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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