Best Canadian Poetry 2020

guest editor Marilyn Dumont
series edited by Anita Lahey
consultant editor Amanda Jernigan

The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

A Selection of the Shortlist

edited by Hoa Nguyen

Black Matters

by (author) Afua Cooper
by (photographer) Wilfried Raussert

I Place You into the Fire

Poems

by (author) Rebecca Thomas

Finish this Sentence

by (author) Leslie Roach

The East Side of It All

by (author) Joseph Dandurand

The Whole Singing Ocean

by (author) Jessica Moore

Without Ceremony

by (author) Angela Carr

We are One

Poems from the Pandemic

edited by George Melnyk

Waking Ground

by (author) shalan joudry

The Bones Are There

by (author) Kate Sutherland

footlights

by (author) Pearl Pirie

Crooked at the Far End

by (author) Gerald Hill

A Gentle Reminder

by (author) Bianca Sparacino

In Praise of Small Mistakes

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Argentina poesía

by (author) Franci Louann

Entering Sappho

by (author) Sarah Dowling

Swivelmount

by (author) Ken Babstock

Word Problems

by (author) Ian Williams

Watch Your Head

Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis

edited by Kathryn Mockler

it was never going to be okay

by (author) jaye simpson

Sick Witch

by (author) Crystal Hurdle

eat salt | gaze at the ocean

by (author) Junie Désil

Text Messages

Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling

by (author) Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman