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2022 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Sharon Dolin

Late to the House of Words

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

Sho

Wave Books
USA Winner
Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky

Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

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

Asked What Has Changed

Wesleyan University Press
USA

2021 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Victoria Chang

Obit

Copper Canyon Press
USA
Valzhyna Mort

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA Winner
Srikanth Reddy

Underworld Lit

Wave Books
USA
Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

My Name Will Grow Wide Like A Tree

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

2020 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Abigail Chabitnoy

How to Dress A Fish

Wesleyan University Press
USA
Sharon Olds

Arias

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

Time

translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan
Nightboat Books
USA Winner
Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Lima :: Limón

Copper Canyon Press
USA, Mexico

2019 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Raymond Antrobus

The Perseverance

Penned in the Margins
UK
Daniel Borzutzky

Lake Michigan

University of Pittsburgh Press
USA
Don Mee Choi

Autobiography of Death

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

Negative Space

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

2018 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Heaven is All Goodbyes

City Lights Publishers
USA
Susan Howe

Debths

New Directions Publishing
USA Winner
Natalie Shapero

Hard Child

Copper Canyon Press
USA
Layli Long Soldier

Whereas

Graywolf Press
USA

2017 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Jane Mead

World of Made and Unmade

Alice James Books
USA
Donald Nicholson-Smith

In Praise of Defeat

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

Falling Awake

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

Say Something Back

Picador Poetry
UK

2016 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Norman Dubie

The Quotations of Bone

Copper Canyon Press
USA Winner
Joy Harjo

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

W. W. Norton & Company
USA
Don Paterson

40 Sonnets

Faber & Faber
UK
Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Heaven

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA

2015 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Eleanor Goodman

Something Crosses My Mind

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

Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance

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

The Stairwell

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
UK Winner
Spencer Reece

The Road to Emmaus

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA

2014 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Rachael Boast

Pilgrim’s Flower

Picador Poetry
UK
Brenda Hillman

Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

Wesleyan University Press
USA Winner
Carl Phillips

Silverchest

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Mira Rosenthal

Colonies

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

2013 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Fady Joudah

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me

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

Liquid Nitrogen

Giramondo Publishing
Australia
Alan Shapiro

Night of the Republic

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
USA
Brenda Shaughnessy

Our Andromeda

Copper Canyon Press
USA

2012 Shortlist

International Shortlist

David Harsent

Night

Faber & Faber
UK Winner
Yusef Komunyakaa

The Chameleon Couch: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Sean O'Brien

November

Picador Poetry
UK
Joanna Trzeciak

Sobbing Superpower

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

2011 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Seamus Heaney

Human Chain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Khaled Mattawa

Adonis: Selected Poems

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

The Book of the Snow

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

Heavenly Questions

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA Winner

2010 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Sun-Fish

The Gallery Press
Ireland Winner
John Glenday

Grain

Picador Poetry
UK
Louise Glück

A Village Life

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Susan Wicks

Cold Spring in Winter

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

2009 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Mick Imlah

The Lost Leader

Faber & Faber
UK
Derek Mahon

Life on Earth

The Gallery Press
Ireland
C. D. Wright

Rising, Falling, Hovering

Copper Canyon Press
USA Winner
Dean Young

Primitive Mentor

University of Pittsburgh Press
USA

2008 Shortlist

International Shortlist

John Ashbery

Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

HarperCollins/Ecco
USA Winner
Elaine Equi

Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

Coffee House Press
USA
Clayton Eshleman

The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

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

Selected Poems: 1969–2005

Faber & Faber
UK

2007 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Paul Farley

Tramp in Flames

Picador Poetry
UK
Rodney Jones

Salvation Blues

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
USA
Frederick Seidel

Ooga-Booga

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Charles Wright

Scar Tissue

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA Winner

2006 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Kamau Brathwaite

Born to Slow Horses

Wesleyan University Press
USA, Barbados Winner
Michael Hofmann

Ashes for Breakfast

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

The Company of Moths

New Directions Publishing
USA
Elizabeth Winslow

The War Works Hard

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

2005 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Fanny Howe

On the Ground

Graywolf Press
USA
Michael Symmons Roberts

Corpus

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
UK
Matthew Rohrer

A Green Light

Verse Press
USA
Charles Simic

Selected Poems: 1963-2003

Faber & Faber
USA Winner

2004 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Suji Kwock Kim

Notes from the Divided Country

LSU Press
USA
David Kirby

The Ha Ha

LSU Press
USA
August Kleinzahler

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA Winner
Louis Simpson

The Owner of the House

BOA Editions
USA

2003 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Kathleen Jamie

Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead

Bloodaxe Books
UK
Paul Muldoon

Moy Sand and Gravel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA Winner
Gerald Stern

American Sonnets

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

Steal Away: Selected & New Poems

Copper Canyon Press
USA

2002 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Maraca

Coffee House Press
USA
Christopher Logue

Homer: War Music

Faber & Faber
UK
Les Murray

Conscious and Verbal

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Australia
Alice Notley

Disobedience

Penguin Books USA
USA Winner

2001 Shortlist

International Shortlist

Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld

Open Closed Open

translated from the Hebrew written by
Yehuda Amichai
Harcourt
USA
Fanny Howe

Selected Poems

University of California Press
USA
Les Murray

Learning Human

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Australia
Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh

Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

translated from the original written by
Paul Celan
Wesleyan University Press
USA Winner