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.
Cormorant Books
Canada
2025
Summerin Furnished Rooms
Marc Plourde
2022
The Infinite Park
Peter Unwin
2022
Who We Thought We Were As We Fell
Michael Lithgow
2020
The Gods of East Wawanosh
Marilyn Gear Pilling
2020
We Were Like Everyone Else
Ken Victor
2019
Building on River
Jean van Loon
2019
Giacometti's Girl
Sandra Davies
2016
Catullus's Soldiers
Daniel Goodwin
2016
Crossover
M. Travis Lane
2015
Light takes
Mia Anderson
2015
Looking east over my shoulder
Jill Jorgenson
2015
When we were old
Peter Unwin
2014
A Bee Garden
Marilyn Gear Pilling
2014
A Rhythm to Stand Beside
Jack Hannan
2014
All the Daylight Hours
Amanda Jernigan
2014
Hungry
Daniel Sarah Karasik
2013
Ash Steps
M. Travis Lane
2013
The Port Inventory
Donald McGrath
2013
Tilt
E. Blagrave
2013
Waking in the Tree House
Michael Lithgow
2012
No End in Strangeness
Bruce Taylor
2012
Some Frames
Jack Hannan
2012
The Jonas Variations: A Literary S
George Jonas
2012
The Other Side of Ourselves
Rob Taylor
Cornerstone Press/Portage Poetry
USA
2025
Sadness of the Apex Predator
Dion O’Reilly
2024
Bone Country
Linda Nemec Foster
2023
Naming the Ghost
Emily Hockaday
2020
The Almost-Children
Cassondra Windwalker
Coteau Books
Canada
2019
A Calendar of Reckoning
Dave Margoshes
2019
One-Way Ticket
Robert Currie
2019
Sedley
Chelsea Coupal
2018
breathing at dusk
Beth Goobie
2017
Burning in this Midnight Dream
Louise Bernice Halfe
2017
Ceremony of Touching
Karen Shklanka
2016
The Days Run Away
Robert Currie
2015
In the Tiger Park
Alison Calder
2015
The Trouble with Beauty
Bruce Rice
2014
Masham Means Evening
Kanina Dawson
2011
Interruptions in Glass
Tracy Hamon
2010
Sumac's Red Arms
Karen Shklanka
2009
My Human Comedy
Gerald Hill
2009
Prairie Kaddish
Isa Milman
2008
The Crooked Good
Louise Bernice Halfe
2008
Wolf Tree
Alison Calder
2007
Embracing Brings You Back
Pat Clifford
2007
Lying to Our Mothers
Katherine Lawrence
2007
Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
Daniel Scott Tysdal
2007
Running in Darkness
Robert Currie
2007
Stones Call Out
Pamela Porter
2006
Just Living
William Robertson
2005
Blue Marrow
Louise Bernice Halfe
2005
Personal Effects
Michael Bradford
2005
slow curve
Jeanne Marie De Moissac
2005
The Gift of the Hawk
Randy Lundy
2004
The Illustrated Statue of Liberty
Bruce Rice
2004
Trout Stream Creed
David Carpenter
2004
What My Body Knows
Lynda Monahan
2002
At Geronimo's Grave
Armand Garnet Ruffo
2002
Ring Finger, Left Hand
Katherine Lawrence
2002
Silk Routes of the Body
Judith Krause
2002
The Man from Saskatchewan
Gerald Hill
2002
The Names Leave the Stones: Poems New & Selected
Steven Michael Berzensky
2001
A Blue with Blood in it
Elizabeth Philips
Counterpoint Press
United States
2001
Speech! Speech!
Geoffrey Hill
2001
What Was Lost
Herbert Morris
Creativity Commons Collective and Press
Canada
2008
Uninhabiting the Violence of Silencing: activations of creativity, ethics and resistance
Fabiola Bahiy ya Nabil Naguib
Cross-Cultural Communications
United States
2015
Sacred and Scared
Jerzy Gregorek
2015
The Shy Hand of a Jew: Poems by Maurycy (Mosze) Szymel
Aniela Gregorek (Tr.),
Jerzy (Tr.),
Maurycy (Mosze) Szymel
2014
The Shy Hand of a Jew
Aniela Gregorek (Tr.),
Jerzy (Tr.),
Maurycy Szymel