Premio Griffin de Poesía

Canadá:

• Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours[4]
• Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
• Don McKay, Another Gravity

Internacional:

• Nikolai B. Popov y Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems from the German written by Paul Celan[5]
• Chana Bloch y Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open from the Hebrew written by Yehuda Amichai
• Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
• Les Murray, Learning Human

Jurado:

• Carolyn Forché
• Dennis Lee
• Paul Muldoon

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Gord Downie

Canadá:

• Christian Bök, Eunoia[6]
• Erin Mouré, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
• Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine

Internacional:

• Alice Notley, Disobedience
• Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
• Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
• Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal

Jurado:

• Dionne Brand
• Robert Creeley
• Michael Hofmann

Guest host at awards ceremony: Albert Schultz

Canadá:

• Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
• Dionne Brand, thirsty
• P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New

Internacional:

• Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
• Kathleen Jamie, Mr And Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994
• Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems
• C. D. Wright, Steal Away: selected and new poems

Jurado:

• Michael Longley
• Sharon Olds
• Sharon Thesen

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Heather McHugh

Canadá:

• Anne Simpson, Loop
• Di Brandt, Now You Care
• Leslie Greentree, go-go dancing for Elvis

Internacional:

• August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
• Suji Kwock Kim, Notes From the Divided Country
• David Kirby, The Ha-Ha
• Louis Simpson, The Owner of the House

Jurado:

• Billy Collins
• Bill Manhire
• Phyllis Webb

Canadá:

• Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
• George Bowering, Changing on the Fly
• Don McKay, Camber

Internacional:

• Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963-2003
• Fanny Howe, On the Ground
• Michael Symmons Roberts, Corpus
• Matthew Rohrer, A Green Light

Jurado:

• Simon Armitage
• Erin Mouré
• Tomaž Šalamun

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler

Canadá:

• Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
• Phil Hall, An Oak Hunch
• Erin Mouré, Little theatres

Internacional:

• Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
• Michael Hofmann, translation of Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems from the German written by Durs Grünbein
• Michael Palmer, Company of Moths
• Elizabeth Winslow, translation of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Jurado:

• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Lisa Robertson
• Eliot Weinberger

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Robin Blaser. Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Simon Armitage

Canadá:

• Don McKay, Strike/Slip
• Ken Babstock, Airstream Land Yacht
• Priscila Uppal, Ontological Necessities

International:

• Charles Wright, Scar Tissue
• Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames
• Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues
• Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga

Judges:

• John Burnside
• Charles Simic
• Karen Solie

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Tomas Tranströmer

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Matthew Rohrer

Canadá:

• Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser[7]
• Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, translation of Notebook of Roses and Civilization from the French written by Nicole Brossard
• David McFadden, Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden

Internacional:

• John Ashbery, Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
• Elaine Equi, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems
• Clayton Eshleman, translation of The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition from the Spanish written by Cesar Vallejo
• David Harsent, Selected Poems 1969-2005

Jurado:

• George Bowering
• James Lasdun
• Pura Lopez Colome

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Ko Un[8]

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Paul Farley

Canadá:

• A. F. Moritz, The Sentinel
• Kevin Connolly, Revolver
• Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds

Internacional:

• C.D. Wright, Rising, Falling, Hovering
• Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader
• Derek Mahon, Life on Earth
• Dean Young, Primitive Mentor

Judges:

• Saskia Hamilton
• Dennis O'Driscoll
• Michael Redhill

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: James Wood

Canadá:

• Karen Solie, Pigeon
• Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream
• P. K. Page, Coal and Roses

Internacional:

• Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Sun-fish
• John Glenday, Grain
• Louise Gluck, A Village Life
• Susan Wicks, translation of Cold Spring in Winter from the French written by Valérie Rouzeau

Judges:

• Anne Carson
• Kathleen Jamie
• Carl Phillips

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adrienne Rich

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Glyn Maxwell

Canadá:

• Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
• Suzanne Buffam, The Irrationalist
• John Steffler, Lookout

International:

• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Heavenly Questions
• Seamus Heaney, Human Chain
• Khaled Mattawa, translation of Adonis: Selected Poems from the Arabic written by Adonis
• Philip Mosley, translation of The Book of the Snow from the French written by Francois Jacqmin

Judges:

• Tim Lilburn
• Colm Tóibín
• Chase Twichell

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Yves Bonnefoy

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Jonathan Welstead, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Canadá:

• Ken Babstock, Methodist Hatchet
• Phil Hall, Killdeer
• Jan Zwicky, Forge

International:

• David Harsent, Night
• Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
• Sean O'Brien, November
• Joanna Trzeciak, translation from Polish of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz

Judges:

• Heather McHugh
• David O'Meara
• Fiona Sampson

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Seamus Heaney

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Alexander Gagliano, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Canadá:

• David McFadden, What's the Score?
• James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon
• Ian Williams, Personals

International:

• Fady Joudah, translation of The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems from the Arabic written by Ghassan Zaqtan
• Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen
• Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
• Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

Judges:

• Suzanne Buffam
• Mark Doty
• Wang Ping

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Kyla Kane, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: Pura López Colomé

Canadá:

• Anne Carson, Red Doc>
• Sue Goyette, Ocean
• Anne Michaels, Correspondences

International:

• Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
• Rachael Boast, Pilgrim's Flower
• Carl Phillips, Silverchest
• Mira Rosenthal, translation of Colonies from the Polish written by Tomasz Rozycki

Judges:

• Robert Bringhurst
• Jo Shapcott
• C.D. Wright

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adelia Prado

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Khalil Mair, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler

Canadá:

• Jane Munro, Blue Sonoma
• Shane Book, Congotronic
• Russell Thornton, The Hundred Lives

Internacional:

• Michael Longley, The Stairwell
• Eleanor Goodman, translation of Something Crosses My Mind from the Chinese written by Wang Xiaoni
• Marek Kazmierski, translation of Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance from the Polish written by Wioletta Greg
• Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
• Derek Walton, Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry, Lifetime Recognition Award[9]

Jurado:

• Tim Bowling
• Fanny Howe
• Piotr Sommer

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Derek Walcott

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Ayo Akinfenwa, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Canadá:

• Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent[10]
• Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, translation of Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments from the Danish written by Ulrikka S. Gernes
• Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood

Internacional:

• Norman Dubie, The Quotations of Bone[10]
• Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
• Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets
• Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven

Jurado:

• Alice Oswald
• Tracy K. Smith
• Adam Sol

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adam Zagajewski.[10]

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Marie Foolchand, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Canadá:

• Jordan Abel, Injun.[11]
• Hoa Nguyen, Violet Energy Ingots.
• Sandra Ridley, Silvija.

Internacional:

• Alice Oswald, Falling Awake [11]
• Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade
• Donald Nicholson-Smith, translation of In Praise of Defeat from the French written by Abdellatif Laabi
• Denise Riley, Say Something Back

Jurado:

• Sue Goyette
• Joan Kane
• George Szirtes

Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Frank Bidart.[12]

Guest performer at awards ceremony: David White, National Poetry In Voice recitation finalist

Canadá:

• Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World.
• Aisha Sasha John, I have to live.
• Donato Mancini, Same Diff.

Internacional:

• Susan Howe, Debths.
• Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven is All Goodbyes.
• Layli Long Soldier, Whereas.
• Natalie Shapero, Hard Child.

Jurado:

• Sarah Howe
• Ben Lerner
• Ian Williams

Lifetime Recognition Award (announced by the Griffin trustees) to Ana Blandiana.[13]

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Hamish Marissen-Clark, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Guest speaker at awards ceremony: August Kleinzahler.

Canadá:

• Eve Joseph, Quarrels
• Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
• Sarah Tolmie, The Art of Dying

Internacional:

• Don Mee Choi, Autobiography of Death, traducción al inglés de Kim Hyesoon.
• Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance.
• Daniel Borzutzky, Lake Michigan.
• Ani Gjika, Negative Space, traducción al inglés de Luljeta Lleshanaku.

Jurado:

• Ulrikka S. Gernes
• Kim Maltman
• Srikanth Reddy

Lifetime Recognition Award (announced by the Griffin trustees) to Nicole Brossard.[14]

Guest performer at awards ceremony: Catricia Hiebert, National Poetry In Voice recitation champion

Canadá:

• Kaie Kellough, Magnetic Equator
• Chantal Gibson, How She Read
• Doyali Islam, heft

Internacional:

• Sarah Riggs, Time, traducción al inglés por Etel Adnan.
• Abigail Chabitnoy, How to Dress a Fish
• Sharon Olds, Arias
• Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

Jurado:

• Paula Meehan
• Kei Miller
• Hoa Nguyen

Jurado:

• Ilya Kaminsky
• Ales Steger
• Souvankham Thammavongsa