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.
Burning Bush Publications
2001
Antarctica
Patti Sirens
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 (Tr.),
Christensen & Flamand
2007
My Chimera
Michael Penny
2007
Occupational Sickness
Oana Avasilichioaei (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
Button Poetry
USA
2023
Never Catch Me
Darius Simpson
2023
Sweet, Young & Worried
Blythe Baird
2023
Urbanshee
Siaara Freeman
2022
You Better Be Lightning
Andrea Gibson
2019
Date & Time
Phil Kaye
2019
Lord of the Butterflies
Andrea Gibson
Buttonwood Press
2001
Completing the Circle
Christian Knoeller
C & R Press (Conscious & Responsible)
USA
2022
How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children
Quincy Scott Jones
Caitlin Press
Canada
2024
A Brief and Endless Sea
Barbara Pelman
2024
Absence of Wings
Arleen Paré
2024
Burning Sage: Poems from the Lytton Fire
Meghan Fandrich
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2024
Moorings
Christopher Levenson
2022
Breath, Like Water: An Anticolonial Romance
Norah Bowman
2022
with/holding: Poems
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