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.
Catchfire Press
2001
Backyard Cosmos
Robin Loftus
CavanKerry Press
United States
2021
Eleanor
Gray Jacobik
2021
Rise Wildly
Tina Kelley
2021
Scraping Away
Fred Shaw
2021
Set in Stone
Kevin Carey
2021
The Snow's Wife
Frannie Lindsay
2020
Cracked Piano
Margo Taft Stever
2020
The Body at a Loss
Cati Porter
2020
Without My Asking
Robert Cording
2019
My Oceanography
Harriet Levin
2019
Rewilding
January Gill O’Neil
2018
A Car Stops and a Door Opens
Christopher Bursk
2018
Abloom & Awry
Tina Kelley
2018
Miss August
Nin Andrews
2017
Jesus Was a Homeboy
Kevin Carey
2017
Letters from Limbo
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2016
Esther
Pam Bernard
2016
Love's Labors
Brent Newsom
2016
Only So Far
Robert Cording
2016
Places I Was Dreaming
Loren Graham
2016
The Baby Book
Robin Silbergleid
2016
Unidentifying Sighing Objects
Baron Wormser
2015
Bar of the Flattened Heart
David Keller
2015
How They Fell
Annie Boutelle
2015
Misery Islands
January Gill O’Neill
2015
My Crooked House
Teresa Carson
2015
Same Old Story
Dawn Potter
2015
Spooky Action at a Distance
Howard Levy
2014
door of think skins
Shira Dentz
2014
The One Fifteen to Penn Station
Kevin Carey
2014
Where the Dead Are
Wanda S. Praisner
2013
American Rhapsody
Carole Stone
2013
Darkening The Grass
Michael Miller
2013
The Laundress Catches Her Breath
Paola Corso
2013
The One Fifteen to Penn Station
Kevin Carey
2012
Impenitent Notes
Baron Wormser
2012
Little Boy Blue
Gray Jacobik
2012
Neighborhood Register
Marcus Jackson
2012
Night Sessions
David Cho
2011
Descent
John Haines
2011
Divina Is Divina
Jack Wiler
2011
How the Crimes Happened
Dawn Potter
2011
Letters From A Distant Shore
Marie Lawson Fiala
2011
Walking with Ruskin
Robert Cording
2010
Losing Season
Jack Ridl
2010
Southern Comfort
Nin Andrews
2010
The Second Night of the Spirit
Bhisham Bherwani
2010
Underlife
January Gill O’Neil
2010
We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Pamela Spiro Wagner
2010
Without Wings
Laurie Lamon
2009
Bear
Karen Chase
2009
Elegy for the Floater
Teresa Carson
2009
The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making
Joan Cusack Handler
2008
Imago
Joseph O. Legaspi
2008
Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
Mark Nepo
2008
Through A Gate of Trees
Susan Jackson
2008
We Aren't Who We Are and this world isn't either
Christine Korfhage
2007
Against Which
Ross Gay
2007
Common Life
Robert Cording
2007
Fun Being Me
Jack Wiler
2007
The Silence of Men
Richard Jeffrey Newman
2004
A Gradual Twilight - An Appreciation of John Haines
Steven B. Rogers (Editor) Rogers
2004
Glorious
Joan Cusack Handler
2004
Life with Sam
Liz Hutner
2004
Silk Elegy
Sondra Gash
2004
The Origins of Tragedy
Kenneth Rosen
2004
The Palace of Ashes
Sherry Fairchok
CB Editions
United Kingdom
2017
Hunting the Boar
Beverley Bie Brahic
2017
The Further Adventures of the Lives of the Saints
Patrick Mackie
Cedar Hill Publications
United States
2002
The Prisons
Maggie Jaffe
2001
Body and Soul
Sharon Doubiago
Center For Literary Publishing at CSU
