The winner will be announced on November 2nd, 2023 at the Arrowsmith fall book launch.
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, "You Can Be the Last Leaf" translated by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
Tara Bergin "Savage Tales" (Carcanet Press)
Emily Berry, "Unexhausted Time" (Faber & Faber)
Julia Cimafiejeva, "Motherfield" Translated by Valzhyna Mort & Hanif Abdurraqib (Deep Vellum)
Krystyna Dąbrowska, "Tideline" translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Mira Rosenthal, Karen Kovacik (Zephyr Press)
Jacques Darras, "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems" translated by Richard Sieburth (World Poetry Books)
Zaffar Kunial, "England’s Green" (Faber & Faber)
Arji Manuelpillai, "Improvised Explosive Device" (Penned in the Margins)
Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want To Die" (Princeton University Press)
Susan Musgrave, "Exculpatory Lilies" (Penguin Random House - McClelland & Stewart)
Don Paterson, "The Arctic" (Faber & Faber)
Sue Sinclair, "Almost Beauty" (Goose Lane Editions - Icehouse Press)
Ko Ko Thett, "Bamboophobia" (Zephyr)
Mosab Abu Toha, "Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear" (City Lights Booksellers & Publishers)
Nachoem Wijnberg, "Nachoem M. Wijnberg" translated by David Colmer (New York Review Books)