Griffin Poetry Prize ぐりふぃんししょう
Edition 22 (2022)
PoetryTranslationCanadianInternational
Winners
2 peopleThe Junta of Happenstance is a debut poetry collection that threads politics, migration, and chance through fragmentary imagery. With quiet anger and irony, it makes contemporary unease sharply visible.
A sharp-edged poetry collection where politics and contingency intersect.
103 pages
poetry collectionmigrationpoliticschance
Sho is an experimental poetry collection that uses Black vernacular, sonic repetition, and visual page design. It foregrounds bodily sensation and linguistic leaps, pushing poetry toward performance.
An experimental collection built to be read through sound and body.
104 pages
poetry collectionexperimental poetrysonic textureembodiment