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.
Eyewear Publishing
United Kingdom
2020
A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest
C. P. Mangel
2019
Barbarous Century
Leah Umansky
2019
Did You Put The Weasels Out
Niall Bourke
2019
Fealty
Ricky Ray
2019
Half-Open Door
James Finnegan
2019
Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer
Steve Kronen
2019
Immigrant
Usha Kishore
2019
Millennial Roost
Dustin Pearson
2019
Mute House
Gale Burns
2019
Ring Cycle
Alex Houen
2019
Secular Games
Alex Wylie
2019
The Displaced Children of Displaced Children
Faisal Mohyuddin
2019
The X of Y
Colin Dardis
2019
valid, virtual, vegetable reality
Rebecca Close
2019
we live in the newness of small differences
Sohini Basak
2018
American Purgatory
Rebecca Gayle Howell
2018
Dream - beauty - Psycho
Todd Swift
2018
Fight Songs
Cal Freeman
2018
Fortune Cookie
Jenna Clake
2018
Glenn Gould's Chair
Mandy Kahn
2018
Weemoed
Tim Dooley
2017
Four Points Fourteen Lines
Tony Chan
2017
Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship
Terese Svoboda
2017
Psalmody
Maria Apichella
2017
The Amazing Lost Man
Ben Parker
2016
Honey & Smoke
Sean Singer
2016
Hungerpots
Jacquelyn Pope,
Hester Knibbe
2016
Queen, Jewel, Mistress
Ruth Stacey
2015
Close Reading
Floyd Skloot
2015
For the Chorus
Keiran Goddard
2015
Math, Heaven, Time
Mandy Kahn
2015
Ship of the Line
Penny Boxall
2015
Skinless
Colette Sensier
2015
The Illuminated World
Jemma Borg
2015
Tree Language
Marion McCready
2015
What Things Are
Agnieszka Studzinska
2014
Bottled Air
Caleb Klaces
2014
Hotel Moonmilk
Sheila Hillier
2014
Illicit Sonnets
George Elliott Clarke
2014
Our Obsidian Tongues
David Shook
2014
To The Boneyard
Barbara Marsh
2013
Cape Town
Kate Noakes
2013
Dangerous Cakes
Elspeth Smith
2013
Eighteen Poems
Simon Jarvis
2013
Midwest Ritual Burning
Morgan Harlow
2013
Night Journey
Richard Lambert
Faber & Faber
United Kingdom
2024
Shortlisted
2016
Shortlisted
2012
Winner
2009
Shortlisted
2008
Shortlisted
2005
Winner
2002
Shortlisted
2021
After Fame
Sam Riviere
2021
Beowulf
Richard Hamer
2021
How To Fly
Barbara Kingsolver
2021
Loss
2021
Magnetic Field
Simon Armitage
2021
Randomly Moving Particles
Andrew Motion
2021
The Late Sun
Christopher Reid
2021
Wing
Matthew Francis
2021
Zonal
2020
Flèche
Mary Jean Chan
2020
Girlhood
Julia Copus
2020
Kingdomland
Rachael Allen
2020
Lines Off
Hugo Williams
2020
O Positive
Joe Dunthorne
2020
The Built Moment
Lavinia Greenlaw
2019
Anecdotal Evidence
Wendy Cope
2019
Black Sun
Toby Martinez de las Rivas
2019
Enter, Fleeing
Mark Ford
2019
Essex Clay
Andrew Motion
2019
Feel Free
Nick Laird
2019
Soho
Richard Scott
2019
Three Poems
Hannah Sullivan
2019
Us
Zaffar Kunial
2019
Who Is Mary Sue?
Sophie Collins
2018
Salt
2018
The Noise of a Fly
Douglas Dunn
2017
Pearl
Simon Armitage,
Unknown medieval poet
2017
The Seasons of Cullen Church
Bernard O’Donoghue
2017
Widening Income Inequality
2016
Happiness
Jack Underwood
2016
Kim Kardashian's Marriage
Sam Riviere
2016
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
2016
Peace Talks
Andrew Motion
2016
The Curiosities
Christopher Reid
2015
A Double Sorrow
Lavinia Greenlaw
2015
Fire Songs
2015
Gottfried Benn - Impromptus
Michael Hofmann,
Gottfried Benn
2015
I Knew the Bride
Hugo Williams
2015
Terror
Toby Martinez de las Rivas
2014
Dear Boy
Emily Berry
2014
Go Giants
Nick Laird
2014
Muscovy
Matthew Francis
2014
Ramayana
Daljit Nagra
2014
Six Bad Poets
Christopher Reid
2014
The Hotel Oneira
August Kleinzahler
2014
The Water Stealer
Maurice Riordan
2014
The Word on the Street
2013
81 Austerities
Sam Riviere
2013
Family Values
Wendy Cope
2013
Love's Bonfire
Tom Paulin
2013
Nonsense
Christopher Reid
2013
Out There
Jamie McKendrick
2013
The Customs House
Andrew Motion
2013
The Death of King Arthur
Simon Armitage
2013
The World's Two Smallest Humans
Julia Copus
2012
Family Values
Wendy Cope
2012
Farmers Cross
Bernard O’Donoghue
2012
Memorial
2012
Six Children
Mark Ford
2012
The Casual Perfect
Lavinia Greenlaw
2012
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!!
