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.
Frontenac House
Canada
2021
Impact Statement
Bob Stallworthy
2021
Let This Lake Remember
Joan Shillington
2021
Nautilus and Bone
Lisa Richter
2021
Plausible Wrong Answers
Tyler B. Perry
2021
Very Bright, Almost Pretty
Alex Williamson
2020
Against Forgetting
Keith Garebian
2020
Baddie One Shoe
Natalie Meisner
2020
Common Brown House Moths
Laura Zacharin
2020
pressure cooker love bomb
Sharanpal Ruprai
2020
Waterline Immersion
Conrad Scott
2019
Night Flying
Laurie Fuhr
2019
Nouveau Griot
Tanya Evanson
2019
Rooster, Dog Crow
Jim Nason
2019
Ruba'iyat In The Time Of Apricots
Basma Kavanagh
2018
A Tincture of Sunlight
Vivian Hansen
2018
The Riparian
Lisa Pasold
2018
Walking Through Turquoise
Laurie MacFayden
2017
Blood Orange
Heidi Garnett
2017
Cemetary Compost
Murray Reiss
2017
Silent Sister: the mastectomy poems
Beth Everest
2017
Stampede and the Westness of West
Aritha van Herk
2017
The Bone Weir
D. S. Stymeist
2016
Changelings
Cassy Welburn
2016
Niche
Basma Kavanagh
2016
Two Minds
Harold Rhenisch
2015
Designation Youth
David Bateman
2015
Folding the Wilderness Within
Joan Shillington
2015
kissing keeps us afloat
Laurie MacFayden
2015
Open Letter
Sheri-D Wilson
2015
Seva
Sharanpal Ruprai
2014
A Bitter Mood of Clouds
Vivian Hansen
2014
Incarnate
Juleta Severson-Baker
2014
Music Garden
Jim Nason
2014
Reckless Toward Blossoming
Deborah Lawson
2014
Whirr & Click
Micheline Maylor
2013
33 Million Solitudes
Ali Riley
2013
Any Bright Horse
Lisa Pasold
2013
Goddess Gone Fishing for A Map of the Universe
Sheri-D Wilson
2013
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J. Fisher
2013
tis pity
David Bateman
2013
Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority Report
Kevin Irie
2012
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Alexis Kienlen
2012
Forgetting the Holocaust
Ron Charach
2012
Love in a handful of dust
Kirk Ramdath
2012
Narcissus Unfolding
Jim Nason
2012
The Rider with Good Hands
Sid Marty
2012
Unruly Angels
Diane Buchanan
2012
Yes
Rosemary Griebel
2011
[sic]
Nikki Reimer
2011
Attenuations of Force
Lori Cayer
2011
Children of Ararat
Keith Garebian
2011
Confessions of An Empty Purse
S. McDonald
2011
Ex Nihilo
D. A. Adebe
2011
Fallacies of Motion
William Nichols
2011
Falling Blues
Jannie Edwards
2011
Learning to Count
Douglas Burnet Smith
2011
Standoff Terrain
Jocko Benoit
2011
White Shirt
Laurie MacFayden
2010
details from the edge of the village
Pierrette Requier
2010
Fifth World Drum
Anna Marie Sewell
2010
Things that Matter Now
Bob Stallworthy
2010
Untitled Child
Nancy Jo Cullen
2009
Autopsy of a Turvy World
Sheri-D Wilson
2009
Pavlov's Elephant
Rosalee van Stelten
2009
she is reading her blanket with her hands
Sharron Proulx-Turner
2009
Water Strider
Karen Hofmann
2009
Wiser Pills
Richard Stevenson
2008
Contrary Infatuations
Dymphny Dronyk
2008
Impersonating Flowers
David Bateman
2008
She Dreams In Red
Alexis Kienlen
2008
The Bride Anthology
Patria Rivera
2007
A Bad Year for Journalists
Lisa Pasold
2007
A Summer Father
Joanna M. Weston
2007
bulletin from the low light
J. Fisher
2007
Pearl
Nancy Jo Cullen
2007
Taqsim
Zaid Shlah
2007
Tear Down
Ali Riley
2007
The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar
Ven Begamudre
2006
Between the Silences
Diane Buchanan
2006
Invisible Foreground
David Bateman
2006
Puti/White
Patria Rivera
2006
Re:Zoon
Sheri-D Wilson
2005
Angel Blood: The Tess Poems
Kevin Irie
2005
Death Day Erection
J. Fisher
2005
Optics
Bob Stallworthy
2005
Weave
Lisa Pasold
2004
A Gloss on our Painted Gods
Eric Barstad
2004
Dinner at Madonna's
Kevin Irie
2004
Wayward
Ali Riley
2003
Before a Blue Sky Moon
Weyman Chan
2003
guys named Bill
2003
Science Fiction Saint
Nancy Jo Cullen
Futurepoem Books
United States
2021
The Nancy Reagan Collection
Maxe Crandall
2021
Wild Peach
S*an D. Henry-Smith
2017
Of Being dispersed
Simone White
2017
The Sissies
Evan Kennedy
2016
Solar Maximum
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
2010
Poems of the Black Object
Ronaldo V. Wilson
2006
Mad Science in Imperial City
Shanxing Wang
2003
Some Mantic Daemons
Garrett Kalleberg
Gaspereau Press
Canada
2021
Anthesis: A memoir
2021
Dumuzi
Christopher Patton
2021
Gaptoothed
Robin Durnford
2021
Murmurations
Annick MacAskill
2020
Boom Time
Lindsay Bird
2020
Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
Monica Kidd
2020
One Dog Town
Dominique Béchard
2020
The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology
Karen Houle
2020
Under The Gamma Camera
Madeline Bassnett
2020
Year of the Metal Rabbit
Tammy Armstrong
2019
Ghost Estates: A Snakeskin Seminar
Sean Howard
2019
No Meeting Without Body
Annick MacAskill
2019
this kind of thinking does no good
Alison Smith
2019
Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book
Christopher Patton
2018
Everything Weve Loved Comes Back to Find us
Allan Cooper
2018
Linger, Still
Aislinn Hunter
2018
Mischief
John Terpstra
2018
Penelope
2018
The Merchant of Venice (Retried)
George Elliott Clarke
2017
Gold
George Elliott Clarke
2017
Half Rock
Half Rock Durnford
2017
In the Small Hours
Erin Brubacher
2017
Leviathan
Carmine Starnino
2017
some nights it's entertainment; some other nights just work
Matt Robinson
2017
The News
Rob Taylor
2017
The Photographer's Last Picture
Sean Howard
2015
And I Alone Escaped to Tell You
Sylvia D. Hamilton
2015
Generations Re-merging
Shalan Joudry
2015
Peeling Rambutan
Gillian Sze
2014
Brilliant Falls
John Terpstra
2013
Distill?
