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.
Hands-On Books/Modjaji Books
South Africa
2015
Now the World Takes these Breaths
Joan Metelerkamp
2015
Pleasure-in-relating
Susan Groves
Hanging Loose Press
United States
2021
My Name is Immigrant
Wang Ping
2014
War Reporter
Dan O’Brien
2009
Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard
Michael Cirelli
2009
Opening Day
William Corbett
2009
The Evolution of a Sigh
R. Zamora Linmark
2009
The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems
Indran Amirthanayagam
2009
The Virgin Formica
Sharon Mesmer
2009
Winter Journey
Tony Towle
2008
Boy Drinkers
Terence Winch
2008
Cadenza
Charles North
2008
Doing 70
Hettie Jones
2008
My Body: New and Selected Poems
Joan Larkin
2008
Overnight
Paul Violi
2007
Calls from the Outside World
Robert Hershon
2007
Guilty at the Rapture
Keith Taylor
2007
Moraine
Joanna Fuhrman
2007
Official Versions
Mark Pawlak
2007
On the Side of the Crow
Christien Gholson
2007
Where X Marks the Spot
Bill Zavatsky
2005
Devoured By The Moon
Steven J. Stewart,
Rafael Perez Estrada
2005
The Way They Say Hes Here
Jacqueline Lyons
2005
When The Body Says It's Leaving
Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
2004
All Told
Hettie Jones
2004
The Latest Winter
Maggie Nelson
2004
Ugh Ugh Ocean
Joanna Fuhrman
2003
Jazz Fan Looks Back
Jayne Cortez
2003
Psychic Killed by Train
Ron Overton
2003
Translating Mo'um
Cathy Park Hong
2002
The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000
Tony Towle
2002
Wreckage
Ha Jin
HappenStance Press
United Kingdom
2021
The Girl Who Cried
Charlotte Gann
2021
Touched
Alan Buckley
2020
The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems
Gerry Cambridge
2019
The Distal Point
Fiona Moore
2018
AND
Michael Mackmin
2017
Noir
Charlotte Gann
2016
In Casting Off
J. O. Morgan
Harbour Publishing
Canada
2021
Orrery
Donna Kane
2021
Watching a Man Break A Dog's Back
Tom Wayman
2020
This Was the River
John Pass
2019
the bridge from day to night
David Zieroth
2019
The Broken Face
2018
Trailer Park Elegy
Cornelia Hoogland
2016
Marry & Burn
Rachel Rose
2016
The Thunderbird Poems
Armand Garnet Ruffo
2015
Albrecht Durer and me
David Zieroth
2015
Bonsai Love
Diane Tucker
2015
Washita: New Poems
Patrick Lane
2014
Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain
2013
Dirty Snow
Tom Wayman
2013
Song and Spectacle
Rachel Rose
2012
Crawlspace
John Pass
2010
The Fly in Autumn
David Zieroth
2008
Earth's Crude Gravities
2008
High Speed Through Shoaling Water
Tom Wayman
2008
Last Water Song
Patrick Lane
2007
The Human Shore
2007
The Village of Sliding Time
David Zieroth
2006
Ecologue
Ken Belford
2005
Go Leaving Strange
Patrick Lane
2005
Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004
Peter Trower
2004
House Built of Rain
2003
Breath You Take From The Lord
2003
My Father's Cup
Tom Wayman
2002
Crows do not have Retirement
David Zieroth
2001
The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
Patrick Lane
Harcourt
United States
2008
Bucolics
Maurice Manning
2008
Failure
Philip Schultz
2008
Windcatcher
Breyten Breytenbach
2006
Greetings
John Irons,
Hugo Claus
2006
Monologue of a Dog
Clare Cavanagh,
Stanislaw Baranczach,
Wislawa Szymborska
2006
My Noiseless Entourage
2006
The Shout
Simon Armitage
2005
A Companion For Owls
Maurice Manning
2005
Collected Poems: 1943-2004
Richard Wilbur
2005
Crossing the Equator
Nicholas Christopher
2005
Living in the Past
Philip Schultz
2004
The Voice at 3.00 a.m.
