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TORONTO – March 19, 2025 – The Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce the 2025 Longlist. 

Judges Nick Laird (Northern Ireland), Anne Michaels (Canada), and Tomasz Różycki (Poland) each read 578 books of poetry, including 47 translations from 20 languages, submitted by 219 publishers from 17 different countries.

The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

The winner will be announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings to be held at Koerner Hall in Toronto on Wednesday, June 4, and will be awarded $130,000. The other shortlisted finalists will each receive $10,000.

The Readings start at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available online.

General Admission, inc. 2025 Anthology – $30.00

Senior/Student, inc. 2025 Anthology – $25.00

Note to Booksellers:  Griffin Poetry Prize book stickers are supplied free of charge.  Please contact Ruth Smith at info@griffinpoetryprize.com to place an order. 

John Burnside

Ruin, Blossom

Cape Poetry

Aaron Coleman

The Great Zoo

translated from the Spanish written by

Nicolás Guillén

University of Chicago Press/Phoenix Poets Series

Brian Henry

Kiss the Eyes of Peace

translated from the Slovenian written by

Tomaž Šalamun

Milkweed Editions

Jessica Laser

The Goner School

University of Iowa Press

Karen Leeder

Psyche Running

translated from the German written by

Durs Grünbein

Seagull Books

Oksana Maksymchuk

Still City

University of Pittsburgh Press

Carl Phillips

Scattered Snows, to the North

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Diane Seuss

Modern Poetry

Graywolf Press

Dale Martin Smith

The Size of Paradise

knife | fork | book

Jeffrey Yang

Sidetracks

translated from the Chinese written by

Bei Dao

New Directions Publishing

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See also:

• Past Finalists & Winners