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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