2003
Lady One: of love and other poems
Breyten Breytenbach
2003
The Holy Worm of Praise: poems
Philip Schultz
2002
Night Picnic
2001
Feast
Tomaz Salamun
HarperCollins
United States
2021
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
Barbara Kingsolver
2013
The Auroras
David St. John
2009
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door
Robert Bly,
Lewisohn,
Hafez
2007
After
Jane Hirshfield
2004
Blue Hour
Carolyn Forché
2004
Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
2004
The Standing Wave
Gabriel Spera
2003
North Point North
John Koethe
2003
Origami Bridges
Diane Ackerman
2002
June-tree: New & Selected Poems 1974-2000
Peter Balakian
2002
Source
Mark Doty
2002
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars
Robert Bly
2001
Erotikon
Susan Mitchell
2001
North Street
Jonathan Galassi
HarperCollins Canada
Canada
2020
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
Thomas King
2020
When You Ask Me Where I'm Going
Jasmin Kaur
HarperCollins India
India
2018
Ancient Guest
Biswamit Dwibedy
2018
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
Tishani Doshi
2018
The Altar of the Only World
Sharanya Manivannan
2015
Living Room: Poems
Manohar Shetty
2015
Selected Poems
Sampuna Chattarji,
Joy Goswami
2015
You are Neera
Arunava Sinha,
Sunil Gangopadhyay
2013
Everything Begins Elsewhere
Tishani Doshi
2013
Life & Times of Mr. Subramaniam
Vivek Narayanan
HarperCollins/Ecco
United States
2021
Field Music
Alexandria Hall
2021
Runaway
2020
Come Closer and Listen
2020
Nervous System
Rosalie Moffett
2019
A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Emily Jungmin Yoon
2018
Civil Twilight
Jeffrey Schultz
2018
Ordinary Beast
Nicole Sealey
2015
Foxes on the Trampoline
Charlotte Boulay
2013
Place
2013
Quick Question
2013
Stolen Air
Christian Wiman,
Osip Mandelstam
2010
Shannon
Campbell McGrath
2009
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
Paul Guest
2009
Sea Change
2009
Seven Notebooks
Campbell McGrath
2009
The Ghost Soldiers
James Tate
2008
A Worldly Country
2008
The Collected Poems
Alissa Valles,
Zbigniew Herbert
2007
Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
2007
Sally's Hair
John Koethe
2006
Auguries of Innocence
Patti Smith
2006
Overlord
2006
Where Shall I Wander
2005
Pax Atomica
Campbell McGrath
2003
Florida Poems
Campbell McGrath
2001
Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
Stanley Plumly
HarperCollins/Harper Perennial
United States
2015
Trespass
Thomas Dooley
2013
Maybe the Saddest Thing
Marcus Wicker
2013
ROTC Kills
John Koethe
2012
The Lamp With Wings
M. A. Vizsolyi
2011
Ideal Cities
Erika Meitner
2010
Bird Eating Bird
Kristin Naca
2010
Ninety-fifth Street
John Koethe
2009
House Held Together by Winds
Sabra Loomis
2008
Novel Pictorial Noise
Noah Gordon
Harvill Secker
United Kingdom
2017
Of Love and Desire
Louis de Bernieres
2013
Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being
Paul Durcan
2008
The Laughter of Mothers
Paul Durcan
Hawakal Publishers
India
2021
Broken Lines and Rainbows
Raja Chakraborty
2021
Kirigami
Utpal Hchakraborty
2018
Balconies of Time
Amit Shankar Saha
2018
Solitary Stillness
Kiriti Sengupta
2018
Whorelight
Linda Ashok
Haymarket Books
United States
2021
Text Messages
Yassin Alsalman
2021
Too Much Midnight
Krista Franklin
2020
1919
Eve L. Ewing
2020
Build Yourself a Boat
Camonghne Felix
2020
Can I Kick It?
Idris Goodwin
2020
Crossfire
Staceyann Chin
2020
Everything Must Go
Kevin Coval
2019
Black Queer Hoe
Britteney Black Rose Kapri
2019
Citizen Illegal
José Olivarez
2016
Before the Next Bomb Drops
Remi Konazi
Headmistress Press
United States
2018
Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin
2017
The Body's Alphabet
Ann Tweedy
2016
I Carry My Mother
Lesl Newman