Daljit Nagra
2010
Rain
2010
The Embrace
Jamie McKendrick,
Valerio Magrelli
2010
The Striped World
Emma Jones
2010
West End Final
Hugo Williams
2009
Mandeville
Matthew Francis
2008
Collected Poems
Paul Auster
2008
Crocodiles and Obelisks
Jamie McKendrick
2008
Look We Have Coming To Dover!
Daljit Nagra
2008
On Purpose
Nick Laird
2008
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Simon Armitage,
Gawain Poet
2008
The Holy Land
Maurice Riordan
2007
Dear Room
Hugo Williams
2007
District and Circle
2007
Horse Latitudes
2007
Orpheus
Don Paterson,
Rilke
2007
Selected Poems
2007
The Bok of Whispers
Julie O’Callaghan
2007
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid
Simon Armitage
2006
Legion
2006
Logue's Homer - Cold Calls
2006
The Prodigal
Derek Walcott
2006
To A Fault
Nick Laird
2006
Woods etc.
2005
Blinking with Fists
Billy Corgan
2005
Cursing Bagels
Alfred Brendel
2005
The Road to Inver
Tom Paulin
2004
All Day Permanent Red
2004
For and After
Christopher Reid
2004
Ink Stone
Jamie McKendrick
2004
Landing Light
2004
Minsk
Lavinia Greenlaw
2004
New Selected Poems: Douglas Dunn
Douglas Dunn
2004
The Jupiter Collisions
Lachlan MacKinnon
2003
Dart
2003
Hugo Williams Collected
Hugo Williams
2003
Marriage
2003
Public Property
Andrew Motion
2003
The Invasion Handbook
Tom Paulin
2003
Universal Home Doctor
Simon Armitage
2002
Dragons
Matthew Francis
2002
If I Don't Know
Wendy Cope
2002
Tender Taxes
Jo Shapcott
2002
The Age of Cardboard & String
Charles Boyle
2001
Boss Cupid
Thom Gunn
2001
Floods
Maurice Riordan
2001
The Donkey?s Ears
Douglas Dunn
Faraxa Publishing
Malta
2015
A Land in the Storytelling Sea: a North American in Malta
Sheryl Loeffler
2015
In Her Element
Therese Pace
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
United States
2024
Longlisted
2024
Longlisted
2023
Shortlisted
2021
Winner
2016
Shortlisted
2015
Shortlisted
2014
Shortlisted
2012
Shortlisted
2011
Winner
2011
Shortlisted
2010
Shortlisted
2007
Shortlisted
2007
Winner
2006
Shortlisted
2004
Winner
2003
Winner
2002
Shortlisted
2001
Shortlisted
2021
Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley
2021
Blizzard
Henri Cole
2021
Here is the Sweet Hand
Francine J. Harris
2021
Snow Approaching on the Hudson
August Kleinzahler
2021
Sometimes I Never Suffered
Shane McCrae
2020
A Piece of Good News
Katie Peterson
2020
Moses and Lichens
Devin Johnston
2020
One Lark, One Horse
2020
Song of Songs
Sylvie Baumgartel
2020
The Gilded Auction Block
Shane McRae
2019
Asymmetry
Clare Cavanagh,
Adam Zagajewski
2019
Like
A. E. Stallings
2019
Peaches Goes It Alone
2019
Wild is the Wind
2018
Distant Mandate
Ange Mlinko
2018
So Where Are We?
