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 (Tr.),
Veronique Tadjo
2007
The angel of Rain
Greg Simon (Tr.),
Steven F. White (Tr.),
Gaston Baquero
2007
The Museum of Natural History
Julie Gamberg
2006
The Sleep Accusations
Randall Watson
ECW Press
Canada
2024
Farhang: Book One
Patrick Woodcock
2024
Frank's Wing
Jacob McArthur Mooney
2024
Pink Moon
Roshan James
2024
Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking
Sadie McCarney
2023
If I Didn't Love the River
Robert Priest
2023
Quiet Night Think
Gillian Sze
2023
The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX
Bruce Whiteman
2023
The Most Charming Creatures
Gary Barwin
2022
Broken Dawn Blessings
Adam Sol
2022
Is This Scary?
Jacob Scheier
2022
Mere Extinction
Evie Christie
2022
Reinvention
Rik Emmett
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 (Tr.),
Dora Catalina Cocean (Tr.),
Liliana Spataru
2017
The Shaykh and the Novice
Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland
2014
The world at home
Clelia Ifrim (Tr.),
Clelia Ifrim
2013
About the Nature of Soul
Clelia Ifrim (Tr.),
Clelia Ifrim
EGW Publishing, Inc.
USA
2024
Poetry, a Beautyr
Livingston Rossmoor
2022
Rumi Inspiration
Livingston Rossmoor