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.
Durvile Publications Ltd.
Canada
2019
Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation
Chief R. Stacey Laforme
Dusie Press
United States
2013
Manhater
Danielle Pafunder
2013
Virgina or the mud-flap girl
Elizabeth Treadwell
East African Educational Publishers
2001
Song For The Sun In Us
Okello Oculi
Eastern Washington University Press
United States
2010
Boys Whistling Like Canaries
Jorn Ake
2010
Lip
Kathy Fagan
2009
My Piece of the Puzzle
Doren Robbins
2009
This Dirty Little Heart
B. T. Shaw
2007
Red Earth/Laterite
Peter S. Thompson,
Veronique Tadjo
2007
The angel of Rain
Greg Simon,
Steven F. White,
Gaston Baquero
2007
The Museum of Natural History
Julie Gamberg
2006
The Sleep Accusations
Randall Watson
ECW Press
Canada
2021
Everything You Hold Dear
Jamie Sharpe
2021
Miscreations
Grant Loveys
2021
Riven
Catherine Owen
2020
Flourish
Jacqueline Turner
2020
Midlife Action Figure
Chris Banks
2019
A Generous Latitude
Lenea Grace
2019
Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers
Jason Freure
2019
Happinesswise
Jonathan Bennett
2019
Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy
Paul Vermeersch
2017
Jogging with the Great Ray Charles
Kenneth Sherman
2017
Slow States of Collapse
Ashley- Elizabeth Best
2017
You Can't Bury Them All
Patrick Woodcock
2016
Cut-up Apologetic
Jamie Sharpe
2016
Decline of the Animal Kingdom
Laura Clarke
2016
Diversion
George Murray
2016
The Pemmican Eaters
Marilyn Dumont
2015
Designated Mourner
Catherine Owen
2015
Don't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something
Paul Vermeersch
2015
Failure to Thrive
Suzannah Showler
2015
Intimate Letters: The Invisible World is in Decline, Book VII
Bruce Whiteman
2014
Ends of the Earth
Jacqueline Turner
2014
Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
Robin Richardson
2014
Letter from Brooklyn
Jacob Scheier
2014
Previously Feared Darkness
Robert Priest
2013
Animal Husbandry Today
Jamie Sharpe
2013
Echo Gods and Silent Mountains
Patrick Woodcock
2013
Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
Grant Loveys
2013
Whiteout
George Murray
2011
Against the Hard Angle
Matt Robinson
2011
Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms
George Murray
2011
The Semiconducting Dictionary (Our Strindberg)
Natalee Caple
2011
Watermelon Kindness
David Donnell
2002
A False Paradise
Brian Rigg
2002
Cometology
Stephen Brockwell
2002
Hamburger Valley, California
David McGimpsey
2002
Razovsky at Peace
Stuart Ross
2002
Slip
Sina Queyras
2002
Torontology
Stephen Cain
2001
Some Late Adventure of the Feelings
Mark Sinnett
ECW Press/a misFit book
Canada
2018
Bicycle Thieves
Mary di Michele
2018
Dazzle Ships
Jamie Sharpe
2018
Panicle
Gillian Sze
2018
Quick
George Murray
2018
The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory
Chris Banks
2017
the Blomidon Logs
Deidre Dwyer
2012
Civil and Civic
Jonathan Bennett
2012
The Anatomy of Clay
Gillian Sze
2012
The Flower of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems
Mary di Michele
2012
Winter Cranes
Chris Banks
2010
Paper Radio
Damian Rogers
2009
Augustine in Carthage and other poems
Alessandro Porco
2009
Reading the Bible Backwards
Robert Priest
2009
The North End Poems
Michael Knox
2009
wasps in a golden dream hum a strange music
Asher Ghaffar
2007
Play Out The Match
Michael Knox
2007
Seven Into Even
Jacqueline Turner
2007
The Invisible World Is In Decline
Bruce Whiteman
2006
Gutted
Evie Christie
2006
I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel
Jennifer LoveGrove
2006
no cage contains a stare that well
Matt Robinson
2006
The Jill Kelly Poems
Alessandro Porco
2005
Fruitfly Geographic
Stephen Brockwell
2005
Here is my street, this tree I planted
Jonathan Bennett
2005
How To Swallow A Pig
Robert Priest
2005
ruined stars
R. M. Vaughan
2004
Ashland
Gil Adamson
2004
Careful
Jacqueline Turner
2004
Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Selected & New Poems
Stuart Ross
2004
Know Your Monkey
Elyse Friedman
2004
Temptations for a Juvenile Delinquent
Sky Gilbert
2003
Blue Pyramids
Robert Priest
2003
Happyland
2003
how we play at it
