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.
Francis Boutle Publishers
United Kingdom
2025
Athair/Father
Christopher Whyte (Tr.),
Christopher Whyte
2021
A Speech of Birds
Victoria Field
2021
Seven Songs of Decline
Margaret Jull Costa (Tr.),
Analuisa Amaral (Tr.),
Mario de Sa-Carneiro
2021
The Last Model
Jayde Will (Tr.),
Ligija Purinasa,
Raibis,
Ingrida Tarauda
Freehand Books
Canada
2025
Moving to Delilah
Catherine Owen
2023
Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies
2023
You Still Look the Same
Farzana Doctor
🇨🇦
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
2024
Spore or Seed
Caitlin Maling
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
Frontenac House
Canada
2025
Jesus is a Voyeur
Bret Crowle
🇨🇦
2025
The Astonishing Room
Brian Bartlett
2025
The Hundred-Year Circus
Sarah Gibbs
🇨🇦
2025
What Kind of Daughter?
Rayanne Haines
2024
Among the Untamed
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
2024
Antecedent
Juleta Severson-Baker
2024
Cluster Flux
D. S. Stymeist
2024
Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children
Kerry Ryan
2024
I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, but Never Forsaken You
Leilei Chen (Tr.),
MA Hui
2024
It Begins in Salt
Natalie Meisner
2024
Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast
Jim Nason
2024
Three-Way Renegade: Samuel Stewart Without Apology
Keith Garebian
2023
A Grief Cave
Ben Gallagher
🇨🇦
2023
Being Here: The Chemistry of Startle
Barry Dempster
2023
Emptying the Ocean
Kim Fahner
2023
Finger to Finger
Keith Garebian
2023
Openwork and Limestone
Frances Boyle
2023
Pilgrim to No Country
Anvesh Jain
🇨🇦
2023
Transcribing Moonlight
Skylar Kay
🇨🇦
2022
A Selected History of Soul Speak
Andrea Thompson
2022
Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli
D. A. Lockhart
2022
Our Bodies' Unanswered Questions
Wendy Donawa
2022
Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun
Rayanne Haines
2022
Think of How Old We Could Get
Tyler Engstrom
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
iii
J. Fisher
2013
tis pity
David Bateman
2013
Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority Report
Kevin Irie
2012
13
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
FutureCycle Press
USA
2022
The Lamps of History
Michael Sandler
2022
There Is No Good Time for Bad News
Aruni Kashyap
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
2025
Come One Thing Another
Cory Lavender
🇨🇦
2025
Farm: Lot 23
Tonya Lailey
🇨🇦
2025
Graphis scripta/writing lichen
Clare Goulet
🇨🇦
2025
The Folklore of Lunenburg County
Michael Goodfellow
2025
The Work
Bren Simmers
2025
Weather
Rob Taylor
2023
Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography
Michael Goodfellow
🇨🇦
2023
Shadow Blight
Annick MacAskill
2023
Surrender and Resistance
Katie Fewster-Yan
🇨🇦
2022
buckled into the sky
Adele Graf
2022
Call Me Home
John Terpstra
2022
Hard Bargain Road
Susan Haldane
2022
If, When
Bren Simmers
2022
Seven-to-Five
Mike Meagher
2022
Solstice 2020
2022
Tangled and Cleft
Matt Robinson
2022
Unrecovered
Sean Howard
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
Gaudy Boy
USA
2025
Interrogation Records
Jeddie Sophronius
2023
Time Regime: Poems
Jhani Randhawa
2022
Object Permanence: Poems
Nica Bengzon
Gazebo Books/Life Before Man
Australia
2024
If There Is A Butterfly That Drinks Tears
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon