Instructions: A Poem
Ishion HutchinsonJamaican poet, Ishion Hutchinson, who previously received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, returns with a volume which serves as a poignant tribute to the West Indian soldiers who volunteered in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I.


Hardcover, 2023
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Shortlisted
Michael Pollan & Robert Macfarlane
To 2040
Jorie GrahamPulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham's 15th work of poetry invites us to the sights and sounds of a future already on our doorstep. The New Yorker staff writer, Nathan Heller, called 2040, "the most extraordinary poetry collection I've read in a good while."


Hardcover, 2023
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Shortlisted
Penguin Books & Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Door
Ann LauterbachIn her eleventh collection, Ann Lauterbach uses the motif of a door to symbolize the ongoing interplay between openness and closure in our lives, delving into the evolving relationship between our inner landscapes and the external world, which are increasingly shaped by technology. Ultimately, she provides readers with a lens through which we can view the complexities of daily modern life.


Paperback, 2023
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Longlisted
Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 & Nathan Goldman
The Lights: Poems
Ben LernerMacArthur “Genius” and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Lerner's new volume, "might be the best showcase for Lerner’s set of themes: Here we find a book caught between the puzzle of prose and poetry, public and private speech, past and present. Lerner is not merely cerebral; he is the rare writer who is hilarious no matter the form," wrote Kevin Lozano in the Washington Post.


Hardcover, 2023
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Longlisted
Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems
Joyce MansourThis posthumously published collection translated and edited by Emilie Moorhouse, is a perfect entry point for rediscovering arguably the most consequential Surrealist poet of 1950s Paris.
Paperback, 2023
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Longlisted
And And And
Cole Swensen"Swensen is returning us to a kind of first poetics, a prima poieia, in which word and world are co-creative and mutually flourishing. Here language doesn’t define, doesn’t categorize, doesn’t lay claim to fact or knowledge," wrote poet Dan Beachy-Quick of the former Guggenheim Fellow Cole Swensen's nominated collection.
Paperback, 2023
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Longlisted
Harmony Holiday & Poetry Foundation
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
Fred MotenLike his National Book Award nominated 2014 collection, MacArthur fellow Fred Moten's latest release is structurally and thematically radical and as the Cleveland Review of Books,' Coleman Edward Dues, writes, a project for the "dismantling of normative subjectivity."


Paperback, 2023
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Longlisted
To the Letter: Poems
Tomasz RozyckiThe Griffin Prize judges wrote of the Polish author's timely new collection, "In Mira Rosenthal’s translation of this work, English-speaking readers can themselves confront the sonnet as something supple, fresh and a little bit strange. Rózycki’s quirky and self-deprecating humour permeates the poems."
Paperback, 2024
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