Matt Robinson
2003
One Building in the Earth
Maggie Helwig
2003
The Dagger Between Her Teeth
Jennifer LoveGrove
2003
The Fat Kid
Paul Vermeersch
2003
The Natural History
Christopher Dewdney
2001
Burn
Paul Vermeersch
2001
His Life
Edge Books
United States
2021
FPO
Kevin Davies
2021
Mannerism
Deidre Kovac
2019
Shell Game
Jordan Davis
Edinburgh Univeristy Press/Polygon
2001
On The Undergroung
Rody Gorman
2001
The Powerlines
Gerrie Fellows
Edition Muta
United States
2013
Aperture Mirror
Douglas Blazek
2013
Gutting Cats in Search of Fiddles
Douglas Blazek
Editura Universitara
Romania
2019
Unknown Love
Adriana Vanau,
Dora Catalina Cocean,
Liliana Spataru
2017
The Shaykh and the Novice
Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland
2014
The world at home
Clelia Ifrim,
Clelia Ifrim
2013
About the Nature of Soul
Clelia Ifrim,
Clelia Ifrim
Ekstasis Editions
Canada
2021
Argentina poesia
Franci Louann
2021
Catching Desire
Carmelo Militano
2021
Conatus
Walter Hildebrandt
2021
Heart Work
Susan McCaslin
2021
Impromptu
Jude Neale
2021
In Praise of Small Mistakes
Lesley Choyce
2021
Lessons from Venice
Alisa Belanger,
Denise Desautels
2021
Little Guys
Scott Lawrance
2021
Morning Bafflement and Timeless Puzzlement
J. J. Steinfeld
2021
quarters
Frances Pope
2021
Replay 1943-1965
Stephen Scobie
2021
Skookum Raven
Heather Haley
2021
Sleep With Me: Lullaby for an Anxious Planet
Janet Vickers
2021
Songs of the North
Deborah L. Kelly
2021
The Eleventh Hour
Carolyn Marie Souaid
2021
The Nakedness Defense
Bill Wolak
2021
To Measure the World
Karen Shenfeld
2021
Uninterrupted
Gillian Harding-Russell
2021
Western Terrace
Allan Graubard
2021
When Conditions Are Right
Randy Kohan
2020
A Blooming
Jude Neale
2020
A Thousand Pieces
Jill Varley,
Joanne Morency
2020
Aftertime
Daniel G. Scott
2020
City of Beasts
Robert Martens
2020
In Formless Circumstance
Trevor Carolan
2020
It Began with a Story
Pelin Batu
2020
Letters from the Old Country
Ken Cathers
2020
Red in Black
2020
Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki Rooke
Manolis Aligizakis,
Katerina Anghelaki Rooke
2020
What the Dead Want
Paulette Claire Turcotte
2019
A Fragile Grace
Elizabeth Cunningham
2019
A Lamb
P. W. Bridgman
2019
A Visit to the Kafka Café
J. J. Steinfeld
2019
Crisp-Maned Bay
Nancy MacKenzie
2019
Homeless Memorial
John La Greca
2019
Night Blues
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Yolanda Villemaire,
Claude Beausoleil
2019
Presence
Duncan Regehr
2019
Random Excess
G. Scott
2019
Shared Motion: Science & Spirituality
Dvora Levin
2019
The Schedule of Loss
Valentina Cambiazo
2019
The Social Life of String
Len Gasparini
2019
These Elegies
D. C. Reid
2019
Woman with Camera
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Corinne Larochelle
2019
Words for the Traveler
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Hugues Corriveau
2018
A Year of Mornings
Andrea McKenzie Raine
2018
Blackfoot Country
Walter Hildebrandt
2018
Bothism
Tanya Evanson
2018
Climbing Knocknarea
Lesley Choyce
2018
Daring Touch
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Louise Cotnoir
2018
Hive
Randy Kohan
2018
Missing Pieces
Ken Cathers
2018
New Shoes on Scorched Earth
Donald Winkler,
Michel Albert
2018
On Love
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Jack Keguenne
2018
Persian Pony
Michael McClure
2018
Poems at my Doorstep
Ajmer Rode
2018
Romancing Eternity
Ilya Tourtidis
2018
Song of the Open Sea
Jill Varley,
Joanne Morency
2018
The Art of Disappearing
Patrice Desbiens
2018
The Bell You Hardly Hear
Marjorie Bruhmuller
2018
The DNA of NHL
Stephen Roxborough
2018
The False Mirror
Blaine Greenwood
2018
The Man Who Best Drew Women
Martin Gray
2018
The Medusa Glance
Manolis
2018
The Nakedness Defense
Bill Wolak
2018
The Water Poems
Candice James
2018
Wabakin, or Four Windows Onto Snow
Donald Winkler,
Celyne Fortin
2017
Fossil Light
Erling Friis-Baastad
2017
Gnarled Love
Daniel G. Scott
2017
Hush
Robert Martens
2017
Infinite Power
Janet Vickers
2017
Mack The Naif
Charles Noble
2017
News of the World
Irv Huck
2017
Poems from the Scythian Wild Field
Svetlana Ischenko,
Russell Thornton,
Dmytro Kremin
