Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 /

Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 /

The finalists of the 2024 competition are being unveiled here … and after them, the winner!

Image credit: Irina Zhang, Old Factory on the Lachine Canal (2023)

The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readership, and to exploring the world’s Englishes.

The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology.

The prize is run by the Department of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Every year, jurors and finalists of the Montreal Prize share their work in Fluid Vessels, our online reading series. All are welcome to listen and join the discussion.

Order The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022, including the winner and all finalists.

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Previous Winners

2022

Glacier

by Claire Wahmanholm

2017

Caesura

by Erin Rodoni

2020

Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

by Victoria Korth

2015

38 Michigans

by Eva H.D.

2013

The Antenna

by Mia Anderson

2011

Walking Underwater

by Mark Tredinnick

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