Lawrence Joseph
2018
Some Say
Maureen McLane
2017
At the Foundling Hospital
Robert Pinsky
2017
House of Lords and Commons
2017
If You Can Tell
James McMichael
2017
Lacunae
Daniel Nadler
2017
Mz N: the serial
Maureen N. McLane
2017
Standing Water
Eleanor Chai
2017
The Swimmer
John Keothe
2017
Waiting for the Past
2017
Widening Income Inequality
2016
Far-Fetched
Devn Johnston
2016
Nothing to Declare
Henri Cole
2016
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
2016
Reconnaissance
2016
The Emperor of Water Clocks
2015
Accepting the Disaster
Joshua Mehigan
2015
All at Once
C. K. Williams
2015
Caribou
2015
Faithful and Virtuous Night
2015
I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
Eliza Griswold
2015
Once in the West
Christian Wiman
2015
This Blue
Maureen N. McLane
2014
Marvelous Things Overheard
Ange Mlinko
2014
Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
2014
Silverchest
2014
Song & Error
Averill Curdy
2014
The Hotel Oneira
August Kleinzahler
2014
The Word on the Street
2013
Nice Weather
2013
The Ground
2013
Writers Writing Dying
C. K. Williams
2012
Double Shadow: Poems
2012
Taller When Prone: Poems
2012
Touch: Poems
Henri Cole
2012
Traveler: Poems
Devin Johnston
2011
Canti
Jonathan Galassi,
giacomo Leopardi
2011
Every Riven Thing
Christian Wiman
2011
Maggot
2011
Vanishing Points
Jamie McKendrick,
Valeria Magrelli
2011
Wait
C. K. Williams
2011
White Egrets
Derek Walcott
2011
World Enough
Maureen McLane
2010
If I Were Another
Fady Joudah,
Mahmoud Darwish
2010
Sestets
2010
The Poetry of Rilke
Edward Snow,
Rainer Maria Rilke
2010
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
Seamus Heaney,
Robert Henryson
2009
Classical Chinese Poetry
David Hinton
2009
Eternal Enemies
Clare Cavanagh,
Adam Zagajewski
2009
King of A Hundred Horsemen
Marilyn Hacker,
Marie Etienne
2009
Same Life
Maureen N. McLane
2009
Warhorses
2009
Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
2008
Blackbird and Wolf
Henri Cole
2008
Gulf Music
Robert Pinsky
2008
Littlefoot
2008
Quiver of Arrows
2008
Wideawake Field
Eliza Griswold
2007
Averno
2007
Capacity
James McMichael
2007
Collected Poems
C. K. Williams
2007
District and Circle
2007
Horse Latitudes
2007
Selected Poems
James Fenton
2007
The Curved Planks
Hoyt Rogers,
Yves Bonnefoy
2006
Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos
Lawrence Joseph
2006
Into It
Lawrence Joseph
2006
Star Dust
Frank Bidart
2006
The Georgics of Virgil
David Ferry,
Virgil
2006
The Visible Man
Henri Cole
2005
Antigone
Seamus Heaney,
Sophocles’
2005
Buffalo Yoga
2005
Inner Voices
Richard Howard
2005
Music and Suicide
Jeff Clark
2005
Sonnets To Orpheus
Edward Snow,
Rainer Maria Bilke
2005
Streets in their Own Ink
Stuart Dybek
2005
Taboo
Yusef Komunyakka
2005
The Poetry of Petrarch
David Young,
Francesco Petrarca
2005
The Prodigal
Derek Walcott
2005
The Rest of Love
2005
The Unsubscriber
Bill Knott
2004
All Day Permanent Red
2004
Middle Earth
Henri Cole
2004
Poems the size of Photographs
2004
The Cosmos Trilogy
2004
The Singing
C. K. Williams
2003
A Short History of the Shadow
2003
Area Code 212
2003
Chinese Whispers
2003
Rock Harbour
2003
Selected Poems
Andrew Frisardi,
Giuseppe Ungaretti
2002
Collected Poems 1968-1998
2002
Life On Earth
2002
The Epistles of Horace
David Ferry
2002
The Tether
2001
Negative Blue
2001
Your Name Here
Fence Books
United States
2018
Hollywood Forever
Harmony Holiday
2018
Phrasis
Wendy Xu
2018
The Codex Mojaodicus
Steven Alvarez
2016
Ampersand Revisited
Simeon Berry
2016
Bitter Green
Martin Corless-Smith
2016
Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno
Ed Pavlic
2016
Sleeper Hold
Jibade-Khalil Huffman
2009
19 Names for Our Band
Jibade-Khalil Huffman
2009
Collapsible Poetics Theater
Rodrigo Toscano
2009
Rogue Hemlocks
Carl Martin
2009
Star In the Eye
James Shea
2009
The Method
Sasha Steensen
2009
The Orphan & Its Relations
Elizabeth Robinson
2009
Unspoiled Air
Kaisa Ullsvik Miller
2008
Bad Bad
Chelsey Minnis
2008
Infamous Landscapes
Prageeta Sharma
2008
Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain
Christopher Janke
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Canada
2021
Urbanities
Brooke Clarke
2020
Smallholding
Anne Compton
2019
A Violent Streak
Stephanie Warner
2019
Half-Life of Oracles
Sarah Feldman
2017
This Being: Poems
Ingrid Ruthig
2015
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar
Brian Bartlett
2014
Alongside
Anne Compton
2013
White Sheets
Beverley Bie Brahic
2011
& A Serial Poem
Daryl Hine
2010
asking questions indoors and out
Anne Compton
2009
Sky Atlas
Alan Wilson
2009
The Day in Moss
Eric Miller
2008
Crown and Ribs
Blaise Moritz
2008
Recollected Poems 1951-2004
Daryl Hine
2007
The Hermit's Kiss
Richard Teleky
2006
Maps of Invariance
John Smith
2006
Processional
Anne Compton
2006
Processional
Anne Compton
2005
Blue Iris
Mary Oliver
2005
Insects
Iain Deans
2005
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver
2004
Nothing Fell Today But Rain
Evan Jones