2017
Sails for Exile
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Yasmine Mariam Kloth,
Mona Latif-Ghattas
2017
Sieve of Light in the Pine Forest
Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay,
Karoly Fellinger
2017
The Golden Man
Pasquale Verdicchio,
Vivian Lamarque
2017
The Second Advent of Zeus
2017
The Stone Mason's Notebook
Carmelo Militano
2017
Toward the Rising Sun
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Robert Giroux
2017
We Are What We Love
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Bernard Pozier
2016
Black Cat in the Shadows
Blaine Greenwood
2016
Forty-Seven Stations for a Ravaged Town
Donald Winkler,
Jacques Rancourt
2016
I Travel the World
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Thierry Renard
2016
Images of Absence
Manolis
2016
Merging Dimensions
Candice James
2016
Now Time/Jetztzeit/Nunc Stans
Walter Hildebrandt
2016
Perfect Answers to Silent Questions
Tom Konyves
2016
Rain of Naughts
Randy Kohan
2016
Shimmer Report
Brian Campbell
2016
Stanzas
Stephen Scobie
2016
The Rising Vanish
Derek Robinson
2016
The Spirit of the Thing and the Thing Itself
D. C. Reid
2016
The Wind Under Our Footsteps
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Diane Regimbald
2016
Weeping Will Not Save The Stars
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Francois Guerrete
2015
A Private Mythology
Stephen Morrissey
2015
All Alone at the End of the World
Lesley Choyce
2015
Autumn Leaves
2015
Breathing Arizona
Stephen Bett
2015
Cordless
Thomas Raphael Verny
2015
Manhattan Poems
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Claudio Angelini
2015
Marlene Dietrich's Eyes
Isabella Colalillo Katz
2015
Morning After You
Carmelo Militano
2015
Ragged Light
Dvora Levin
2015
terrains
Daniel G. Scott
2015
The Big Thirst and Other Doggone Poems
Jim Christy
2015
The Body Vagabond: Selected Poems
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Martine Audet
2015
The Terror Chronicles
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Normand De Bellefeuille
2015
Words and The Stone
D’Alfonso,
Pierrette Micheloud
2014
A Dog Named Normal
Richard Stevenson
2014
Echoes from Pluto
Mike Doyle
2014
Hammers and Bells
Randy Kohan
2014
Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story
Michael Rothenberg
2014
Little Creatures
Robert Martens
2014
Penny-Ante Poems
Stephen Bett
2014
Potato Blossom Road
Brian Bartlett
2014
RedShift
Patrick White
2014
Silence is a Healing Cave
Yolande Villamaire
2014
Songs from the Hive
David Watmough
2014
Ubermensch
Manolis
2014
Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems
Manolis Aligizakis,
Yannis Ritsos
2014
You Shall Have No Other
D. C. Reid
2013
Collage
George Whipple
2013
For A Savage Love
A. F. Moritz,
Theresa,
Ludwig Zeller
2013
Impermanence
Janet Vickers
2013
Island In The Light
Richard Olafson
2013
Nostros and Algos
Manolis
2013
Of Amber Waters Woven
Neil B. Bishop,
Annick Perrot-Bishop
2013
The Rose in Winter
Tanya Kern
2012
Casting Out Nines
Richard Stevenson
2012
Cavafy: Selected Poems
Manolis Aligizakis,
Constantine P. Cavafy
2012
Re-Positioning
Stephen Bett
2012
Star with a Thousand Moons
Andrew Parkin
2012
The Time In Between?Adorno's Daemons
Walter Hildebrandt
2012
Touching Marble
Lala Heine-Koehn
2012
Vernal Equinox
Manolis
2011
Communion
Nancy MacKenzie
2011
In Long, Secret Rivers
Neil B. Bishop,
Annick Perrot-Bishop
2011
Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry
Joe Blades
2011
Scarecrow
Duncan Regehr
2011
The Seven Wonders of the Leg
George Whipple
2011
Triptych
Manolis
2010
Eyes and Ears on Boundary Bay
David Watmough
2010
Misshapenness
J. J. Steinfeld
2010
Muscle Memory
Linda Rogers
2010
Nuances
Manolis
2010
RLS: At the World's End
Stephen Scobie
2010
Split
Stephen Bett
2010
The Catch Club
John O. Thompson
2010
The Language of Water
Genine Hanns
2010
The Watchman's Dance
Mike Doyle
2010
Three Blocks West of Wonderland
Heather Susan Haley
2010
What It Means To Be Human
D. C. Reid
2010
Winnipeg from the Fringes
Walter Hildebrandt
2009
Coming Down the Pike
David Watmough
2009
Finding Louis O'Soup
Walter Hildebrandt
2009
Poetaster!
