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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
Book Cover for: Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, Homero Aridjis
WINNER

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence

Homero Aridjis

Mexican 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.

Poetry FoundationPoetry DailyPoetry Foundation & Poetry Daily

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, Halyna Kruk
Shortlisted

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails

Halyna Kruk

In 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.

Steven Seegel 🇺🇦Marci ShoreSteven Seegel 🇺🇦 & Marci Shore

Paperback, 2023

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: School of Instructions: A Poem, Ishion Hutchinson
Shortlisted

School of Instructions: A Poem

Ishion Hutchinson

Jamaican 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.

Marie Myung-Ok LeeTheShipmanAgency shipmanagency.bsky.socialMarie Myung-Ok Lee & TheShipmanAgency shipmanagency.bsky.social

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: To 2040, Jorie Graham
Shortlisted

To 2040

Jorie Graham

Pulitzer 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."

Michael PollanRobert MacfarlaneMichael Pollan & Robert Macfarlane

Hardcover, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Door, Ann Lauterbach
Shortlisted

Door

Ann Lauterbach

In 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.

Penguin BooksDaniel Benneworth-GrayPenguin Books & Daniel Benneworth-Gray

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Lights: Poems, Ben Lerner
Longlisted

The Lights: Poems

Ben Lerner

MacArthur “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.

Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊Nathan GoldmanRishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 & Nathan Goldman

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems, Joyce Mansour
Longlisted

Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems

Joyce Mansour

This 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

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: And And And, Cole Swensen
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

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Perennial Fashion Presence Falling, Fred Moten
Longlisted

Perennial Fashion Presence Falling

Fred Moten

Like 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."

Harmony HolidayPoetry FoundationHarmony Holiday & Poetry Foundation

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: To the Letter: Poems, Tomasz Rozycki
Longlisted

To the Letter: Poems

Tomasz Rozycki

The 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

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book