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2024 Finalists

Maggie Burton

Chores Canadian First Book Prize Winner

Breakwater Books, Canada
Amelia M. Glaser, USA and Yuliya Ilchuk, Ukraine

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails Shortlisted

translated from the Ukrainian written by
Halyna Kruk, Ukraine
Arrowsmith Press, USA
Jorie Graham, USA

To 2040 Shortlisted

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Ishion Hutchinson, Jamaica

School of Instructions Shortlisted

Faber & Faber, UK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Ann Lauterbach, USA

Door Shortlisted

Penguin Books USA, USA
Ben Lerner, USA

The Lights

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Granta Poetry, UK
George McWhirter, Canada/Northern Ireland

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Winner

translated from the Spanish written by
Homero Aridjis, Mexico
New Directions Publishing, USA
Emilie Moorhouse, Canada

Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour

translated from the French written by
Joyce Mansour, France
City Lights Publishers, USA
Fred Moten, USA

perennial fashion presence falling

Wave Books, USA
Mira Rosenthal, USA

To the Letter

translated from the Polish written by
Tomasz Różycki, Poland
Archipelago Books, USA
Cole Swensen, USA

And And And

Shearsman Books, UK

2023 Finalists

Manolis Aligizakis, Canada

Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II

translated from the Greek written by
Tasos Livaditis, Greece
Libros Libertad, Canada
Joshua Bennett, USA

The Study of Human Life

Penguin Books USA, USA
Robyn Creswell, USA

The Threshold Shortlisted

translated from the Arabic written by
Iman Mersal, Egypt/Canada
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Sarah Holland-Batt, Australia

The Jaguar

University of Queensland Press, Australia
Ada Limón, USA

The Hurting Kind Shortlisted

Little, Brown Book Group/Corsair, UK
Susan Musgrave, Canada

Exculpatory Lilies Shortlisted

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Sharon Olds, USA

Balladz

Alfred A. Knopf, USA
Roger Reeves, USA

Best Barbarian Winner

W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Emily Riddle, Canada

The Big Melt Canadian First Book Prize Winner

Nightwood Editions, Canada
Warsan Shire, Somali/UK

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Penguin Random House Canada, Canada
Ocean Vuong, Vietnam/USA

Time Is a Mother Shortlisted

Cape Poetry, UK
Penguin Press, USA

2022 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Sharon Dolin, USA

Late to the House of Words

translated from the Catalan written by
Gemma Gorga, SPAIN
Saturnalia Books, USA
Douglas Kearney, USA

Sho International Winner

Wave Books, USA
Ali Kinsella, USA and Dzvinia Orlowsky, USA/Ukraine

Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

translated from the Ukrainian written by
Natalka Bilotserkivets, Ukraine
Lost Horse Press, USA
Ed Roberson, USA

Asked What Has Changed

Wesleyan University Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

D.M. Bradford, Canada

Dream of No One but Myself

Brick Books, Canada
Liz Howard, Canada

Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Tolu Oloruntoba, Canada/Nigeria

The Junta of Happenstance Canadian Winner

Palimpsest Press, Canada

2021 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Victoria Chang, USA

Obit

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Valzhyna Mort, Belarus/USA

Music for the Dead and Resurrected International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Srikanth Reddy, USA

Underworld Lit

Wave Books, USA
Tracy K. Smith, USA and Changtai Bi, China

My Name Will Grow Wide Like A Tree

translated from the Chinese written by
Yi Lei, China
Graywolf Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Joseph Dandurand, Canada

The East Side of It All

Nightwood Editions, Canada
Canisia Lubrin, Canada/St. Lucia

The Dyzgraphxst Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Yusuf Saadi, Canada

Pluviophile

Nightwood Editions, Canada

2020 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Abigail Chabitnoy, USA

How to Dress A Fish

Wesleyan University Press, USA
Sharon Olds, USA

Arias

Alfred A. Knopf, USA
Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, UK
Sarah Riggs, USA

Time International Winner

translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan, USA/Lebanon
Nightboat Books, USA
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, USA/Mexico

Lima :: Limón

Copper Canyon Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Chantal Gibson, Canada

How She Read

Caitlin Press, Canada
Doyali Farah Islam, Canada

heft

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Kaie Kellough, Canada

Magnetic Equator Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2019 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Raymond Antrobus, UK

The Perseverance

Penned in the Margins, UK
Daniel Borzutzky, USA

Lake Michigan

University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
Don Mee Choi, USA/Korea

Autobiography of Death International Winner

translated from the Korean written by
Kim Hyesoon, Korea
New Directions Publishing, USA
Ani Gjika, Albania/USA

Negative Space

translated from the original written by
Luljeta Lleshanaku, Albania
Bloodaxe Books, UK

Canadian Shortlist

Dionne Brand, Canada

The Blue Clerk

Penguin Random House Canada, Canada
Eve Joseph, Canada

Quarrels Canadian Winner

Anvil Press, Canada
Sarah Tolmie, Canada

The Art of Dying

McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada

2018 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Tongo Eisen-Martin, USA

Heaven is All Goodbyes

City Lights Publishers, USA
Susan Howe, USA

Debths International Winner

New Directions Publishing, USA
Natalie Shapero, USA

Hard Child

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Layli Long Soldier, USA

Whereas

Graywolf Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Canada (Driftpile Cree Nation)

This Wound Is a World Canadian Winner

Frontenac House, Canada
Aisha Sasha John, Canada

I have to live.