Leopold McGinnis
2009
Sass 'n Pass
Stephen Bett
2009
Sharav
Dvora Levin
2009
Shifting
Anne Swannell
2009
Straw Things
Charles Tidler
2009
The Discipline of Ice
Lesley Choyce
2009
The Emerald Hour
Richard Stevenson
2009
The Plastic Heart
John Carroll
2009
The Seduction of the Written Word
Lala Heine-Koehn
2008
1970: a novel poem
Elizabeth Rhett Woods
2008
Blues for the Grauballeman
Ken Cathers
2008
Hierarchy of Loss
Steven McCabe
2008
Kites
George Whipple
2008
Ordinary Days
Cornelia C. Hornosty
2008
Paper Trombones: notes on poetics
Mike Doyle
2008
splitting the heart
Janet Marie Rogers
2008
The Eye on Fire
A. F. Moritz,
Ludwig Zeller
2008
Wintering
Rosemary Blake
2007
3 Women
Stephen Bett
2007
A Broken Mirror, Fallen Leaf
Yvonne Blomer
2007
A Passionate Continuity
Elizabeth Mayne
2007
After the Ritual
Tom Henihan
2007
Elegy for a Poem Garden
George Melnyk
2007
Nocturnal Tonglen
Derek Hanebury
2007
Parallel Lines
Pam Galloway
2007
The Moon With Mars in her Arms
Carolyn Zonailo
2007
The Tiger Side of Night
Olga Costopoulos
2006
A Mother's String
Andrea McKenzie
2006
Jawbone
Steven McCabe
2006
One Stone
Barbara Pelman
2006
Shadowcatcher
Wendy Morton
2006
The Hunger
D. C. Reid
2006
Woman Arborescence
Neil B. Bishop,
Annick Perrot-Bishop
2005
Ave
Tanya Kern
2005
Between the Doorposts
Isa Milman
2005
High-Maintenance
Stephen Bett
2005
Revenge of the Optimist
Lesley Choyce
2005
The Absinthe of Desire
Elizabeth Rhett Woods
2005
The Company I Keep
Jordan Zinovich
2005
The Hunger
D. C. Reid
2005
Where the Land Gets Broken
Water Hildebrandt
2005
Woman in Dream
A. F. Moritz,
Ludwig Zeller
2004
The Wardrobe Mistress
Beatriz Hausner
2004
Undercover
Wendy Morton
2003
A Further Exile
Tom Henihan
2003
Celtic Highway
Trevor Carolan
2003
The Birdhouse, Or
Jamie Dopp
2003
The Gates of Even
John O. Thompson
2003
The Goddess In The Garden
Carolyn Zonailo
2003
The Secret Invasion of Bananas
Robert Priest
2003
There Are Many Ways
Peter Trower
2003
This Flesh, These Words
Sharon H. Nelson
2003
What's Between Us Can't Be Heard
Joelene Heathcote
2002
Cavatinas for Long Nights
Jim Christy
2002
Collected Poems
Eldon Grier
2002
Our Thang
Ted Joans
2001
Caution to the Wind
Lesley Choyce
2001
Conflicting Desire
2001
Light in Dark Objects
Brian Henderson