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.
Godage & Brothers (Pvt) Ltd.
Sri Lanka
2018
Enigma of a Left-Behinder
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
Sleepless Nights Dreamless Days
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
Tales from Antiquity
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
The Harvest
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
White Lanterns
Thiagaraja Arasanayagam
2017
Word Kite
Jean Arasanayagam
2011
Mind Zones
Jean Arasanayagam
2010
Searching for an Ambalama
Jean Arasanayagam
2010
The Colour of My Mind
Jean Arasanayagam
Godine
United States
2018
Fair Sun
Susan Barba
2008
Toad to a Nightingale
Brad Leithauser
2003
The Abacus of Years
Emily Grosholz
Godine/Black Sparrow Books
United States
2021
geode
Susan Barba
2013
Wishbone
Don Share
2012
Well Then There Now
Juliana Spahr
2009
Metropolitan Tang
Linda Bamber
2002
Mercurochrome: New Poems
Wanda Coleman
2002
No Respect: New & Selected Poems 1964-2000
Gerard Malanga
2002
Skies
Eileen Myles
Gold Wake Press
United States
2020
Disappearing, Inc.
Brandon Amico
2013
Robinson Alone
Kathleen Rooney
Gomer Press
United Kingdom
2017
Ghosts
Ann Wigley
2013
Here and the Water
Sarah Coles
2008
Going Gentle
Fiona Owen
2008
Trouble in Heaven
John Barnie
2007
Hotel Gwales
Nigel Jenkins
Goose Lane Editions
Canada
2019
Amateurs at Love
Patricia Young
2019
Correspondent
Dominique Bernier-Cormier
2018
Smaller Hours
Kevin Shaw
2017
Dust or Fire
Alyda Faber
2015
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Stevie Howell
2015
Jonas in Frames: an epic
Chris Hutchinson
2015
Polari
John Barton
2013
Perfection
Patrick Warner
2013
Questions in Bed
Stewart Cole
2012
Apologetic For Joy
Jessica Hiemstra van der Horst
2012
Guesswork
Jeffery Donaldson
2012
Song of the Taxidermist
Aurian Haller
2011
For and Against
Sharon McCartney
2011
Swimming Ginger
Gary Geddes
2011
The Glassblowers
George Sipos
2011
The Scare in the Crow
Tammy Armstrong
2010
Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from the Odyssey
Brent MacLaine
2010
I & I
George Elliott Clarke
2010
One
Jo-Anne Elder,
Serge Patrice Thibodeau
2010
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Soraya Mariam Peerbaye
2010
True Concessions
Craig Poile
2009
Imperfect Penance
Mitch Parry
2009
The Watchmaker's Table
Brian Bartlett
2009
What if red ran out
Katia Grubisic
2008
Beatitudes
Jo-Anne Elder,
Herménégilde Chiasson
2008
Falsework
Gary Geddes
2008
The Sweet Fuels
Erin Knight
2007
Tacoma Narrows
Mitchell Parry
2007
Take Us Quietly
Tammy Armstrong
2007
Transformations
John Reibetanz
2006
Anything but the Moon
George Sipos
2006
In the Scaffolding
Eric Miller
2006
The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat
David Solway
2006
Where Sound Pools
Lynn Davies
2005
Skaldance
Gary Geddes
2005
The Drunken Lovely Bird
Sue Sinclair
2005
These Fields Were Rivers
Brent MacLaine
2005
What You Used to Wear
Charmaine Cadeau
2004
Karenin Sings the Blues
Sharon McCartney
2004
Wanting the Day: Selected Poems
Brian Bartlett
2003
Weathers: Poems New & Selected
Douglas Lochhead
2002
Certifiable
Pamela Mordecai
2002
Conversations
Jo-Anne Elder,
Fred Cogswell,
Herménégilde Chiasson
2001
She
Claire Harris
