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.
Green Lantern Press
United States
2019
Elevated Threat Level
Rachel Galvin
2013
Palm Trees
Nick Twemlow
2013
The White House
Joel Craig
Greyhart Press
United Kingdom
2014
Dead to Rights: Acirculatiry of Glosas
Alain C. (Elaine Stirling) Dexter
Griots Lounge Publishing Canada
Nigeria
2021
Waterman
Echezonachukwu Nduka
2019
The Questioner
Tanure Ojaide
2010
Dear Baby Ramatu
Sam Omatseye
2010
Mandela's Bones & Other Poems
Sam Omatseye
2002
Farting Presidents & Other Poems
Tope Omoniyi
Groundwood Books
Canada
2004
Ann and Seamus
Kevin Major
2004
Inanna:from the myths of Ancient Sumer
Kim (interpretation) Echlin
Grove Press
United States
2004
The White Eyelash
Susan Kinsolving
2004
Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit
Timothy Donnelly
2003
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans
Jimmy Santiago Baca
2003
Mount Clutter
Sarah Lindsay
2002
A Short History of Snakes
Alan Jenkins
2002
Darling
Honor Moore
2002
Healing Earthquakes
Jimmy Baca
2002
Louise in Love
Mary Jo Bang
2002
Plot
Claudia Rankine
2001
Beautiful False Things
Irving Feldman
2001
Say Uncle
Kay Ryan
2001
Transit Authority
Tony Sanders
Grove/Atlantic
United States
2006
Niagara River
Kay Ryan
2005
March Book
Jesse Ball
2005
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon
Mary Jo Bang
Guernica Editions
Canada
2021
A Map of Rain Days
Jennifer Hosein
2021
Blood Rises
David Haskins
2021
Canticles II (mmxx)
George Elliott Clarke
2021
Cosmic Bowling: The I Ching Poems
Cornelia Hoogland
2021
Crito Di Volta
Marc di Saverio
2021
Götterdämmerung
Len Gasparini
2021
Heart of Goodness: The Life of Marguerite Bourgeoys in 30 Poems
Carolyne Van Der Meer
2021
I Will Be Corrupted
Joseph A. Dandurand
2021
Injuring Eternity
Tom Bradley
2021
Journeys
Christine Tipper,
Nadine Ltaif
2021
Mummyjihad
Earl Fowler
2021
Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley
Chad Norman
2021
Swoon
Elana Wolff
2021
Tell Me What Moves You
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Philippe Haeck
2021
The Haunted Hand
Donald Winkler,
Louise Dupré
2021
The Tenderness and the Wood
Marlon Fick
2021
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Conyer Clayton
2020
Bewilderness
Catherine Black
2020
Canticles II (mmxix)
George Elliott Clarke
2020
Extraordinary Renditions
Niki Lambros
2020
Footprints of Dark Energy
Henry Beissel
2020
McLuhan's Canary
Bruce Meyer
2020
The Perfect Archive
Paul Lisson
2019
Flesh
Sonia Di Placido
2019
I Sleep in the Arms of Your Eyes
Beverly Ellenbogen
2019
Infrangible
Carol Barbour
2019
Learning To Miss
Paul Nelson
2019
Praise Music
D. G. Geis
2019
The Massacre Confirmed Our Worst Suspicions
W. B. MacDonald
2019
The Missing Field
Jennifer Zilm
2019
Vigil Poems
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Jean Royer
2018
Absurdity, Woe Is Me
J. J. Steinfeld
2018
Canticles I (mmxvii)
George Elliott Clarke
2018
Everything Reminds You of Something Else
Elana Wolff
2018
math for couples
Adele Graf
2018
Portraits of Absence
Marco Sonzogni,
Ross Woods,
Fabiano Alborghetti
2018
Red Haws to Light the Field
James Deahl
2018
Rooms
Karen Ocana,
Louise Dupré
2018
send
Domenico Capilongo
2018
The Divine Genome
Thomaas Krampf
2018
Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes
Margo LaPierre
2018
What If Zen Gardens
Henry Beissel
2018
Words for What Those Men Have Done
Richard Jeffrey Newman
2017
Arguments for Lawn Chairs
Aaron Krueter
2017
Every Night of Our Lives
Rocco de Giacomo
2017
The Canticles I (mmxvi)
George Elliott Clarke
2017
The Examined Life
Luciano Iacobelli
2017
Tidal Fury
Brenda Clews
2016
A Housecoat Remains
Tina Biello
2016
Deadly Nightshade
Margita Gailitis,
Liana Langa
2016
In The Garden of I Am
Max Layton
2016
In Your Crib
Austin Clarke
2016
Logos
Gil Fagiani
2016
Pondering the Weight of Being
Marco Sonzogni,
Ross Woods,
Giorgio Orelli
2016
Somersault
Nancy Anne Miller
2016
The Weight
Ken Norris
2016
Verge
Lynda Monahan
2016
We are no longer the smart kids in class
David Huebert
2015
After Words
Stan Rogal
2015
Beyond The Flames
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Louise Dupré
2015
Breathing Underwater
Ross Woods,
Pablo Valdivia
2015
Burning The Furniture
Paul Nelson
2015
Dark Menagerie
Andrea Moorhead,
Elise Turcotte
2015
Directory of the Vulnerable
Marco Sonzogni,
Fabiano Alborghetti
2015
Elsewhere on Earth
Peter Brown,
Emmanuel Merle
2015
Forecast
Clara Blackwood
2015
Hours
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Fernand Ouellette
2015
Mirror Image
Len Gasparini
2015
Paper Wings
Rosemary Clewes
2015
Reaching V
Kate Marshall Flaherty
2015
Shiftless
Janet Fraser
2015
Skinny Dipping with the Muse
Ellen S. Jaffe
2015
The Absolute Is a Round Die
Hugh Hazelton,
José Acquelin
2015
The Fissures of Our Throats
Edward Nixon
2015
The Irrelevant Man
Antonio D’Alfonso
2015
The Other Lives
Peter Carravetta
2015
The Politics of Being Ugly
Kayla Altman
2015
Therese for Joy and Orchestra
Jo-Anne Elder,
Helene Monette
2015
Tigers and the CEO
Cristina Perissinotto
2015
True As Moonlight
Merle Nudelman
2015
Under My Skin
Orville Lloyd Douglas
2014
Fugitive Horizons
Henry Beissel
2014
Snow Drifts, I Sing
Juri Talvet,
H. L. Hix,
Juhan Liiv
2014
The Daring of Paradise
Brian Day
2014
Things That Fall
Alisa Belanger,
Denise Desautels
2014
This Cockeyed World
Jim Christy
2014
Where Spaces Glow
Christine Tipper,
Francis Catalano
2014
Where The Sun Shines Best
Austin Clarke
2014
Wings Folded in Cracks
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Jean-Pierre Vallotton
2013
Dreaming of Lost America
Eugene McNamara
2013
Exaltation in Cadmium Red
Sonia Di Placido
2013
For The Maintenance of Landscape
Johanna Bishop,
Brenda Porster,
Mia Lecomte
2013
Giant Sky of The Shepherds
Robert Flanagan
2013
Habibi: The diwan of Alim Maghrebi
David Solway
2013
Here And Not Elsewhere
Marco Sonzogni,
Pietro De Marchi
2013
Instead of Whom Does The Flower Bloom
Urska Charney,
Vlado Kreslin
2013
Rooms The Wind Makes
James Deahl
2013
The Bones of His Being
Sue Chenette
2013
WhenThe Rapture Comes
Max Layton
2012
Amphetamine Heart
Liz Worth
2012
Bending The Continuum
Dane Swan
2012
Paramita, Little Black
Suzanne Robertson
2012
Startled Night
Elana Wolff
2012
The Cure Is A Forest
Desi Di Nardo
2012
The Ecstatic Tour of Gratitude
Jill Battson
2012
The Metamorphosis of Ishtar
John Asfour,
Nadine Ltaif
2012
Trivia Thief: Selected Poems
Marco Sonzogni,
Alberto Nessi
2012
Twohundredandfourpoems
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Roger Des Roches
2011
A Choice of Uppercuts
Marco Sonzogni,
Oliver Scharpf
2011
Exhale, Exhale
Cristina Perissinotto
2011
Flashlight
Laura Boss
2011
Floating Bodies
Julie Roorda
2011
Footsteps on the ceiling
Baila Ellenbogen
2011
Fosfeni
Pasquale Verdicchio,
Andrea Zanzotto
2011
Light and Time
Michael Mirolla
2011
Marimba Forever
Jim Christy
2011
My Father's hands Spoke in Yiddish
Karen Shenfeld
2011
Of Snow, of Soul
H. L. Hix,
Juri Talvet
2011
Stone Dream
Andrea Moorhead,
Madeleine Gagnon
2011
The All Nighter's Radio
M. Travis Lane
2011
The He We Knew
Merle Nudelman
2011
The Man Who Delivers Clouds
Antonio D’Alfonso,
José Acquelin
2011
then touch me here
Margita Gailitis,
Edvins Raups
2011
Time Slip
John Oughton
2010
A place in the world
Robert Flanagan
2010
Changing shore
Christine Tipper,
Nadine Ltaif
2010
Conjuring Jesus
Brian Day
2010
Exploding into Night
Sandy Pool
2010
Orioles in the Oranges
Melanie Janisse
2010
Slender Human Weight
Sue Chenette
