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Griffin Poetry Prize ぐりふぃんししょう

Edition 25 (2025)

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Karen Leeder かれん りーだー Winner

This selected volume surveys two decades of German poetry, layering historical echoes, dream fragments, and the memory of cities. Its blend of intellectual play and melancholy vision shows the wide reach of contemporary European poetry.

Through the echoes of history and fragments of dream, it reveals the depth of contemporary German poetry.

186 pages
contemporary German poetryhistory and memorydreamstranslated poetry
translator and scholar

A British translator and scholar of German literature. She won the Griffin Poetry Prize for a translated selection of poems from German.