Goose Lane Editions/icehouse
Canada
2021
Everyone at This Party
Tanja Bartel
2021
In the Vicinity of Riches
Chris Hutchinson
2021
The Fool
Jessie Jones
2020
Crow Gulch
Douglas Walbourne-Gough
2020
Hymnswitch
Ali Blythe
2020
Soft Power
Stewart Cole
2020
These are not the potatoes of my youth
Matthew Walsh
2019
Ritual Lights
Joelle Barron
2019
To Live and Die in Scoudouc
Jo-Anne Elder,
Herménégilde Chiasson
Gordon Hill Press
Canada
2021
I know something you don't know
Amy LeBlanc
2021
Keeping Count
M. Travis Lane
2021
Night Lunch
Mike Chaulk
2021
Saturn Peach
Lily Wang
2020
unmeaningable
Roxanna Bennett
Grayson Books
United States
2015
Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War
Frederick Foote
2014
Blinding Light
Christine Beck
Graywolf Press
United States
2021
Catrachos
Roy G. Guzmán
2021
Cinderbiter
Martin Shaw,
Tony Hoagland
2021
Fugitive Atlas
2021
Guillotine
Eduardo C. Corral
2021
Homie
Danez Smith
2021
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
2021
That Was Now, This Is Then
Vijay Seshadri
2021
The More Extravagant Feast
Leah Naomi Green
2020
Be Recorder
Carmen Gimenez Smith
2020
Brute
Emily Skaja
2020
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
2020
Heed the Hollow
Malcolm Tariq
2020
I Will Destroy You
Nick Flynn
2020
Is, Is Not
Tess Gallagher
2020
Little Glass Planet
Dobby Gibson
2020
Love and I
2020
Oculus
Sally Wen Mao
2019
Eye Level
Jenny Xie
2019
House of Fact. House of Ruin
Tom Sleigh
2019
If You Have To Go
Katie Ford
2019
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God
Tony Hoagland
2019
Registers of Illuminated Villages
Tarifa Faizullah
2019
Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
Diane Seuss
2019
Wade in the Water
2018
A Doll for Throwing
Mary Jo Bang
2018
Advice from the Lights
Stephen Burt
2018
Afterland
Mai Der Vang
2018
Don't Call Us Dead
Danez Smith
2018
Lessons on Expulsion
Erika L. Sanchez
2018
Said Not Said
Fred Marchant
2017
Bestiary
Donika Kelly
2017
Blackacre
Monica Youn
2017
Look
Solmaz Sharif
2017
May Day
Gretchen Marquette
2017
Rapture
Sjohnna McCray
2017
Standoff
David Rivard
2017
The Darkening Trapeze
Larry Levis
2017
The Needle's Eye
2017
Window Left Open
Jennifer Grotz
2016
Application for Release from the Dream
Tony Hoagland
2016
Empy Chairs
Ming Di,
Jennifer Stern,
Liu Xia
2016
Four-Legged Girl
Diane Seuss
2016
My Feelings
Nick Flynn
2016
Selfish
Albert Goldbarth
2016
Station Zed
Tom Sleigh
2016
The Last Two Seconds
Mary Jo Bang
2015
Blood Lyrics
Katie Ford
2015
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
2015
Corridor
Saskia Hamilton
2015
Directing Herbert White
James Franco
2015
How to Dance as the Roof Caves In
Nick Lantz
2015
If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
Matthea Harvey
2015
The Earth Avails
Mark Wunderlich
2014
3 Sections
Vijay Seshadri
2014
Belmont
Stephen Burt
2014
Incarnadine
Mary Szybist
2014
It Becomes You
Dobby Gibson
2014
Scratching the Ghost
Dexter L. Booth
2014
Swoop
Hailey Leithauser
2014
The Exchange
Sophie Cabot Black
2014
The Year of What Now
Brian Russell
2014
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Harryette Mullen
2013
Everyday People
Albert Goldbarth
2013
Inferno
Mary Jo Bang,
Dante Alighieri
2013
June Fourth Elegies
