The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced its 2015 shortlist. The Canadian finalists are:
Congotronic, Shane Book (House of Anansi Press)
Blue Sonoma, Jane Munro (Brick Books)
The Hundred Lives, Russell Thornton (Quattro Books)
The International list:
Something Crosses My Mind, Eleanor Goodman, translated from the Chinese written by Wang Xiaoni (Zephyr Press)
Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance, Marek Kazmierski, translated from the Polish written by Wioletta Greg, Arc Publications
The Stairwell, Michael Longley (Jonathan Cape)
The Road to Emmaus, Spencer Reece (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)