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Donato Mancini, Canada

Same Diff

Talonbooks, Canada

2017 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Jane Mead, USA

World of Made and Unmade

Alice James Books, USA
Donald Nicholson-Smith, UK/USA

In Praise of Defeat

translated from the French written by
Abdellatif Laabi, Morocco
Archipelago Books, USA
Alice Oswald, UK

Falling Awake International Winner

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, UK
W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Denise Riley, UK

Say Something Back

Picador Poetry, UK

Canadian Shortlist

Jordan Abel, Canada

Injun Canadian Winner

Talonbooks, Canada
Hoa Nguyen, Canada/USA/Vietnam

Violet Energy Ingots

Wave Books, USA
Sandra Ridley, Canada

Silvija

Book*hug Press, Canada

2016 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Norman Dubie, USA

The Quotations of Bone International Winner

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Joy Harjo, USA

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Don Paterson, UK

40 Sonnets

Faber & Faber, UK
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, USA

Heaven

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, Canada

Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments

translated from the Danish written by
Ulrikka S. Gernes, Denmark
Brick Books, Canada
Liz Howard, Canada

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Soraya Peerbaye, Canada

Tell: poems for a girlhood

Pedlar Press, Canada

2015 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Eleanor Goodman, USA

Something Crosses My Mind

translated from the Chinese written by
Wang Xiaoni, China
Zephyr Press, USA
Marek Kazmierski, Poland/UK

Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance

translated from the Polish written by
Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Poland
Arc Publications, UK
Michael Longley, UK

The Stairwell International Winner

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, UK
Spencer Reece, USA

The Road to Emmaus

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Shane Book, Canada

Congotronic

House of Anansi, Canada
Jane Munro, Canada

Blue Sonoma Canadian Winner

Brick Books, Canada
Russell Thornton, Canada

The Hundred Lives

Quattro Books, Canada

2014 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Rachael Boast, UK

Pilgrim’s Flower

Picador Poetry, UK
Brenda Hillman, USA

Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire International Winner

Wesleyan University Press, USA
Carl Phillips, USA

Silverchest

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Mira Rosenthal, USA

Colonies

translated from the Polish written by
Tomasz Różycki, Poland
Zephyr Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Anne Carson, Canada/USA

Red Doc> Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Sue Goyette, Canada

Ocean

Gaspereau Press, Canada
Anne Michaels, Canada

Correspondences

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2013 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Fady Joudah, USA

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me International Winner

translated from the Arabic written by
Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestine
Yale University Press, USA
Jennifer Maiden, Australia

Liquid Nitrogen

Giramondo Publishing, Australia
Alan Shapiro, USA

Night of the Republic

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Brenda Shaughnessy, USA

Our Andromeda

Copper Canyon Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

David W. McFadden, Canada

What's the Score? Canadian Winner

Mansfield Press, Canada
James Pollock, Canada

Sailing to Babylon

Able Muse Press, USA
Ian Williams, Canada

Personals

Freehand Books/Broadview Press, Canada

2012 Shortlists

International Shortlist

David Harsent, UK

Night International Winner

Faber & Faber, UK
Yusef Komunyakaa, USA

The Chameleon Couch: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Sean O'Brien, UK

November

Picador Poetry, UK
Joanna Trzeciak, USA

Sobbing Superpower

translated from the Polish written by
Tadeusz Rózewicz, Poland
W. W. Norton & Company, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Ken Babstock, Canada

Methodist Hatchet Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada
Phil Hall, Canada

Killdeer

Book*hug Press, Canada
Jan Zwicky, Canada

Forge

Gaspereau Press, Canada

2011 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Seamus Heaney, USA

Human Chain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Khaled Mattawa, USA

Adonis: Selected Poems

translated from the Arabic written by
Adonis, Syria
Yale University Press, USA
Philip Mosley, USA

The Book of the Snow

translated from the French written by
Francois Jacqmin, Belgium
Arc Publications, UK
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, USA

Heavenly Questions International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Dionne Brand, Canada

Ossuaries Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Suzanne Buffam, Canada

The Irrationalist

House of Anansi, Canada
John Steffler, Canada

Lookout

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2010 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland

The Sun-Fish International Winner

The Gallery Press, Ireland
John Glenday, UK

Grain

Picador Poetry, UK
Louise Glück, USA

A Village Life

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Susan Wicks, UK

Cold Spring in Winter

translated from the French written by
Valérie Rouzeau, France
Arc Publications, UK

Canadian Shortlist

Kate Hall, Canada

The Certainty Dream

Coach House Books, Canada
P. K. Page, Canada

Coal and Roses

The Porcupine's Quill, Canada
Karen Solie, Canada

Pigeon Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada

2009 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Mick Imlah, UK

The Lost Leader

Faber & Faber, UK
Derek Mahon, Ireland

Life on Earth

The Gallery Press, Ireland
C. D. Wright, USA

Rising, Falling, Hovering International Winner

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Dean Young, USA

Primitive Mentor

University of Pittsburgh Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Kevin Connolly, Canada

