Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a shortlist of five books for the 2024 prize.

The shortlisted titles were selected from a 10-book longlist announced last month. Three of the shortlisted titles are translations, and two of them are translations of the work of the late poets Nicolás Guillén and Tomaž Šalamun.

The finalists are:

• The Great Zoo by Aaron Coleman, translated from the Spanish written by Nicolás Guillén (University of Chicago Press/Phoenix Poets Series)
• Kiss the Eyes of Peace by Brian Henry, translated from the Slovenian written by Tomaž Šalamun (Milkweed Editions)
• Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005–2022  by Karen Leeder, translated from the German by Durs Grünbein (Seagull Books)
• Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
• Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)

This year’s jury read 578 books, including 47 works in translation from 20 different languages. The books were submitted by 219 publishers from 17 countries. The jury is comprised of Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels, Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird, and Polish poet, translator, and essayist Tomasz Różycki.

The winner will be named on June 4 at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings in Toronto. The winner of the $10,000 Canadian First Book Prize will be announced on May 21.