Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025 A Selection of the Shortlist

ANNE MICHAELS is a novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. Among many other honours, she is a Royal Society of Literature International Writer, a Guggenheim Fellow, has received honorary degrees, and has served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film and was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Novels that Shaped the World. Her latest novel,Held, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and won the 2024 Giller Prize.