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2023 Shortlist

Robyn Creswell, USA

The Threshold Shortlisted

translated from the Arabic written by
Iman Mersal, Egypt/Canada
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Ada Limón, USA

The Hurting Kind Shortlisted

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

Exculpatory Lilies Shortlisted

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Roger Reeves, USA

Best Barbarian Winner

W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Ocean Vuong, Vietnam/USA

Time Is a Mother Shortlisted

Cape Poetry, UK
Penguin Press, USA