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.
Chelsea Editions
United States
2017
The Rings of the Universe
Adria Bernardi,
Ubaldo de Robertis
2016
An Orchid Shining in The Hand
John Taylor,
Lorenzo Calogero
2016
Three Stills In The Frame
Steven Grieco,
Giorgio Linguaglossa
Chicory Blue Press
United States
2006
What if your mother
Judith Arcana
2005
The Love Word
Betty Buchsbaum
Cinco Puntos Press
United States
2020
Letters to Goya: Poems, Titles and Letters to the Dead
James Magee
2018
The Last Cigarette on Earth
Benjamin Alire Saenz
2015
Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary
Bobby Byrd
2010
Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
Ambar Past
2003
Elegies in Blue
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Cinnamon Press
United Kingdom
2007
& the concept of zero
Christopher Brooke
2007
Impossible Objects
Bill Greenwell
Cissus World Press
United States
2019
Songs of a Jealous Wind
Benjamin Kwakye
2018
Soul toSong
Benjamin Kwakye
2016
In the Company of The Muse
Dike Okoro
2016
Scrolls of the Living Night
Benjamin Kwakye
City Lights Publishers
United States
2024
Longlisted
2018
Shortlisted
2021
Every Day We Get More Illegal
Juan Felipe Herrera
2021
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
2021
Little Hill
Ali Warren
2021
Natch
Sophia Dahli
2018
Invocation to Daughters
Barbara Jane Reyes
2017
Mephistos and Other Poems
Michael McClure
2017
Save Twilight: Selected Poems
Stephen Kessler,
Julio Cortazar
2015
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books
Gillian Conoley,
Henri Michaux
2013
Time of Angels
George McWhirter,
Homero Aridjis
2009
State of Exile
Marilyn Buck,
Cristina Peri Rossi
2005
The Book of Jon
Eleni Sikelianos
2004
Nine Alexandrias
Ammiel Alcalay,
Semezdin Mehmedinović
2004
where river meets ocean
Devorah Major
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
United States
2021
Arena
Lauren Shapiro
2016
50 Water Dreams
Siwar Masannat
2016
Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles
Lee Upton
2016
Festival
Broc Rossell
2016
I Burned at the Feast: Selected Peoms of Asseny Tarkovsky
Philip Metres,
Dimitri Psurtsev,
Asseny Tarkovsky
2015
Stop Wanting
Lizzie Harris
2015
The Tulip-Flame
Chloe Honum
2011
Clamor
Elyse Fenton
2011
Mule
Shane McCrae
2011
Say So
Dora Malech
2011
Sum of Every Lost Ship
Allison Titus
2006
A Small Asymmetry
John Donoghue
2006
Metropolis Burning
Karen Kovacick
2005
Buffalo Head Solos
Tim Seibles
2005
Guide to Native Beasts
Mary Quade
2005
The Job of Being Everybody
Douglass Goetsch
Clouds of Magellan Publishing
Australia
2009
Now We Are Four
Petrina Barson
2009
The Mystery of Rosa Morland
Diane Fahey
co•im•press
United States
2021
america, MINE
Sasha Banks
2021
from a red barn
Katherine M. Hadeen,
Victor Rodriguez Nunex
2019
Of Death. Minimal Odes
Laura Cesarco Eglin,
Hilda Hilst
2019
Vision of the Children of Evil
Lucina Schell,
Miguel Angel Bustos
2016
Oxen Rage
Lisa Rose Bradford,
Juan Gelman
Coach House Books
Canada
2021
Entering Sappho
Sarah Dowling
2021
Swivelmount
2021
The Tower
Paul Legault
2020
The National Gallery
Jonathan Ball
2020
This is the Emergency Present
Vincent Pagé
2020
Unsun
Andrew Zawacki
2020
Vulgar Mechanics
K. B. Thors
2019
Anatomic
Adam Dickinson
2019
Lances All Alike
Suzanne Zelazo
2019
Midday at the Super-Kamiokande
Matthew Tierney
2019
Night Became Years
Jason Stefanik
2019
Obits
