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.
Fiction House
Pakistan
2014
Wrist In The Clutches of Death
Muhammad Shanazar (Tr.),
Dr. Jawaz Jaffri
Finishing Line Press
USA
2025
Birthing Butterflies
Claudia May
2025
Running Wild
Patricia McMillen
2022
Too Many Seeds
Gabrielle Myers
2017
A Fix of Ink
Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Canada
2021
Urbanities
Brooke Clarke
2020
Smallholding
Anne Compton
2019
A Violent Streak
Stephanie Warner
2019
Half-Life of Oracles
Sarah Feldman
2017
This Being: Poems
Ingrid Ruthig
2015
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar
Brian Bartlett
2014
Alongside
Anne Compton
2013
White Sheets
Beverley Bie Brahic
2011
& A Serial Poem
Daryl Hine
2010
asking questions indoors and out
Anne Compton
2009
Sky Atlas
Alan Wilson
2009
The Day in Moss
Eric Miller
2008
Crown and Ribs
Blaise Moritz
2008
Recollected Poems 1951-2004
Daryl Hine
2007
The Hermit's Kiss
Richard Teleky
2006
Maps of Invariance
John Smith
2006
Processional
Anne Compton
2006
Processional
Anne Compton
2005
Blue Iris
Mary Oliver
2005
Insects
Iain Deans
2005
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver
2004
Nothing Fell Today But Rain
Evan Jones
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 (Tr.),
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
Floating World Editions
USA
2024
What Painter Could Ever Capture This?
Jonathan Chaves (Tr.),
Four Lings of Song China
2022
Broad Sea and Empty Sky: China's Greatest Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo
Dorothy Trench Bonett (Tr.),
Xu Zhimo
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
2023
Quarantine Highway
Millicent Borges Accardi
2022
Audabe at Night or Serenade in the Mornign
Taofeek Ayeyemi
2022
Life/Slices
Gene Novogrodsky
2021
Corta la Piel/It Pierces the skin
Sandra Kingery (Tr.),
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
Flying Island Books
Australia
2025
Nibs & Nubs
Josh Stenberg
🇨🇦
2024
Alive in Dubbo
D.G. Lloyd
2024
Text Messages from the Universe
Richard James Allen
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
2022
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
Sarah Mangold
2022
Well Waiting Room
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer
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
2025
Another Land of My Body
Rodney Terich Leonard
2025
How to Abandon Ship
Sasha West
2025
Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?
Cyrus Cassells
2025
Pinion
Monica Rico
2025
The Animal is Chemical
Hadara Bar-Nadav
2025
The Sorrow Apartments
Andrea Cohen
2025
unalone
Jessica Jacobs
2024
Bianca
Eugenia Leigh
2024
Childcare
Rob Schlegel
2024
Creature
Michael Dumanis
2024
If Some God Shakes Your House
Jennifer Franklin
2024
The Disordered Alphabet
Cintia Santana
2024
The Mansions
Daniel Tobin
2024
Whale Aria
Rajiv Mohabir
2023
Aunt Bird
Yerra Sugarman
2023
Hotel Oblivion
Cynthia Cruz
2023
Muse Found in a Colonized Body
Yesenia Montilla
2023
Only
Rebecca Foust
2023
Paradise
Victoria Redel
2023
Previously Owned
Nathan McClain
2023
The Certain Body
Julia Guez
2023
The Listening Skin
Glenis Redmond
2023
The World That the Shooter Left Us
Cyrus Cassells
2023
Undress, She Said
Doug Anderson
2022
Cutlish
Rajiv Mohabir
2022
Everything
Andrea Cohen
2022
Gentefication
Antonio de Jesús López
2022
Hotel
Carl Adamshick
2022
It Isn't a Ghost if It Lives in Your Chest
Joan Houlihan
2022
Prometeo
C. Dale Young
2022
Renditions
Reginald Gibbons
2022
The Art of Fiction
Kevin Prufer
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