Previous Submissions
The Griffin Poetry Prize receives hundreds of entries from publishers around the world and the information is available in this database, which is updated in April annually.
BuschekBooks
Canada
2016
Delirium for Solo Harp
Nadine McInnis
2015
If suppose we are a fragment
Rob McLennan
2015
Light-carved Passages
Frances Boyle
2015
Under the Skin of War
Chantal Ringuet
2014
Jail Fire
Julie Robinson
2014
Winds and Strings
Colin Morton
2013
Hallelujah
Terry Ann Carter
2013
Phrases
E. D. Blodgett
2013
The Sound of Sunlight
Roger Nash
2012
a (short) history of I
Rob McLennan
2012
Insomnie Blues
Linda Frank
2012
Seasons of Blood
Henry Beissel
2012
Wretched Beast
Shelley Leedahl
2012
Yusuf and the Lotus Flower
2011
A Pirouette and Gone
E. D. Blodgett
2011
Arrivals and Departures
Nina Berkhout
2011
Ghost Music
Mark D. Dunn
2011
Matter's Music/Researches
Paul Kelley
2011
The Walnut-Cracking Machine
Julie Berry
2010
The Craving of Knives
Blaine Marchand
2010
The Horse Knows the Way
Dave Margoshes
2010
The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major
Colin Morton
2009
Aperture
Blaine Marchand
2009
Breathe Now
Phlip Arima
2009
Kahlo - The World Split Open
Linda Frank
2009
The Invisible Poem
E. D. Blodgett
2009
Threats of Intimacy
Ela Przybylo
2008
Aide-memoire
Ruth Roach Pierson
2008
Love & Tribal Baseball
Susan Andrews Grace
2008
Red Bird
Ian Roy
2008
Shattered Fanatics
A. Mary Murphy
2007
For Love of the City
Alan Reed
2007
Lithochronos
Kenneth LaRose,
Christensen & Flamand
2007
My Chimera
Michael Penny
2007
Occupational Sickness
Oana Avasilichioaei,
Nichita Stanescu
2007
Personal Peripherals
Jan Allen
2006
First Fire
Nadine McInnis
2006
Histories
R. D. Patrick
2006
Practices of Eternity
E. D. Blodgett
2006
Spring Garland
E. Russell Smith
2005
a scrupulous meanness
Shyamal Bagchee
2005
Blue Tile
Nicola Vulpe
2005
Frida: paint me as a volcano
Arlette Franciere,
Keith Garebian
2005
Past, Present: Tense?
Douglas Isaac
2005
The Thing With Feathers
Elizabeth Zetlin
2004
Across the Sun's Warp
Henry Beissel
2004
Apostrophes V: never born except within the other
E. D. Blodgett
2004
Dream Salvage
Jonathan Locke Hart
2004
Early Evening Pieces
Marianne Bluger
2004
Invisible Lines
Astrid Van der Pol
2003
Cobalt Moon Embrace
Linda Frank
2003
Dream China
Jonathan Locke Hart
2003
Midsummer Cut
Derk Wynand,
Dorothea Grunzweig
2003
The Dragon and the Pearl
Henry Beissel
2003
Where No Window Was
Ruth Roach Pierson
2002
And Once More Saw the Stars: Four Poems for Two Voices
Philip Page
2002
At the Bottom of the Garden
E. D. Blodgett,
Jacques Brault
2002
Instruments of Surrender
Christine Wiesenthal
2001
Blood Memory
Neile Graham
2001
Coastlines of the Archipelago
Colin Morton
2001
The Bridge
Christopher Levenson
Buttonwood Press
2001
Completing the Circle
Christian Knoeller
Caitlin Press
Canada
2021
Devolution
Kim Goldberg
2021
Lost Lagoon/lost in thought
Betsy Warland
2021
The Burden of Gravity
Shannon McConnell
2020
The Brightest Thing
Ruth Daniell
2019
Elemental
Kate Braid
2019
Paradise, Later Years
Marion Quednau
2017
Acquired Community
Jane Byers
2017
Eating Matters
Kara-lee MacDonald
2017
The Dirty Knees of Prayer
Timothy Shay
2016
Average Height of Flight
Beth Kope
2016
For Your Own Good
Leah Horlick
2016
He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car
Par
2016
Skeena
Sarah de Leeuw
2015
Dead Salmon Dialectics
Derrick Stacey Denholm
