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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

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The Wren

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Layaway Child

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

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Seven Heavens Away

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

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Sharing the Light

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The Rayburn Affair

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The Traveling Circus

Cover: Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe. Two black outlines of papyrus swamp plants appear in front of a green background. "A Novel" appears in smaller yellow type.

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Everything Is Fine Here

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When Stella was Very, Very Small

Cover: Chrysalis: Stories by Anuja Varghese. The title is centred with the author's name below it. A faint paisley pattern fills the black background. The image is an 18th C painting of a thin reddish branch with heart-shaped leaves and a pale peach flower and two buds. In the bottom left is a pinkish-brown Antheraea polyphemus moth with a brown thorax and two large black spots ringed in white on the lower wings, and two smaller black and white spots on both the upper and lower wings.

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Chrysalis

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Sequence

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Stella, Queen of the Snow

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French Exit

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Shrewed

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

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Definitely Thriving

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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Inheritance

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Me enoja / Angry Me

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Soft as Bones

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

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Heroes in My Head

A photograph shows a close-up of a woman’s face. We see the bottom right corner of her face showing the side of her mouth, her cheek, and a part of her nose. She has light skin tone and short, curly, dark hair. She wears a pink lip colour and blush. Around her neck is a short, yellow pearl necklace and she is wearing a fine-knit, teal sweater. Text: Marie-Renée Lavoie. Autopsy of a Boring Wife. “True to life and wildly entertaining.” – Huffington Post.

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Autopsy of a Boring Wife

Book cover for “Every Space Between” by Naseem Hrab and John Martz. The cover is split in three sections: day, blank white space and night. On the left, a child with medium skin tone and straight black hair runs in daylight under a pale yellow sun. On the right, a white dog with black and brown spots and a red collar runs happily under a night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. The large orange title text “EVERY SPACE BETWEEN” fills the space in the centre with the creator names below in light blue.

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Every Space Between

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Basic Black with Pearls

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Second Words

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The Immortal Woman

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The City of Words

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Stella, Fairy of the Forest

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Taking Turns with Turtles

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

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The Two Roberts

Two circles overlap on a light grey background. The top circle is blue and the bottom circle is light orange. Where they overlap, their colors are split into wavy lines that still show the outline of each individual circle. Text: The Conscious Creative. Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work. Kelly Small.

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The Conscious Creative

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

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Interregnum

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

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A Love Affair with the Unknown

Cover: An Ordinary Violence, a novel by Adriana Chartrand. A black-and-white image of a rabbit against a black background spans the cover diagonally. The rabbit appears from the side with its eyes open. Its legs are bunched under its body, and its ears are laid flat against its back, with its nose pointed into the upper left corner. Red blood droplets spatter the cover.

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An Ordinary Violence

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On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

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On Wholeness

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A Short History of Progress

Cover: “A Kid is a Kid is a Kid, written by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng.” The title looks like it has been printed by a child in different colored crayons. Beneath the title is a group of fourteen kids, illustrated in ink and watercolor. Some look out at us; others talk, laugh, play or wave, having a busy, noisy good time.

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A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

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Three Wishes

Cover: In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and my Grandmother's Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari. Behind a layer of mustard yellow, a black-and-white photograph of the right two-thirds of a woman’s face is framed within a silhouette of a woman wearing a shalwar and kameez. The woman has dark hair and eyebrows and her expression is neutral. The title is centred in the middle of the cover and the author’s name is centered at the bottom.

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In Exile

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All Our Relations

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Dodge City

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Good Night, Sam

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

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Thrifty

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

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Temporary Palaces

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Together by the Sea

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

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Go

Cover: A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz. Artwork of two young women in seventeenth-century clothing. One leans on a window ledge, resting her chin on her hand and smiling, while the other peeks out from behind a curtain, holding a cloth to her face. The title and author’s name appear in large, white brush script.

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A Daughter's Place

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

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The Middle Stories

This image is a series of scenes. The scene above is a yellow photograph of a strip mall and a stoplight. Signs read, ÒDonuts, Muffins, CakesÓ and ÒGrocery StoreÓ. Two sections, one red and one yellow, with black polka dots, show the title. The scene below is a black and green image of the Toronto skyline on a red background. Text: Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta. Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist. ÒAn unforgettable debut.Ó Ð Paul Beaty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout.

