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.
University of New Mexico Press
United States
2018
Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project
John Canaday
2018
MEAN/TIME
Grace Bauer
University of Pittsburgh Press
United States
2018
Albatross
Dore Kiesselbach
2018
Darwin's Mother
Sarah Rose Nordgren
2018
For the Scribe
David Wojahn
2018
Let's All Die Happy
Erin Adair-Hodges
2018
Milk Black Carbon
Joan Naviyuk Kane
2018
Music for a Wedding
Lauren Clark
2018
No Way Out But Through
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
2018
On the Surface of Silence
Rachel Tzvia Back (Tr.),
Lea Goldberg
2018
Ornaments
David Daniel
2018
Scald
Denise Duhamel
2018
Spirit Boxing
Afaa Michael Weaver
2018
Talking Pillow
Angela Ball
2018
The Thin Wall
Martha Rhodes
2018
Waiting for the Light
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Vehicule Press/Signal Editions
Canada
2018
Siren
Kateri Lanthier
2018
Table Manners
Catriona Wright
2018
The Chemical Life
Jim Johnstone
Vintage/Chatto & Windus
United Kingdom
2018
A Herring Famine
Adam O’Riordan
2018
Kumukanda
Kayo Chingonyi
W. W. Norton & Company
United States
2018
Double Portrait
Brittany Perham
2018
Earthling
James Longenbach
2018
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
Ahmad Sadri (Tr.),
Ferdowski
2018
Square Inch Hours
Sherod Santos
2018
Sun in Days
Meghan O’Rourke
2018
The Odyssey
Emily Wilson (Tr.),
Homer
Wake Forest University Press
United States
2018
The Darkness of Snow
Frank Ormesby
2018
The President of Planet Earth
David Wheatley
Wave Books
United States
2018
In the Still of the Night
Dara Wier
2018
Of Mongrelitude
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2018
Royals
Cedar Sigo
2018
The Others
2018
While Standing in Line for Death
C. A. Conrad
Wayne State University Press
United States
2018
Rowing Inland
Jim Daniels
2018
The Bird-While
Keith Taylor
2018
The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory
Rae Paris
Wesleyan University Press
United States
2018
Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD
Gina Athena Ulysse
2018
In The Language of My Captor
Shane McCrae
2018
Let's Not Live on Earth
Sarah Blake
2018
semiautomatic
Evie Shockley
2018
The Complete Poetry of Aime Cesaire
Clayton Eshleman (Tr.),
A. James Arnold (Tr.),
Aime Cesaire
2018
The Lazarus Poems
2018
Trophic Cascade
Camille Dungy