2015
Dreamland Theatre
Rob Budde
2015
love will burst into a thousand shapes
Jane Eaton Hamilton
2015
Steeling Effects
Jane Byers
2014
Black Liquor
Dennis Bolen
2013
Sit You Waiting
Kim Clark
2012
And See What Happens: The Journey Poems
Ursula Vaira
2012
Beautiful Mutants
Adam Pottle
2012
Versions of North
G. P. Lainsbury
2011
Understories
Al Rempel
2010
(flood basement
Jeremy Stewart
2010
Enter the Chrysanthemum
Fiona Tinwei Lam
2009
A Well-Mannered Storm
Kate Braid
2009
Lan(d)guage: A Sequence of Poetics
Ken Belford
2008
All Things Said & Done
Marita Dachsel
2008
Finding Ft. George
Rob Budde
2008
Soft Geography
Gillian Wigmore
Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions
Canada
2019
Playing into Silence
Tina Biello
2019
The Small Way
Onjana Yawnghwe
Calyx Books
United States
2007
Storytelling in Cambodia
Willa Schneberg
2001
Black Candle
Chitra B. Divakaruni
Canarium Books
United States
2013
You Are My Slave No Do What I Say
Anthony Madrid
2012
Moving Day
Ish Klein
Canongate Books
United Kingdom
2017
Gold from the Stone
Lemn Sissay
2017
Undying
Michel Faber
2016
The Sick Bag Song
Nick Cave
2015
Telling Tales
Patience Agbabi
Capilano University Editions
Canada
2009
Beautiful Lies
Edward Byrne
2009
Counterfeit
Christine Leclerc
Carcanet Press
United Kingdom
2021
Art of Escape
Mina Gorji
2021
As Best We Can
Jeffrey Wainwright
2021
Birdsong on Mars
Jon Glover
2021
Deformations
Sasha Dugdale
2021
Fury
David Morley
2021
Growlery
Katherine Horrex
2021
Heaven
James Womack,
Manuel Vilas
2021
Homunculus
James Womack
2021
In The Event
John Birtwhistle
2021
Later Emperors
Evan Jones
2021
Letters to America
Fred D’Aguiar
2021
Moving House
Theophilus Kwek
2021
Red Gloves
Rebecca Watts
2021
Squid Squad
Matthew Welton
2021
Sweet Nothings
Rory Waterman
2021
Tenderfoot
Chris Beckett
2021
The Air Year
Caroline Bird
2021
The Barbarians Arrive Today
Evan Jones,
C. P. Cavafy
2021
The Culture of My Stuff
Adam Crothers
2021
The Gifts of Fortune
Peter McDonald
2021
The Long Beds
Kate Miller
2021
Two Tongues
Claudine Toutoungi
2021
Wow
Bill Manhire
2020
A Kingdom of Love
Rachel Mann
2020
At the Brasserie Lipp
Michael Edwards
2020
City of Departures
Helen Tookey
2020
Donegal Tarantella
Moya Cannon
2020
Gaudent Angeli
Mary O’Malley
2020
Impossible Loves
Richard Gwyn,
Dario Jaramillo
2020
My Reef My Manifest Array
John Wilkinson
2020
Prophecy
Thomas McCarthy
2020
Significant Other
Isabel Galleymore
2020
Skin Can Hold
Vahni Capildeo
2020
So Many Rooms
Laura Scott
2020
Vital Stream
Lucy Newlyn
2019
Shrines of Upper Austria
Phoebe Power
2019
The Hotel Eden
Beverley Bie Brahic
2018
Crossing the Mirror Line
Judith Willson
2018
Farm by the Shore
Thomas A. Clark
2018
In Search of Dustie-Fute
David Kinloch
2018
In These Days of Prohibition
Caroline Bird
2018
Joy
Sasha Dugdale
2018
On Trust: A Book of Lies
James Womack
2018
Sarajevo Roses
Rory Waterman
2018
Seasonal Disturbances
Karen McCarthy Woolf
2018
Smoothie
Claudine Toutoungi
2018
Stack
James Davies
2018
The Little Sublime Comedy
John Gallas
2018
The Magic of What's There
David Morley
2018
The President of Planet Earth
David Wheatley
2018
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
Tara Bergin
2018
Zoology
Gillian Clarke
2017
Beyond the Barbed Wire
Andre Naffis-Sahely,
Abdellatif Laabi
2017
Dirt
Billy Letford
2017
Dog Star Notations
Bill Coyle,
Hakan Sandell
2017
Herne The Hunter
Peter McDonald
2017
Holy Toledo!