Jeffrey Yang,
Liu Xiaobo
2013
Mother Desert
Jo Sarzotti
2013
Nostalgia, My Enemy
Sinan Antoon,
Peter Money,
Saadi Youssef
2013
Pity The Beautiful
Dana Gioia
2013
The Game of Boxes
Catherine Barnett
2013
Useless Landscape or A Guide For Boys
D. A. Powell
2013
Y
Leslie Adrienne Miller
2012
Army Cats
Tom Sleigh
2012
Come and See
2012
Coming to That
Dorothea Tanning
2012
Dhaka Dust
Dilruba Ahmed
2012
Invisible Strings
Jim Moore
2012
Life on Mars
2012
Otherwise Elsewhere
David Rivard
2012
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
Nick Flynn
2012
The Rest of the Voyage
Elena Rivera,
Bernard Noel
2012
Vanishing-Line
Jeffrey Yang
2011
Missing You, Metropolis: Poems
Gary Jackson
2011
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
Thomas Sayers Ellis
2011
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Tony Hoagland
2011
We Don't Know, We Don't Know
Nick Lantz
2010
Chronic
D. A. Powell
2010
Edward Hopper
Lawrence Venuti,
Ernest Farrés
2010
Skirmish
Dobby Gibson
2010
The Bride of E
Mary Jo Bang
2010
The Looking House
Fred Marchant
2010
To Be Read in 500 Years
Albert Goldbarth
2010
Unrest
Joanna Rawson
2009
An Aquarium
Jeffrey Yang
2009
Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death
2009
Colosseum
Katie Ford
2009
Matter of Fact
Eamon Grennan
2009
Nettles
Marilyn Hacker,
Venus Khoury-Ghata
2009
The King's Question
Brian Culhane
2008
Duende
2008
Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
2008
Meanwhile Take My Hand
Elizabeth Macklin,
Kirmen Uribe
2008
Modern Life
Matthea Harvey
2008
The Kitchen Sink: New & Selected Poems 1972-2007
Albert Goldbarth
2008
The Lyrics
2008
The Resurrection Trade
Leslie Adrienne Miller
2007
Blue Front
Martha Collins
2007
Dear Ghosts
Tess Gallagher
2007
Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005
Landis Everson
2007
In the Middle Distance
Linda Gregg
2007
Lions Don't Eat Us
Constance Quarterman Bridges
2007
Look There
Lisa Katz,
Agi Mishol
2007
Parallel Play
Steve Burt
2007
Recyclopedia
Harryette Mullen
2007
Sugartown
David Rivard
2005
A Table of Content
Dorothea Tanning
2005
Cocktails
D. A. Powell
2005
Don't Let Me B Lonely
Claudia Rankine
2005
Sad Little Breathing Machine
Matthea Harvey
2005
The Descent
Sophie Cabot Black
2005
The Long Meadow
Vijay Seshadri
2005
Voluntary Servitude
Mark Wunderlich
2004
A Wake for the Living
Charles Simic,
Radmila Lazic
2004
Barter
Monica Youn
2004
Seven-Star Bird
David Daniel
2004
She Says
Marilyn Hacker,
Venus Khoury-Ghata
2004
Sky Lounge
Mark Bibbins
2004
The Body's Question
2004
What Narcissism Means to Me
Tony Hoagland
2003
Bellocq's Ophelia
Natasha Trethewey
2003
Blind Huber
Nick Flynn
2003
Deposition
Katie Ford
2003
No Shelter
Forrest Gander,
Pura Lopez-Colome
2003
Still Life with Waterfall
Eamon Grennan
2003
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face
Khaled Mattawa,
Saadi Youssef
2002
Among Women
Jason Shinder
2002
Antebellum Dream Book
Elizabeth Alexander
2002
As for Dream
Saskia Hamilton
2002
Interrogations at Noon
Dana Gioia
2002
My Favorite Apocalypse
Catie Rosemurgy
2002
The Half Finished Heaven
Robert Bly,
Tomas Tranströmer
2002
The White Lie: New & Selected Poetry
2001
Bewitched Playground
David Rivard
2001
Pastoral
2001
Some Ether
Nick Flynn