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.
Capilano University Editions
Canada
2009
Beautiful Lies
Edward Byrne
2009
Counterfeit
Christine Leclerc
Carcanet Press
United Kingdom
2024
Before We Go Any Further
Tristram Fane Saunders
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2024
Child Ballad
David Wheatley
2024
For the Unnamed
Fred D’Aguiar
2024
From Our Own Fire
William Letford
2024
Hard Drive
Paul Stephenson
2024
Infinite In Finite
Andrew Wynn Owen
2024
Latch
Rebecca Goss
2024
Late Gifts
Richard Price
2024
More Sky
Joe Carrick-Varty
2024
Something, I Forget
Angela Leighton
2024
Swimming Between Islands
Charlotte Eichler
2024
Switch. The Complete Catullus
Isobel Williams (Tr.),
Catullus
2024
The Coming Thing
Martina Evans
2024
The Fourth Sister
Laura Scott
2024
The Grid
Eli Payne Mandel
2024
The House of the Interpreter
Lisa Kelly
2024
The Recycling
Joey Connolly
2024
Ventriloquise
Ned Denny
2022
American Mules
Martina Evans
2022
Eat or We Both Starve
Victoria Kennefick
2022
Field Requiem
Sheri Benning
2022
Forty Names
Parwana Fayyaz
2022
Like a Tree, Walking
Vahni Capildeo
2022
Mother Muse
Lorna Goodison
2022
On the Way to Jerusalem Farm
Carola Luther
2022
the clarity of distant things
Jane Duran
2022
Thinking with Trees
Jason Allen-Paisant
2022
Virga
Togara Muzanenhamo
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
André Naffis-Sahely (Tr.),
Abdellatif Laabi
2017
Dirt
Billy Letford
2017
Dog Star Notations
Bill Coyle (Tr.),
Hakan Sandell
2017
Herne The Hunter
Peter McDonald
2017
Holy Toledo!
John Clegg
2017
Measures of Expatriation
Vahni Capildeo
2017
Muddy River
J. Kates (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Fawzi Karim
2012
Raptors
Judith Wilkinson (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
2022
Oh You Robot Saints!
Rebecca Morgan Frank
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
Catchfire Press
2001
Backyard Cosmos
Robin Loftus
CavanKerry Press
United States
2023
A Half-Life
David S. Cho
2023
But I Still Have My Fingerprints
Dianne Silvestri
2023
Dialect of Distant Harbors
Dipika Mukherjee
2023
In the River of Songs
Susan Jackson
2023
Mausoleum of Flowers
Daniel B. Summerhill
2023
Tanto Tanto
Marina Carreira
2022
Deke Dangle Dive
Gibson Fay-Le Blanc
2022
Her Kind
Cindy Veach
2022
Pelted By Flowers
Kali Lightfoot
2022
Uncertain Acrobats
Rebecca Hart Olander
2022
Wonderama
Catherine Doty
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 S. 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
USA
2024
Mountain Amnesia
Gale Marie Thompson
2024
Susto
Tommy Archuleta
2023
Daughters of Harriet
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
2023
Human is to Wander
Adrian Lürssen
2022
Study of the Raft
Leonora Simonovis
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
Cerah Budaya Indonesia
Indonesia
2022
A Passionate Soul
Nate Lutkinsky (Tr.),
Denny JA
2022
Bread for the Heart
Nate Lutkinsky (Tr.),
Denny JA
2022
In the Name of Love
Nate Lutkinsky (Tr.),
Denny JA
Červená Barva Press
United States
2024
No Time for Death
Harris Gardner
2017
Secret Letter
Marc Vincenz (Tr.),
Erika Burkart
2016
Becoming an Ancestor: Poems
Lucille Lang Day
2009
The Season of Love
Flavia Cosma (Tr.),
Charles Siedlecki (Tr.),
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