John Clegg
2017
Measures of Expatriation
Vahni Capildeo
2017
Muddy River
J. Kates,
Sergey Stratanovsky
2017
Number Poems
Matthew Welton
2017
Pandemonium
Thomas McCarthy
2017
Playing the Octopus
Mary O’Malley
2017
Poems without Irony
Alex Wong
2017
Quenettes
Philip Terry
2017
Serengeti Songs
Chris McCully
2017
Several Deer
Adam Crothers
2017
Skies
Alison Brackenbury
2017
Spills
Angela Leighton
2017
The Alexandra Sequence
John Redmond
2017
The Met Office Advises Caution
Rebecca Watts
2017
The Occupant
Jane Draycott
2017
Through
David Herd
2017
What Must Happen
Jeffrey Wainwright
2017
Winter Migrants
Tom Pickard
2016
Careful What You Wish For
Peter Sansom
2016
Poppies in Translation
Sujata Ghatt
2016
Portraits
Elaine Feinstein
2016
Steep Tea
Jee Leong Koh
2016
The World Before Snow
Tim Liardet
2015
Call Waiting
David C. Ward
2015
Coming Forth by Day
Gabriel Levin
2015
Gathering Evidence
Caoilinn Hughes
2015
Gumiguru
Togara Muzanenhamo
2015
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
Kei Miller
2015
The Weather Wheel
Mimi Khalvati
2015
Winter Moorings
Andrew McNeillie
2014
Her Birth
Rebecca Goss
2014
Late Poems
Thomas Kinsella
2014
No Tear Is Commonplace
Stanley Moss
2014
Oracabessa
Lorna Goodison
2014
Parallax
Sinead Morrissey
2014
The Italian Visitor
Grey Gowrie
2014
The Rose of Toulouse
Fred D’Aguiar
2014
Then
Alison Brackenbury
2014
This is Yarrow
Tara Bergin
2014
To The War Poets
John Greening
2014
Tonight The Summer Is Over
Rory Waterman
2013
All Just
David Herd
2013
Between Two Windows
Oli Hazzard
2013
Bevel
William Letford
2013
Constellations
Ian Pindar
2013
Fresh Air and The Story of Molecule
John Gallas
2013
Ice
Gillian Clarke
2013
Misprint
James Womack
2013
Otherwise Unchanged
Owen Lowery
2013
Paralogues
Evan Jones
2013
Rooster
Gerry McGrath
2013
Slowly, As If
Karen Press
2013
Small World
Richard Price
2013
The Greek Anthology Part XVII
Greg Delanty
2013
The Ninjas
Jane Yeh
2013
The Reasoner
Jeffrey Wainwright
2013
The Swerve
Julith Jedamus
2013
We Look Like This
Dan Burt
2012
Arguing with Malarchy
Carola Luther
2012
Emporium
Ian Pindar
2012
Plague Lands
Anthony Howell,
Fawzi Karim
2012
Raptors
Judith Wilkinson,
Toon Tellegen
2011
A Light Song of Light
Kei Miller
2011
Cities
Elaine Feinstein
2011
Enchantment
David Morley
2011
Forty Lies
John Gallas
2011
Jilted City
Patrick McGuinness
2011
Rough Music
Fiona Sampson
2009
King Driftwood
Robert Minhinnick
2007
Collected Poems 1986-2006
Greg Delanty
2005
A God's Breakfast
Frank Kuppner
2005
A Halfway House
Neil Powell
2005
Making the Beds for the Dead
Gillian Clarke
2005
Pastorals
Peter McDonald
2005
Something About
P. J. Kavanagh
2005
Star City
John Gallas
2005
The Canals of Mars
Patrick McGuinness
2005
Walking the Animals
Carola Luther
2004
A Map of the Territory
Nigel Forde
2004
Alstonefield: a poem
Peter Riley
2004
First of the Last Chances
Sophie Hannah
2004
In the Country of Birds
James Sutherland-Smith
2004
Manganese
Robert Saxton
2004
Manhandling the Deity
John F. Deane
2004
Notebook
Sasha Dugdale
2004
Skywriting
Charles Tomlinson
2004
The Book of Matthew
Matthew Welton
2004
The Book of Stones
Adam Schwartzman
2004
The Ship of Birth
Greg Delanty
2002
About Time Too
Peter Robinson
2002
Code
Eavan Boland
2002
Collected Poems
Thomas Kinsella
2002
Fathomsuns and Benighted
Ian Fairley,
Paul Celan
2002
Grass Script
Robert Gray
2002
In Cinnamon Shade
Dom Moraes
2002
The Bells of St Babel's
Allen Curnow
2002
The Word Pavillion: New & Selected Poems
Christopher Middleton
2002
Un Tour D'Ecosse
David Kinloch
2001
Augatora
Sujata Bhatt
2001
Dharmakaya
Paula Meehan
2001
Guinea Woman
Lorna Goodison
Carnegie Mellon University Press
United States
2021
Flourish
Dora Malech
2021
My Second Work
Bridget Lowe
2020
Brightword
Kimberly Barwick
2019
The Imaginal Marriage
Eleanor Stanford
2018
Kingdom
Joseph Millar
2018
Rowing with Wings
James Harms
2018
The Histories
Jason Whitmarsh
2017
Adult Swim
Heather Hartley
2015
How I Went Red
Maggie Glover
2006
Blindsight
Carol Vanderveer Hamilton
2006
Fallen from a Chariot
Kevin Prufer
2003
Keeping Time
Suzanne Cleary
Carolina Wren Press
United States
2014
Crowns of Charlotte
Lee Ann Brown
2014
Sacrilegion
L. Lamar Wilson
2012
Inside the Money Machine
Minnie Bruce Pratt
2007
a half-red sea
Evie Shockley
2007
White Boots: New & Selected Poems of the West
William Pitt Root