The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's youngest and most lucrative poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin a wealthy owner of auto part manufacturing companies. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in English. Each winner receives $40 000 dollars.
Canada:
- Winner:
- Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
- Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
- Other Nominees:
- Dionne Brand, thirsty
- P.K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New
- Winner:
- Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel
- Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel
- Other NomineesL
- 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
Canada:
- Winner:
- Christian Bök, Eunoia
- Christian Bök, Eunoia
- Other Nominees:
- Eirin Moure, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
- Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
- Winner:
- Alice Notley, Disobedience
- Alice Notley, Disobedience
- Other Nominees:
- Victor Hernández Cruz, Maraca
- Christopher Logue, Homer: War Music
- Les Murray, Conscious and Verbal
Canada:
- Winner:
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
- Other Nominees:
- Robert Bringhurst, Nine Visits to the Mythworld
- Don McKay, Another Gravity
- Winner:
- Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
- Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
- Other Nominees:
- Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, translation of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
- Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
- Les Murray, Learning Human