Tess Liem
2019
Sky Wri Tei Ngs
Nasser Hussain
2018
Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie
Jay Ritchie
2018
Common Place
Sarah Pinder
2018
Dead White Men
Shane Rhodes
2018
DrakkarNoir
2018
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
Linda Besner
2018
My Ariel
Sina Queyras
2017
3 Summers
Lisa Robertson
2017
In On The Great Joke
Laura Broadbent
2017
Magyarazni
Helen Hajnoczky
2017
Night + Ox
Jordan Scott
2017
Throaty Wipes
Susan Holbrook
2017
Whelmed
Nicole Markotic
2016
Ardour
Angela Carr,
Nicole Brossard
2016
Asbestos Heights
David McGimpsey
2016
Country Club
Andy McGuire
2016
Dear Leader
Damian Rogers
2016
Mission Creep
Joshua Trotter
2016
Otter
Ben Ladouceur
2016
The Xenotext: Book 1
2015
Broom Broom
Brecken Hancock
2015
Cinema of the Present
Lisa Robertson
2015
DOWN
Sarah Dowling
2015
Janey's Arcadia
Rachel Zolf
2015
M x T
Sina Queyras
2015
On Malice
2015
School
Jen Currin
2015
The Poetic Edda
Jeramy Dodds,
Anonymous
2014
A Pretty Sight
David O’Meara
2014
For Display Purposes Only
David Seymour
2014
Multitudes
Margaret Christakos
2014
Need Machine
Andrew Faulkner
2014
Needs Improvement
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2014
White Piano
2013
Cutting Room
Sarah Pinder
2013
Divide and Rule
Walid Bitar
2013
New Theatre
Susan Stendel
2013
Probably Inevitable
Matthew Tierney
2013
The Lease
Mathew Henderson
2013
The Politics of Knives
Jonathan Ball
2012
A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
Gabe Foreman
2012
Croak
Jenny Sampirisi
2012
Hypotheticals
Leigh Kotsilidis
2012
Li'l Bastard
David McGimpsey
2012
Match
Helen Guri
2010
Expressway
Sina Queyras
2010
Joy Is So Exhausting
Susan Holbrook
2010
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Lisa Robertson
2010
The Hayflick Limit
Matthew Tierney
2009
Blert
Jordan Scott
2009
Hagiography
Jen Currin
2009
The Laundromat Essay
Kyle Buckley
2009
Troubled
R. M. Vaughan
2009
What Stirs
Margaret Christakos
2008
Human Resources
Rachel Zolf
2008
Sitcom
David McKimpsey
2008
The Work of Days
Sarah Lang
2007
Lemon Hound
Sina Queyras
2007
The Theory of the Loser Class
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2007
Touch To Affliction
Nathalie Stephens
2007
Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Angela Rawlings
2006
American Standard/Canada Dry
Stephen Cain
2006
Portable Altamont
Brian Joseph Davis
2006
Sooner
Margaret Christakos
2006
The Refrigerator Memory
Shannon Bramer
2006
The World is a Heartbreaker
Sherwin Tjia
2005
Hello Serotonin
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2005
Said Like Reeds or Things
Mark Truscott
2005
The Sink House
Julia Williams
2005
The Ubiquitous Big
Ian Samuels
2004
A Painted Elephant
Jill Hartman
2004
Dislocations in Crystal
Michael Boughn
2004
Paper City
Nathalie Stephens
2004
Parlance
Suzanne Zelazo
2004
with wax
Derek Beaulieu
2003
Disturbances of Progress
Lise Downe
2003
Excessive Love Prostheses
Margaret Christakos
2003
Metropolis 16-29
Robert Fitterman
2003
Mycological Studies
Jay MillAr
2003
Seven Pages Missing Volume Two
Steve McCaffery
2003
The Mood Embosser
Louis Cabri
2002
At Issue
Karen MacCormack
2002
Busted
Catriona Shaw
2002
Lip Service
Bruce Andrews
2002
Seven Pages Missing: Volume One
Steve McCaffery
2001
A House of White Rooms
Helen Tsiriotakis
2001
A More Tender Ocean
Natalee Caple
2001
Fidget
Kenneth Goldsmith
2001
Spiral Agitator
Steve Venright