The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

A Selection of the Shortlist

edited by Adam Dickinson

Para-Social Butterfly

by (author) Šari Dale

Ages

16 to 18

Grades

11 to 12

New Infinity

by (author) Bára Hladík

Ages

16 to 18

Grades

11 to 12

Boat

by (author) Lisa Robertson

Un

by (author) Ivan Drury

My Grief, the Sun

by (author) Sanna Wani

Waking Occupations

Poems

by (author) Phoebe Wang

Fast Commute

A Poem

by (author) Laurie D. Graham

Unfuckable Lardass

by (author) Catriona Strang

I Wish I Could Be Peter Falk

by (author) Paul Zits

Bird Arsonist

by (author) Tom Prime & Gary Barwin

The Absence of Zero

by (author) R. Kolewe

Words are the Worst

Selected Poems

by (author) Erik Lindner
translated by Francis Jones
introduction by David O'Meara

Miraculous Sickness

by (author) ky Perraun

the correct fury of your why is a mountain

by (author) Kevin Heslop

rump + flank

by (author) Carol Steski

rump + flank

by (author) Carol Harvey Steski

the correct fury of your why is a mountain

by (author) Kevin Heslop

Coast Mountain Foot

by (author) Ryan Fitzpatrick

Pandemic Poems

by (author) Philip Resnick

The Junta of Happenstance

by (author) Tolu Oloruntoba

The Junta of Happenstance

by (author) Tolu Oloruntoba

The Infinite Park

by (author) Peter Unwin

At the End of the World

by (author) Michael Mirolla