Revolver

House of Anansi, Canada
Jeramy Dodds, Canada

Crabwise to the Hounds

Coach House Books, Canada
A. F. Moritz, Canada

The Sentinel Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada

2008 Shortlists

International Shortlist

John Ashbery, USA

Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems International Winner

HarperCollins/Ecco, USA
Elaine Equi, USA

Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

Coffee House Press, USA
Clayton Eshleman, USA

The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

translated from the Spanish written by
Cesar Vallejo, Peru
University of California Press, USA
David Harsent, UK

Selected Poems: 1969–2005

Faber & Faber, UK

Canadian Shortlist

Robin Blaser, USA

Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser Canadian Winner

University of California Press, USA
Robert Majzels and Erín Moure, Canada

Notebook of Roses and Civilization

translated from the French written by
Nicole Brossard, Canada
Coach House Books, Canada
David W. McFadden, Canada

Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems

Insomniac Press, Canada

2007 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Paul Farley, UK

Tramp in Flames

Picador Poetry, UK
Rodney Jones, USA

Salvation Blues

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA
Frederick Seidel, USA

Ooga-Booga

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Charles Wright, USA

Scar Tissue International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Ken Babstock, Canada

Airstream Land Yacht

House of Anansi, Canada
Don McKay, Canada

Strike/Slip Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Priscila Uppal, Canada

Ontological Necessities

Exile Editions, Canada

2006 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Kamau Brathwaite, Barbados

Born to Slow Horses International Winner

Wesleyan University Press, USA
Michael Hofmann, Germany/UK

Ashes for Breakfast

translated from the German written by
Durs Grünbein, Germany
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Michael Palmer, USA

The Company of Moths

New Directions Publishing, USA
Elizabeth Winslow, USA

The War Works Hard

translated from the Arabic written by
Dunya Mikhail, Iraq/USA
New Directions Publishing, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Phil Hall, Canada

An Oak Hunch

Brick Books, Canada
Sylvia Legris, Canada

Nerve Squall Canadian Winner

Coach House Books, Canada
Erín Moure, Canada

Little Theatres

House of Anansi, Canada

2005 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Fanny Howe, USA

On the Ground

Graywolf Press, USA
Michael Symmons Roberts, UK

Corpus

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, UK
Matthew Rohrer, USA

A Green Light

Verse Press, USA
Charles Simic, USA

Selected Poems: 1963-2003 International Winner

Faber & Faber, UK

Canadian Shortlist

Roo Borson, Canada

A Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
George Bowering, Canada

Changing on the Fly

Raincoast Books, Canada
Don McKay, Canada

Camber

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2004 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Suji Kwock Kim, USA

Notes from the Divided Country

LSU Press, USA
David Kirby, USA

The Ha Ha

LSU Press, USA
August Kleinzahler, USA

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Louis Simpson, USA

The Owner of the House

BOA Editions, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Di Brandt, Canada

Now You Care

Coach House Books, Canada
Leslie Greentree, Canada

go-go dancing for Elvis

Frontenac House, Canada
Anne Simpson, Canada

Loop Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2003 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Kathleen Jamie, UK

Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead

Bloodaxe Books, UK
Paul Muldoon, USA

Moy Sand and Gravel International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Gerald Stern, USA

American Sonnets

W. W. Norton & Company, USA
C. D. Wright, USA

Steal Away: Selected & New Poems

Copper Canyon Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Margaret Avison, Canada

Concrete and Wild Carrot Canadian Winner

Brick Books, Canada
Dionne Brand, Canada

Thirsty

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
P. K. Page, Canada

Planet Earth

The Porcupine's Quill, Canada

2002 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Victor Hernandez Cruz, USA

Maraca

Coffee House Press, USA
Christopher Logue, UK

Homer: War Music

Faber & Faber, UK
Les Murray, Australia

Conscious and Verbal

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Alice Notley, USA

Disobedience International Winner

Penguin Books USA, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Christian Bök, Canada

Eunoia Canadian Winner

Coach House Books, Canada
Erín Moure, Canada

Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person

translated from the original written by
Alberto Caeiro, Portugal and Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
House of Anansi, Canada
Karen Solie, Canada

Short Haul Engine

Brick Books, Canada

2001 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Chana Bloch, USA and Chana Kronfeld, USA

Open Closed Open

translated from the Hebrew written by
Yehuda Amichai, Germany/Palestine
Harcourt, USA
Fanny Howe, USA

Selected Poems

University of California Press, USA
Les Murray, Australia

Learning Human

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, USA

Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan International Winner

translated from the original written by
Paul Celan, Romania/France
Wesleyan University Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Robert Bringhurst, Canada

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

Douglas & McIntyre, Canada
Anne Carson, Canada/USA

Men in the Off Hours Canadian Winner

Alfred A. Knopf, USA
Don McKay, Canada

Another Gravity

McClelland & Stewart, Canada