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O Cidadan

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

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Poems for All the Annettes

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

Cover: Passengers by Michael Crummey. The words "passengers" and "poems," as well as the author's name, are stylized to form the shape of Newfoundland. The text is in black and red.

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Passengers

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Furious

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The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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This Accident of Being Lost

Cover: Taming Papa by Mylène Goupil. Translated by Shelley Tanaka. A young girl with medium-light skin tone and chin-length black hair sits at a table, looking into the distance with her chin in her hand. In front of her, there is a plate of mac and cheese, a glass of juice, some paper and a pen. Behind her, a man with medium-light skin tone and short black hair sits on a couch, watching TV. The room is dim. The window blinds are closed.

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Taming Papa

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Basic Black with Pearls

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The Honeyman Festival

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Winter

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Mai at the Predators' Ball

The Quiet Hunt: A Poem for Young Foragers. By Jean E. Pendziwol and Risa Hugo. A young girl lays on a hill with her head in her hands, her wicker basket next to her. She has medium-light skin tone, short brown hair, brown eyes and her nails painted red. She wears a white baseball t-shirt with red sleeves, red high-top sneakers and a pink baseball cap with a smiling sun. She gazes at a cluster of mushrooms with brown rounded tops and white stems.

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The Quiet Hunt

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The Librarianist

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 Exiles' Gallery

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

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

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The Circle Game

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Endings

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Fugue With Bedbug

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Like This

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Grant and Tillie Go Walking

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All Our Relations

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Museum of Bone and Water

Cover: A Horse at the Window by Spencer Gordon. A painting of a person with fire coming out of their head. They are wearing a black suit jacket. and holding a flaming flower.

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A Horse at the Window

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Technology and Empire

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Buddy and Earl

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The Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 Anthology

Cover: Theophylline, a poetic migration by Erín Moure. The cover has a sky blue background. The title on the the top third and the author's name on the bottom third are written in black. The subtitle, a poetic migration, is in yellow text, with a few smaller grey letters included so it can also read "an a-poretic migration." All the text repeats like an echo, with certain letters bleeding off the page and many letters reappearing below the main text.

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Theophylline

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

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Scientific Marvel

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

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Pigeon

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Ninan

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The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

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Read Me a Story, Stella

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The Break

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

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Great Expectations

Cover: In a Land Without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel. Black and white text of the title is set in a Soviet-era propaganda font. A small black illustration of a cat walking is in the middle-right of the page. The background is red.

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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

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The White Cat and the Monk

A gold birdcage is against an orange background. A light blue silhouette shows two birds on a branch in the cage. Text: We Two Alone. Jack Wang. “With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection.” Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer.

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We Two Alone

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Sequence

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The New Measures

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river woman

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I Wish I Could Draw

Cover: The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024: A Selection of the Shortlist. Amelia M. Glasser / Yuliya Ilchuk / Halyna Kruk / Jorie Graham / Ishion Hutinson / Ann Lauterbach / George McWhirter / Homero Aridjis. Edited by Albert F. Moritz. In the centre of the cover is a black and white image of a lush forrest.

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024

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The Educated Imagination

This image is abstract. Pink, red, blue, and green shapes form peaks and valleys. In each shape are markings that resemble flower petals in varies colours. Text: Celestial Bodies. Jokha Alharthi. The Man Booker International Prize 2019.

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Celestial Bodies

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The Best Kind of People

Two gold columns frame a stage. A brown mouse in a red and green suit jumps in the air with its arms raised and its eyes closed. In the air are a butterfly, a flower, and a leaf. Text: ¡Bravo, Chico Canta! ¡Bravo! Pat Mora y Libby Martinez. Illustraciones de Amelia Lau Carling.

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Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo!

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The Sisters Brothers

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Zagreb Cowboy

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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Methodist Hatchet

A man with light skin tone and brown hair does a handstand. He wears a black and yellow striped sweater and black pants. In front of him is a white dog. The background is a swirl of coloured stripes. Text: Your Turn, Adrian. Helena Öberg. Kristin Lidström.

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Your Turn, Adrian

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Gargoyles

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The Unmemntioable

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The Polymers

Cover: Midway, poems by Kayla Czaga. Most of the cover is taken up by the sky at dusk. The bottom edge of a steep hill leads into a still body of water. Near the shoreline is a lit-up Ferris wheel surrounded by a few RVs and strings of colourful lights.

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Midway

A black tree is against a yellow background. The tree has white fruit shaped like pears and black leaves. The silhouette of a girl and a chicken are in the tree sitting on a high branch. Text: How to Bee. Bren MacDibble.

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How to Bee

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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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Together by the Sea

Cover: Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin. A painted portrait shows a woman with medium-dark skin tone and black hair beating a drum. She wears a cream-coloured dress and stands before a red circle.

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Our Voice of Fire

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Cockroach

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Night Walk

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Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)

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No Stars in the Sky

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The City of Words

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French Exit

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

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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The Quiet

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Kapusta

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O Cadoiro

The Remembering Stone by Carey Sookocheff. A girl and an older man with light skin tone, and a white and brown dog, stand on the edge of a body of water, facing us. A stone the man has just thrown skips toward us. The girl has shoulder-length brown hair with a hair bow, and wears blue overalls, a long-sleeved white and grey striped shirt, and tan shoes. The man is bald with grey hair on the side of his head, and wears a brown cardigan over a white collared shirt, grey checked pants, and grey shoes.

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The Remembering Stone

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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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

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The Future of Capitalism

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The Breadwinner

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Testament

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

A woman with light skin tone holds a bow and arrow taught and ready for the release of the arrow. She aims the arrow toward a bullseye in the air above her. The background is red. Text: Moving Targets. Writing with Intent 1982-2004. Margaret Atwood. Introduction by Jeet Heer.

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Moving Targets

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The Bush Garden

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Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola

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Sidewalk Flowers

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The Withdrawal Method