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The best books of poetry published in English around the world are honored annually with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest and most prestigious literary awards. Since its inception in 2001, the Griffin Poetry Prize has become internationally renowned. This incredible tenth anniversary anthology features some of the finest poems from the short-listed and winning collections of the past ten years, including works by Paul Muldoon, John Ashbery, A. F. Moritz, and many other extraordinary poets as selected by acclaimed poet and editor, Ken Babstock. Robert Hass, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate, introduces the collection. Royalties from the sales of the anthology are donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.