Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

A Selection of the Shortlist

edited by Anne Michaels

In Too Deep

When Canadian Punks Took Over the World

by (author) Adam Feibel & Matt Bobkin

Soft as Bones

A Memoir

by (author) Chyana Marie Sage

A Daughter's Place

A Novel

by (author) Martha Bátiz

Welcome to the Neighbourhood

Stories

by (author) Clea Young

Widows and Orphans

by (author) Elizabeth Renzetti & Kate Hilton

Chinatown Vancouver

An Illustrated History

by (author) Donna Seto

Everything Is Fine Here

A Novel

by (author) Iryn Tushabe

The Creation of Half-Broken People

A Novel

by (author) Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Wellwater

Poems

by (author) Karen Solie

Shadow Price

Poems

by (author) Farah Ghafoor

Myth

by (author) Terese Mason Pierre

The Seated Woman

Poems

by (author) Clémence Dumas-Côté
translated by E.S. Taillon

One Foot on the Platform

A Rock 'N' Roll Journey

by (author) Peter Goddard
edited by J.A. Wainwright

The Immortal Woman

A Novel

by (author) Su Chang

The Riveter

A Novel

by (author) Jack Wang

We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

A Novel

by (author) Deni Béchard

Safekeeping

A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love

by (author) Chelene Knight
foreword by Ivan Coyote

Chrystia

From Peace River to Parliament Hill

by (author) Catherine Tsalikis

Others Like Me

The Lives of Women without Children

by (author) Nicole Louie

Dangerous Memory

Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed

by (author) Charlie Angus

Innie Shadows

translated by Olivia M. Coetzee

What I Mean to Say

Remaking Conversation in Our Time

by (author) Ian Williams

Who Will Bury You?

And Other Stories

by (author) Chido Muchemwa

Keep

A Novel

by (author) Jenny Haysom

Great Silent Ballad

Poems

by (author) A.F. Moritz

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

by (author) Cho Nam-Joo
translated by Jamie Chang

I Never Said That I Was Brave

A Novel

by (author) Tasneem Jamal

The Jesuit Disruptor

A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis

by (author) Michael W. Higgins

Toronto in 100 Beers

by (author) Steve Himel, Adin L. Wener, Tony Halmos & John Semley

Hair for Men

A Novel

by (author) Michelle Winters

My Grief, the Sun

Special Edition

by (author) Sanna Wani