Twenty-three writers from across Canada have been longlisted for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize .

The complete list is:

Oliphant Cemetery, Three Years Old by Nicole Boyce (Calgary)

Two Brothers by Chad Campbell (U.K.)

Thirty-Seven Degrees 三十七度 by J.L. Chen (Vancouver)

A Body of Water Running by Trina Das (Windsor, Ont.)

Current Life & Outer Space by Em Dial (Toronto)

Restless by natasha gauthier (New Westminster, B.C.)

Libations by Maura Halloran (Vancouver)

Assimilation For Interned Japanese-Canadians by Kevin Irie (Toronto)

Métis Road Allowance by Daniel Kim (Toronto)

Hold for the Next Available Me by Jennifer Manuel (Duncan, B.C.)

Mice, Toads, Peacocks and On a Misty Morning by the Saint Lawrence Beside Potted Pink, Purple, & Yellow Flowers, I Thi

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