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.
Five Islands Press
Australia
2020
Recipes for the Disaster
Gareth Sion Jenkins
2016
This Intimate War: Gallipoli 1915
Robyn Rowland
2015
Beds for all Who Come
Susan Bradley Smith
2015
Kin
Anne Elvey
2015
Now You Shall Know
Jennifer Compton
2014
Double Glaze
Steve Brock
2013
Another Fine Morning in Paradise
Michael Sharkey
2013
The Sunlit Zone
Lisa Jacobson
2012
The Brokenness Sonnets I-III & Other Poems
Mal McKimmie
2012
This Floating World
Libby Hart
2012
Vishvarupa
Michelle Cahill
2011
Possession
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
2010
The Adoption Order
Ian McBryde
2008
Mr Wittgenstein's Lion
Kevin Brophy
2008
Nowhere To Go
Alan Loney
2008
The Sweeping Plain
Michael Sharkey
2008
Transit
Mike Ladd
2008
Uncommon Light
Brook Emery
2008
Uplands
Louise Crisp
2007
Sea Wall and River Light
Diane Fahey
2007
Silence and its tongues
Robyn Rowland
2006
Poetileptic
Mal McKimmie
2005
Calico Ceilings: The Women of Eureka
Susan Kruss
2004
Days in White
Angelika Fremd,
Ingeborg Bachmann
2004
Misplaced Heart
Brook Emery
2004
The Man and the Map
Alex Skovron
2002
Darker and Lighter
Geoff Page
2002
Equatorial
Ian McBryde
2002
Fiery Waters
Robyn Rowland
2002
Fishwife
Meredith Wattison
2002
The Sixth Swan
Diane Fahey
2002
What the painter saw in our faces
Peter Boyle
2001
And dug my fingers in the sand
Brook Emery
2001
Behind The Moon
Jacob G. Rosenberg
2001
Each Clear Night
Marcella Polain
Flood Editions
United States
2016
Net Needle
Robert Adamson
2016
Time Down to Mind
Graham Foust
2015
Life
Elizabeth Arnold
2015
The Open Secret
Jennifer Moxley
2005
Pastorelles
John Taggart
Flowerfield & Littleman
Canada
2002
Where Gods Do Not Suffer From Overcrowding
Donia Blumenfeld Clenman
FlowerSong Press
United States
2021
Corta la Piel/It Pierces the skin
Sandra Kingery,
Xánath Caraza
2021
Pearl
Tom Murphy
2021
She Lives in Music
Andrea Vocab Sanderson
Flowertopia Studio
Canada
2019
The Poetry of Pot
Dallas R. Bader
2019
Undefeated Relevance
Honey Novick
Fomite Press
United States
2018
Under the Influence: Shoutin' Out to Wait
J. C. Ellefson
2017
Among the Lost
Seth Steinzor
2012
Loosestrife
Greg Delanty
Fordham University Press
United States
2021
My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites
S. Brook Corfman
2019
Xamissa
Henk Rossouw
2018
Rotary Devotion
Gary Keenan
2016
Cyclorama
Daneen Wardrop
2016
On Generation & Corruption
Terrance Chiusano
2015
Errings
Peter Streckfus
2014
Fannie & Freddie: The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography
Amy Sara Carroll
Four Way Books
United States
2021
Between Lakes
Jeffrey Harrison
2021
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Tommye Blount
2021
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
John Murillo
2021
Let It Be Broke
Ed Pavlic
2021
The Life Assignment
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
2021
You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love
Yona Harvey
2020
Birches
Carl Adamshick
2020
Days of Our Lives
Joan Aleshire
2020
Erou
Maya Phillips
2020
Here
Sydney Lea
2020
In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame
Julia Guez
2019
Blood Labors
Daniel Tobin
2019
How He Loved Them
Kevin Prufer
2019
You Darling Thing
Monica Ferrell
2018
Please Bury Me in This
Allison Benis White
2018
Unfathoming
Andrea Cohen
2017
From Nothing
Daniel Tobin
2017
god's breath hovering across the waters
Henry Israeli
2017
How the End Begins
Cynthia Cruz
2017
No Doubt the Nameless
Sydney Lea
2017
Off Message
Joel Brouwer
2017
The Halo
C. Dale Young
2017
Travels of Marco
Mark Levine
2016
Bastards of the Reagan Era
Reginald Dwayne Betts
2016
Furs Not Mine
Andrea Cohen
2016
Lighting the Shadow
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
2016
Longevity
Laurel Blossom
2016
Repetition
Rebecca Reilly
2016
The Cumulus Effect
J. Mae Barizo
2016
The Names of Birds
Daniel Wolff
2016
Tidal
Josh Kalscheur
2014
Hemming the Water
Yona Harvey
2014
I Was Thinking of Beauty
Sydney Lea
2014
Unpeopled Eden
Rigoberto Gonzalez
2013
Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin
Patrick Donnelly
2013
The Glimmering Room
Cynthia Cruz
2013
Woman Without Umbrella
Victoria Redel
2012
Bad Daughter
Sarah Gorham
2012
Black Blossoms
Rigoberto Gonzalez
2012
In a Beautiful Country
Kevin Prufer
2012
Of Gods and Strangers
Tina Chang
2012
Torn
C. Dale Young
2012
Young of the Year
Sydney Lea
2011
Belated Heavens
Daniel Tobin
2011
Fimbul-Winter
Debra Allbery
2011
Ignatz
Monica Youn
2011
The Nervous Filaments
David Dodd Lee
2010
And So
Joel Brouwer
2010
The Plath Cabinet
Catherine Bowman
2010
What the Right Hand Knows
Tom Healy
2009
National Anthem
Kevin Prufer
2003
New Messiahs
Henry Israeli
2002
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Noelle Kocot
2001
Leaving Xaia
D. Nurske
2001
The Theory and Function of Mangoes
George Kalamaras
Francis Boutle Publishers
United Kingdom
2021
A Speech of Birds
Victoria Field
2021
Seven Songs of Decline
Margaret Jull Costa,
Analuisa Amaral,
Mario de Sa-Carneiro
2021
The Last Model
Jayde Will,
Ligija Purinasa,
Raibis,
Ingrida Tarauda
Freehand Books
Canada
2018
What the Soul Doesn't Want
Lorna Crozier
2011
Here Is Where We Disembark
Clea Roberts
Freehand Books/Broadview Press
Canada
2013
Shortlisted
2010
Harmonics
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
2010
subUrban Legends
Joan Crate
2009
It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems
Jeanette Lynes
Freight Books
United Kingdom
2018
Black Cart
Jim Carruth
2016
Killochries
Jim Carruth
2016
The Green Dress Whose Girl is Sleeping
Russell Jones
2016
Tonguit
Harry Giles
Fremantle Press
Australia
2015
Emptiness: Asian Poems 1998-2012
John Mateer
2015
Sack
John Kinsella
2015
Swamp: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain
Nanci Chinna
2006
The Well Mouth
Philip Salom
2003
Hothouse
Tracy Ryan
2003
Loanwords
John Mateer
2002
A Cretive Live
Philip Salom
2002
Halfway Up The Mountain
Dorothy Hewett
2002
The Hierachy of Sheep
John Kinsella
2001
Barefoot Speech
John Mateer
2001
Equations
Wendy Jenkins
2001
Parochial
Mark Reid