United States
2021
Dears, Beloveds
Kevin Phan
2021
Night Burial
Kate Bolton Bonnici
2021
The Minuses
Jami Macarty
2020
Furthest Ecology
Adam Fagin
2019
The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter
Gillian Cummings
2018
Escape Velocity
Bonnie Arning
2018
Instead of Dying
Lauren Haldeman
2017
&luckier
Christopher J. Johnson
2017
Exit Theater
Mike Lala
2017
House of Sugar, House of Stone
Emily Perez
2016
The Business
Stephanie Lenox
2012
The City She Was
Carmen Gimenez Smith
Cervena Barva Press
United States
2017
Secret Letter
Marc Vincenz,
Erika Burkart
2016
Becoming an Ancestor: Poems
Lucille Lang Day
2009
The Season of Love
Flavia Cosma,
Charles Siedlecki,
Flavia Cosma
CGS Inc. Press
2001
Teaching Love Life
Gwyn English Neilsen
Chameleon Press
China
2016
Hula Hooping
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
2015
Ancestral Worship
David McKirdy
2006
Accidental Occidental
David McKirdy
2005
Raincheck Renewed
Kavita Jindal
Chapel Street Editions
Canada
2021
What Once Was
Edward Lemond
2020
Daring to Hope at the Cliff's Edge
Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland
Chaplain Publishing
United States
2010
The New Centurion: A 21st Centure Christian Poetic
Morag Morrison
Chapman Publishing
2001
Wild Women of a Certain Age
Magi Gibson
2001
Ye Cannae Win
Janet Paisley
Chatoyant
United States
2004
Embellishments
Virginia Chase Sutton
2003
Some Grand Dust
William Minor
2001
And Today I Am Happy
Penny Cagan
2001
Out Here
Joseph Keller McNEILLY
Chatto & Windus
United Kingdom
2021
Antiemetic for Homesickness
Romalyn Ante
2021
Asleep and Awake
John Fuller
2021
Beethoven Variations
Ruth Padel
2021
Homie
Danez Smith
2021
Inmates
Sean Borodale
2021
The Candlelight Master
2021
The Martian's Regress
J. O. Morgan
2021
Tongues of Fire
Sean Hewitt
2020
Sleeping Letters
Marie-Elsa R. Bragg
2018
A Herring Famine
Adam O’Riordan
2018
Kumukanda
Kayo Chingonyi
2017
No Map Could Show Them
Helen Mort
2017
The Bone Flowers
John Fuller
2017
The Catch
Fiona Sampson
2017
The Catch
Fiona Sampson
2017
Tidings
Ruth Padel
2016
Gravel in My Shoe
John Fuller
2016
Loop of Jade
Sarah Howe
2016
Shingle Street
Blake Morrison
2015
Black Country
Liz Berry
2015
Learning to make an Oud in Nazareth
Ruth Padel
2015
The Dice Cup
John Fuller
2014
Coleshill
Fiona Sampson
2014
Division Street
Helen Mort
2013
The Mara Crossing
Ruth Padel
2006
A Shorter Life
Alan Jenkins
2006
We Were Pedestrians
Gerard Woodward
2005
The Soho Leopard
Ruth Padel
2003
Gilgamesh
Derrek Hines
2003
Now and For a Time
John Fuller
2003
Voodoo Shop
Ruth Padel
2001
Bloodlines
Fred D?AGUIAR
2001
The Drift
Alan Jenkins
Chaudiere Books
Canada
2016
Continua
Chris Turnbull
2016
Tatterdemalion
Jennifer Londry
2016
this
Andy Weaver
2016
Understander
N. W. Lea
2015
Garden
Monty Reid
2015
Kiki
Amanda Earl
2015
Singular Plurals
Roland Prevost
2011
Been Shed Bore
Pearl Pirie
2010
Soft Where
Marcus McCann
2008
Everything in Movies
Nicholas Lea
2008
Old Winter
Anne Le Dressay
2008
The Ottawa City Project
Rob McLennan
2007
Disappointment Island
Monty Reid
2007
movements in jars
Meghan Jackson