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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
United States
2020
Tap Out
Edgar Kunz
2020
The Twenty-Ninth Year
Hala Alyan
2014
The Gone and the Going Away
Maurice Manning
2013
Child Made of Sand
Thomas Lux
2013
The Selvage
Linda Gregerson
2013
Thrall
Nathasha Trethewey
2012
Imaginary Logic
2012
The Back Chamber
Donald Hall
2012
The Blue Tower
Michael Biggins,
Tomaz Salamun
2012
The Needle
Jennifer Grotz
2011
Anterooms
Richard Wilbur
2011
The Common Man
Maurice Manning
2010
Displacement
Leslie Harrison
2009
A Yes-or-No Answer
Jane Shore
2008
Magnetic North
Linda Gregerson
2008
Silence Fell
Josephine Dickinson
2008
Space Walk
Tom Sleigh
2008
The Broken String
Grace Schulman
2008
Vellum
Matt Donovan
2007
Dark Wild Realm
Michael Collier
2007
Late for Work
David Tucker
2007
Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey
2007
Strong is Your Hold
Galway Kinnell
2007
White Apples and the Taste of Stone
Donald Hall
2006
Tantalus in Love
2006
The Incentive of the Maggot
Ron Slate
2006
The Sugar Mile
Glyn Maxwell
2005
New and Selected Poems
Michael Ryan
2005
The Clerk's Tale
2005
The Cradle Place
Thomas Lux
2004
Cusp
Jennifer Grotz
2004
Far Side of the Earth
Tom Sleigh
2003
Days of Wonder
Grace Schulman
2003
Kingdom of the Instant
2003
Ninety-five Nights of Listening
Malinda Markham
2003
Pursuit
Erica Funkhouser
2003
Song and Dance
2003
Swallow
Miranda Field
2003
The Nerve
Glyn Maxwell
2003
The Painted Bed
Donald Hall
2003
Waterborne
Linda Gregerson
2002
The Paintings of Our Lives
Grace Schulman
2002
The Street of Clocks
Thomas Lux
2001
A New Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell
2001
The Ledge
Michael Collier
2001
Time?s Fool: A Tale in Verse
Glyn Maxwell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner
United States
2018
Silencer
Marcus Wicker
2017
Ramshackle Ode
Keith Leonard
2017
To the Left of Time
Thomas Lux
House of Anansi
Canada
2021
As Far As You Know
2021
Junebat
John Elizabeth Stintzi
2021
Roguelike
Mathew Henderson
2020
Dunk Tank
Kayla Czaga
2020
NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes on the Field
2020
The Elements
2020
Twitch Force
Michael Redhill
2019
river woman
Katherena Vermette
2019
Stereoblind
Emma Healey
2019
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
2019
Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
Mikko Harvey
2018
The Corpses of the Future
Lynn Crosbie
2018
This Accident of Being Lost
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
2018
Xiphoid Process
2017
A Pillow Book
2017
Box Kite
Baziju,
Kim Maltman,
Roo Borson
2017
The Waking Comes Late
Steven Heighton
2016
Kapusta
2016
Sequence
2016
Subway Stations of the Cross
Ins Choi
2015
For Tamara
Sarah Lang
2015
Prologue for the Age of Consequence
Garth Martens
2015
The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza
2014
1996
Sara Peters
2014
The Polymers
Adam Dickinson
2014
Under the Keel
Michael Crummey
2013
Chaser
Erin Knight
2013
Testament
Dennis Lee
2013
The New Measures
2013
The Unmentionable
2012
A Doctor Pealled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno
Matt Rader
2012
Oyama Pink Shale
Sharon Thesen
2011
Bloom
Michael Lista
2011
O Resplandor
2011
Patient Frame
Steven Heighton
2010
Gun Dogs
James Langer
2010
Mole
Patrick Warner
2010
Upgraded to Serious
2009
Chameleon Hours
Elise Partridge
2009
Jeremiah, Ohio
Adam Sol
2008
Domain
Barbara Nickel
2008
O Cadoiro
2008
Yesno
Dennis Lee
2007
Liar
Lynn Crosbie
2007
The Good Bacteria
Sharon Thesen
2006
drift
2006
Past Imperfect
2005
Night Street Repairs
2005
The Address Book
Steven Heighton
2004
Crowd of Sounds
Adam Sol
2004
Museum of Bone and Water
2004
Un
Dennis Lee
2003
O Cidadan
2003
The Wife's Account
Esta Spalding
2002
Days into Flatspin
2002
Light-crossing
Michael Redhill
2001
A Pair of Scissors
Sharon Thesen
2001
Ruin & Beauty
Patricia Young
2001
The Tapeworm Foundry
D. Wershler-Henry
House of Nehesi Publishers
St Martin
2017
Book of The Dead
Lasana Sekou
2012
Book of Sins
Betsy Rosenberg,
Nidaa Khoury
2011
Nativity/Nativité/Natividad
Alex Richards,
Lasana M. Sekou
2011
Nativity/Nativité/Natividad
Maria Teresa Ortega,
Lasana M. Sekou
2011
Pelican Hart
Maria Teresa Ortega,
Lasana M. Sekou
2011
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Amiri Baraka
2009
I Believe
Howard A. Fergus
2006
37 Poems
Lasana M. Sekou
2006
The Salt Reaper - Poems from the flats
Lasana M. Sekou
2004
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Amiri Baraka
Howling Dog Press
United States
2005
The Death of Sardanapalus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars
David Ray
Howling Dog Press/Brave New World Order Books/Omega Editions
United States
2009
Smelling Mary
Heller Levinson
Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.
United States
2016
Constructed of Magis: And Other Poems on the Immortality of the Human Spirit
Louis Alan Swartz
Hunter Contemporary Australian Poets
Australia
2014
Novelties
Fiona Hile
2014
Paperweight
Claire Gaskin
2014
The Mundiad
Justin Clemens
Hybrid Publishers
Australia
2020
Massaging Himmler: A poetic biography of Dr Felix Kersten
Anne M. Carson
2015
A Spell, A Charm
John Leonard
2015
Letterature
Timoshenko Aslanides
Hybun Publications International
Nigeria
2004
In The Dock
Pat Kasie Nwachukwu
2003
Poems of Many Colours
Majebi Oricha
2003
Waking Dreams
Angela Nwosu
2003
When A Dream Lingers Too Long
Toni Kan
Ibiskos Editrice
2001
On my side of the Shadow
Olimpia Pelosi
icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions
Canada
2018
Otolith
Emily Nilsen
2018
Stray
Allison LaSorda
2017
All The Gold Hurts My Mouth
Katherine Leyton
2017
Caribou Run
Richard Kelly Kemick
2016
Fauxccasional Poems
Daniel Scott Tysdal
2016
Safely Home Pacific Western
Jeff Latosik
2016
The Gun That Starts the Race
Peter Norman
2016
Twoism
Ali Blythe
2014
Bit Parts for Fools
Peter Richardson
2014
Escape Velocity
Carmelita McGrath
2014
How the gods pour tea
Lynn Davies
2014
The house is still standing
Adrienne Barrett
Iguana Books
Canada
2014
Caravaggio's Dagger: A Pursuit of Right Action
Hendrik Slegtenhorst
2012
Reporting From Night
Kateri Lanthier