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Frying Plantain

Wildful. Kengo Kurimoto. A young girl sits on a fallen log in the woods, with a black dog beside her. Branches and vines tangle together to form a canopy over their heads, and the silhouette of a deer is visible behind them. The girl has light skin tone, black hair in pigtails, and wears a striped shirt and black pants.

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Wildful

Cover: Great Silent Ballad: poems by A. F. Moritz. A Renaissance-style painting primarily features two figures, one playing a violin and the other playing a lute. The face of a third figure looks down and to the right at the bottom-left of the page, and the body of a fourth appears on the upper right section.

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Great Silent Ballad

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Mandaderos de la lluvia / Messengers of Rain

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Broughtupsy

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The Björkan Sagas

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What Are You Doing, Sam?

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This Is How We Love

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Stella and Sam ABC

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with "poems" appearing in white. In the center, a wolf springs forward, its head tilted toward the reader with a somewhat feral smile.

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Ultra Blue

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

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Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

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Letters to Kafka

Cover: Lantern, poems by Sanna Wani. Above a cream-coloured background, a forest green border is stamped. Inside the border are three ginko leaves stamped in various directions, as though falling. The text appears in cursive lettering.

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Lantern

Cover: Wellwater, poems by Karen Solie. Over an off-white background, the cover featured an illustration of a flowering lilac tree with a thin stem and visible roots.

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Wellwater

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These Festive Nights

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

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A Waiter in Paris

Cover: The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island. Written by Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A close-up of a bird’s head fills the page. The bird has a black neck, white face, orange beak and long, yellow tufts flowing from above its eye to behind its head. Behind it are three more tufted puffins sitting on a grassy cliff with the ocean and clear blue sky behind them. The illustrations are done in watercolor and pencil.

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The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island

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Cobalt

Cover: However Far Away by Rajinderpal S. Pal. A face and shoulders in purple with features obscured in shadow. The figure is wearing orange over-the-ear headphones and a green shirt. The words A Novel appear in white type across the green shirt. Text: A beautiful debut novel about the calamitous aftereffects of decisions made and unmade, secrets kept and spilled. Omar El Akkad.

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However Far Away

One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

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One Goal

Cover: “Burying the Moon. By Andrée Poulin and Sonali Zohra.” A girl with medium-dark skin tone stands in a field, facing away from us. The girl wears sandals and a blue dress over a white shirt, and her dark hair is braided. She holds a pick and stares at the big full yellow moon. There is a hole in the ground beneath the moon. The field and sky are shades of purple, blue and pink. There are swirls in the sky behind the moon.

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Burying the Moon

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

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Monster Mender

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

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I Make My Own Fun

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The Book of Birds

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Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

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Fly Away Home

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Read Me a Story, Stella

An open door shows the view into a living room with a bookshelf, a sitting chair, and a side table with cookies and milk on it. A girl with light skin tone and brown hair looks around the open door from inside the living room. She wears purple glasses, purple headphones, and a yellow-striped sweater. She carries a book with a yellow flower between the pages as a bookmark. When the title has a letter “I” it is dotted with this yellow flower. Text: Violet Shrink. Christine Baldacchino. Pictures by Carmen Mok.

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Violet Shrink

This image is in shades of black and white. Six women hang upside down by their knees from a set of monkey bars. They each wear the same uniform of white shorts with a dark stripe and buttons down the side and a white short-sleeved sweater with a thick dark stripe across the chest. Each woman dangles their arms toward the ground. They all have light skin tone and dark hair. Text: Dunk Tank. Kayla Czaga.

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Dunk Tank

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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

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My Mom Is Like a Kite

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Mermaids and Ikons

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Stella, Star of the Sea

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My Grief, the Sun

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Ninan

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

Cover: The Outsmarters, by Deborah Ellis. A young girl leans against a tree trunk, looking back at a shed in a yard full of sunlit grass. She has light skin tone and chin-length hair, and she and the tree are shadowed in the foreground. Across the yard, an orange cat sits on top of the worn shed and returns her gaze. A roulette wheel is propped against the falling-apart shed wall. A fence lines the background, with trees behind it against a light blue sky.

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The Outsmarters