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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

Canadian Shortlist

Phil Hall

An Oak Hunch

Brick Books
Canada
Sylvia Legris

Nerve Squall

Coach House Books
Canada Winner
Erín Moure

Little Theatres

House of Anansi
Canada