2009
Estonia Elegy
H. L. Hix,
Juri Talvet
2009
Parents from a Different Alphabet
Diane Raptosh
2009
The Brother Inside Me
Rachel Guido deVries
2009
The Place Where Your Soul Dwells
Nora Alleyn,
Carole David
2009
The Plural of Some Things
Desi Di Nardo
2009
The Velocity of Escape
Jim Johnstone
2009
This Nothing's Place
Pasquale Verdicchio
2009
Twentieth Centuries
Daniel Sloate,
Jean-Marc Desgent
2008
All that lies between us
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2008
Lessons of Chaos and Disaster
Catherine Black
2008
Selected Poems
Laurence Hutchman
2008
Seventeen Trees
Marianne Micros
2008
Subway Medusa
Clara Blackwood
2008
The Night will be insistent
Daniel Sloate,
Denise Desautels
2007
After the End
David Sobelman
2007
And Light Remains
Isabella Colalillo-Katz
2007
Courage Underground
Julie Roorda
2007
Let Me Go
Nora Alleyn,
Anne Claire Poirier
2007
Mediterranean Men
Nick Mancuso
2007
Newer Lies
Dan Jalowica
2007
Not just a personal ad
Vittoria Repetto
2007
The World Forgotten
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Paul Bïlanger
2007
Touch Earth
M. Travis Lane
2007
We, the women
Merle Nudelman
2007
You speak to me in trees
Elana Wolff
2006
Holding Out
John L. Falk
2006
The Blueness of Light
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Louise Dupré
2006
The Broken World: Poems 1967-1998
Len Gasparini
2006
The Fertile Crescent
Karen Shenfeld
2006
The Unsaid Passing
B. W. Powe
2006
What My Arms Can Carry
Gianna Patriarca
2004
At the Moonbeam Caf
Malca Litovitz
2004
Borrowed Light
Merle Nudelman
2004
Dreaming Our Space
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Marguerite Andersen
2004
Mask
Elana Wolff,
Charlotte Salomon
2004
On Order and Things
Antonio D’Alfonso,
Stefan Psenak
2004
Origins
George Whipple
2004
The Hippopotamus
Ann Snodgrass,
Luciano Erba
2003
In Green
Robin Blackburn
2003
Italian Women in Black Dresses
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2003
Selected Poems
Luigi Bonaffini,
Albino Pierro
2003
The Bursting Test
Linda Rogers
2003
The Holy Land
Stefanie Jed,
Pasquale Verdicchio,
Alda Merini
2002
Backscatter
Raymond Filip
2002
News from the Blockade and Other Poems
A. Levitin,
Egito Goncalves
2002
Of Dissonance and Shadows
Daniel Sloate
2001
Love Is Not Native To My Blood
Brian Day
2001
The Great Light Cage
Robert Flanagan
2001
The House is Past
Pasquale Verdicchio
Hagios Press
Canada
2014
Rove
Laurie D. Graham
2014
The Invisible Library
Paul Wilson
2014
The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild
Murray Reiss
2013
Boy
Victor Enns
2013
Famous Roadkill
Allan Safarik
2013
Grid
Brenda Schmidt
2011
After the Words
Jennifer Londry
2011
Fallout
2011
The Day is a Cold Grey Stone
Allan Safarik
2011
Waiting for the Gulf Stream
Bert Almon
2010
House Beneath
Susan Telfer
2010
Life in the Canopy
Bruce Rice
2010
Soul to Touch
Anne Campbell
2010
White Light Primitive
Andrew Stubbs
2010
Witness
Robert Currie
2009
Cantos from Wolverine Creek
Brenda Schmidt
2009
Gabriel's Beach
Neal McLeod
2009
Mongrel Love
Judith Krause
2009
Yellowgrass
Allan Safarik
2009
You
Gary Hyland
2008
Accidental Animals
Michael Trussler
2008
Erratic
Donna Kane
2008
Hands Reaching in Water
Gary Hyland
2008
The Pear Orchard
Joanne Weber
2007
Flesh, A Naked Dress
Susan Andrews Grace
2007
Sleeping on The Moon
Sylvia Adams
2007
Where Blue Grama Grows
Doris Bircham
2006
Lucky Man
Victor Enns
2006
Songs to Kill a Wihtikow
Neal McLeod
2006
The Ice House
Melissa Walker
2006
Time's Body
Kathleen Wall
2006
When Light Falls From The Sun
Allan Safarik
2005
Somewhere, A Fire
Donna Kane
2005
Stone Baby
Dolores Reimer
2005
Under a Small Moon: Poems New and Selected
Garry Radison
2005
Venus Rising
Laura Burkhart
2004
Bones in their Wings
Lorna Crozier