The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

A Selection of the Shortlist

edited by Gregory Scofield

Before Combustion

by (author) Nicholas Bradley

Mattress Makers

by (author) Sasenarine Persaud

Mattress Makers

by (author) Sasenarine Persaud

Muster Points

by (author) Lucas Crawford

Love Notes to Grievers

Tending to Grief After Loss

by (author) Angela E. Morris

Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022, The

edited by Eli MacLaren

When Africa Calls Uhuru

by (author) Henry Beissel

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After)

by (author) Mirabel

Fishing for Leviathan

libretto by Rodney DeCroo

Reckoning

with Patrick Friesen

Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead

ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân

by (author) Wanda John-Kehewin

Ages

14 to 18

Grades

9 to 12

leave some for the birds

movements for justice

by (author) Marjorie Beaucage

Shadow Catch

by (author) Daphne Marlatt

Ages

15 to 18

Grades

10 to 12

The Sacred Space

by (author) Brian J. Francis

After the Harvest

by (author) Keagan Hawthorne

The Animal in the Room

by (author) Meghan Kemp-Gee

Continuity Errors

by (author) Catriona Wright

Moving Upstream

by (author) Mary Barnes

A Net of Momentary Sapphire

by (author) R. Kolewe

Song & Dread

by (author) Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Ages

16 to 18

Grades

11 to 12

Oldman's River

New and Collected Poems

by (author) Sid Marty

Fire Monster

by (author) Anita Lahey
by (artist) Pauline Conley

For the Children

by (author) Rita Joe
illustrated by Burland Murphy