Basma Kavanagh
2013
Handfuls of Bone
Monica Kidd
2013
John Stokes' Horse
Peter Sanger
2012
Incitements
Sean Howard
2012
Red
George Elliott Clarke
2011
A Short History of Forgetting
Paul Tyler
2011
I Do Not Think That I Could Love A Human Being
Johanna Skibsrud
2011
The Annotated Bee and Me
Tim Bowling
2010
Lean-To
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen
2010
The Muskwa Assemblage
2010
This Way Out
Carmine Starnino
2009
During
Karen Houle
2009
Late Nights with Wild Cowboys
Johanna Skibsrud
2008
Actualities
Monica Kidd
2008
Broken Vessel: Thirty-five Days in the Desert
Harry Thurston
2008
The Alma Elegies
Allan Cooper
2008
Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path
George Elliott Clarke
2007
Aiken Drum
Peter Sanger
2007
Fathom
Tim Bowling
2007
Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems
John Terpstra
2007
Types of Canadian Women, Volume Two
K. I. Press
2006
A Ship Portrait
Harry Thurston
2006
Change in a Razor-backed Season
Michael deBeyer
2006
Gravity's Plumb Line
Ross Leckie
2006
Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
2005
Gabriel's Wing
Allan Cooper
2005
Spine
K. I. Press
2005
The Year One
David Helwig
2005
With English Subtitles
Carmine Starnino
2004
Disarmament
John Terpstra
2004
Midgic
Douglas Lochhead
2004
Quebecite
George Elliott Clarke
2004
Six Mats and One Year
Alison Smith
2003
Rural Night Catalogue
Michael de Beyer
2003
Viaticum
Heather Pyrcz
2002
Drunkard's Path
Deanna Young
2002
Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke
2002
Singing The Flowers Open
Allan Cooper
2001
If Men Lived on Earth
Harry Thurston
GBP George Boughton Publishing
United Kingdom
2014
Journey in shades - poetry in light and dark
Mary Pargeter
Geest-Verlag
Germany
2023
Nature is Calling for Peace
Ruth Esther Gilmore
2023
This is the Year of Hope and Peace
Ruth Esther Gilmore
2021
braving life in these uncertain times
Ruth Esther Gilmore
George Braziller, Inc.
United States
2006
Makes You Stop and Think
Daniel Hoffman
2002
final poems
Wendy Barker,
Saranindranath Tagore,
Rabindranath Tagore
Ginninderra Press
Australia
2021
Inside the Room
Judy Rafferty
2021
Terminally Poetic
Ouyang Yu
2018
A Gathering of Light
Maggie Slattery
2011
Braided Lands
John Leonard
2007
Mythica
Sarah Tiffen
2005
Parker & Quink
Jennifer Compton
Giramondo Publishing
Australia
2021
Family Trees
Michael Farrell
2018
I Love Poetry
Michael Farrell
2017
False Nostalgia
Aden Rolfe
2017
Word Migrants
Hazel Smith
2016
Cocky's Joy
Michael Farrell
2016
Inside My Mother
Ali Cobby Eckermann
2014
Ephemeral Waters
Kate Middleton
2014
Unbelievers, or 'The Moor'
John Mateer
2013
Autoethnographic
Michael Brennan
2013
First Light
Kate Fagan
2013
Open Sesame
Michael Farrell
2013
Prepare the Cabin for Landing
Alan Wearne
2011
Pirate Rain
2010
Eighth Habitation
Adam Aitken
2010
Storm and Honey
Judith Beveridge
2008
An Illustrated History of Dairies
Joanne Burns
2008
Not Finding Wittgenstein
J. S. Harry
2004
The sleep of a learning man
Anthony Lawrence
2004
Wolf Notes
Judith Beveridge
Gival Press
United States
2021
The Miracle Machine
Matthew Pennock
2020
Meteor
C. M. Mayo
2010
Voyeur
Rich Murphy
Glagoslav Publications
United Kingdom
2019
The Sonnets
Charles S. Kraszewski,
Adam Mickiewicz
2018
Conversations before Silence
Michael Naydan,
Oles Ilchenko
2017
Shards from the Polar Ice: Selected Poems
John Farndon,
Olga Nakston,
Lydia Grigorieva
2016
Gnedich
Elena Dimov,
Maria Rybakova
Global Fraternity of Poets
India
2020
Drizzle in the Desert
O. P. Arora
2014
echo?
Indira Babbellapati