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.
In Our Words
Canada
2017
Moving Waters
John Ambury
2016
Crossroads and Beyond
Mahmood Mustafa
2016
Elementals
Bradley McIlwain
2016
Letters from the Singularity
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
2016
Skirting the Edge
I. B. Iskov
2014
Ravings of a Lunatic Saint
Susan Munro
2012
Bruised but Unbroken
Cheryl Antao-Xavier
2012
Pressure to Sing: Poems
Brandon Pitts
2011
Giving into Gravity: poems
Elizabeth Barnes
2011
Inland Waterways: poems from a peaceable kingdom
Linda Cassidy
2011
Sacrifice: poems on the Indian Arrival in Guyana
Peter Jailall
2010
Musings of an Earth Angel
Linda L. Dowd
2010
On the Wings of Dawn
Maria Pia Marchelletta
2010
Swimming to the Surface
Saskia Maddock
2009
Dance of the Peacock
Cheryl Antao-Xavier
Inanna Publications
Canada
2021
Festival of All Souls
Jean Eng
2021
Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems
Ruth Panofsky
2021
some conditions apply
Mary Rykov
2021
The Negation of Chronology: Imagining Geraldine Moodie
Rebecca Luce-Kapler
2021
The Path of Lineliness
Candice James
2021
To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters
Gianna Patriarca
2020
Any Waking Morning
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
2020
Falling Backwards into Mirrors
Anne Sorbie
2020
Radiant
Kate Marshall Flaherty
2020
Salt Bride
Ilona Martonfi
2020
The Colour of Clouds
Linda Martin
2020
We Are Malala
Katerina Vaughan Fretwell
2019
Anatomy of an Injury
Myna Wallin
2019
Every Shameless Ray
Leslie Timmins
2019
Hiraeth
Carol Rose Daniels
2019
Practical Anxiety
Heidi Greco
2019
Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning
Rayanne Haines
2019
The Seeker Ascends
Merle Nudelman
2018
A Samurai's Pink House
Sonia Saikaley
2018
Journeywoman
Carolyne Van Der Meer
2018
Kalamkari and Cordillera: Poems of India and Chile
Wanda Campbell
2018
Simultaneous Windows
Mary Corkery
2018
The Size of a Bird
Clementine Morrigan
2017
Leave-Taking
Marilyn Potter
2017
Red with Living
Diane Driedger
2017
The Largeness of Rescue
Eva Tihanyi
2016
Dancing on a Pin
Katerina Fretwell
2016
Terra Incognita
Adebe DeRango-Adem
2016
The Snow Kimono
Ilona Martonfi
2015
Journey
Lilly Barnes
2015
Passing Stranger
Pam Galloway
2015
The Hungry Grass
A. Mary Murphy
2015
Understories
Elizabeth Greene
2014
Class Acts
Katerina Vaughan Fretwell
2014
Dark Water Songs
Mary Lou Soutar Hynes
2014
Engagement Calendar
Mary Aird Rutherford
2014
Rebel Women
Vancy Kasper
2013
A Tilt
Farideh de Bosset
2013
The Book of Changes
Madeline Sonik
2012
Angelic Scintillations
Katerina Vaughan Fretwell
2012
First Woman
Patricia Keeney
2012
Grace Shiver
Cathy Stonehouse
2011
In the Key of Red
Eva Tihanyi
2011
Martha in the Mirror
Renee Norman
2011
Moving
Elizabeth Greene
2011
Singing Me Home
Carol Lipszyc
2010
Gravity Matters
Sonja Ruth Greckol
2010
Letter Out: Letter In
Salimah Valiani
2009
Stone Sightings
Madeline Sonik
2009
The Cuckoo's Song/Le Chang du Coucou
Jacqueline Borowick
2009
White Album
Rishma Dunlop
2008
Backhand Through the Mother
Renee Norman
2008
Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices
Ruth Panofsky
2006
True Confessions
Renee Norman
independent press (University Book Exchange)
United States
2005
Every Insomniac Has A Story To Tell
Patrick Bizzaro
Indiana University Press
United States
2021
God Had a Body
Jennie Malbouef
2019
Girl with Death Mask
Jennifer Girhan
Indo-American Literary Acacemy
United States
2012
Universal Humming and Other Poems
Chandrakant P. Desai
Inkwell
2001
The Magic Of Love
Michael Poynder
Insomniac Press
Canada
2015
Blind Items
Dina Del Bucchia
2014
The Loneliness Machine
Giovannone Aaron
2014
Unknown Actor
Jason Christie
2013
Doom: Love Poems for Supervillains
Natalie Zina Walschots
2013
Notebook M
Savigny
2013
The Hard Return
Marcus McCann
2012
Grung of the Minotaur
Robin Richardson
2012
Love Figures
Sam Cheuk
2011
Tiny, Frantic, Stronger
Jeff Latosik
2011
Winterkill
Catherine Graham
2010
Naming The Mannequins
Nic Labriola
2010
Porcupine Archery
Bill Howell
2010
Wanton
Angela Hibbs
2009
iNTO tHE dROwNED wORL_D
Ryan Kamstra
2009
The Debaucher
Jason Camlot
2009
The Red Element
Catherine Graham
2008
A Newer Wilderness
Roseanne Carrara
2008
Shell
Olive Senior
2007
Creamsicle Stick Shivs
John Stiles
2007
Every Inadequate Name
Nick Thran
2006
Man and Beast
Eric Cole
2006
over the roofs of the world
Olive Senior
2005
Parts Unknown
Michael Holmes
2004
Outside Magic
Noah Leznoff
2004
Pupa
Catherine Graham
2003
Early Poems
2003
Late Capitalist Sublime
Ryan Kamstra
2003
Scouts are Cancelled
John Stiles
2002
Awful Gestures
Adrienne Weiss
2002
Gentle Fictions
Sherwin Tjia
2001
A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking
Matt Robinson
2001
Balance Act
Ken Cormier
2001
Only the Ghost has Lasted
Nancy Dembowski
Interactive Publications
Australia
2019
Dandelions for Bhabha
Clara A. B. Joseph
2019
The Postcult Heart
Susan Bradley Smith
2017
The Face of the Other
Clara A. B. Joseph
2015
Convent Mermaid
Rod Usher
2015
Second Thoughts
B. N. Oakman
2013
Even Grimmer Tales
Valerie Volk
2013
Flaubert's Drum
Sugu Pillay
2013
Night's Glass Table
Karen Zelas
2011
Designs on the body
Lyn Reeves
2011
In Defence of Haiwaiian Shirts
Bruce N. Oakman
2011
Ruin
Roberta Lowing
2011
Stitching Things Together
Leah Kaminsky
2011
Taste of Apple
James Laidler
2009
Death and the Motorway
David Gilbey
2009
Harmonic
Stephen Oliver
2009
in between the dancing
E. A. Gleeson
2009
Invaders of the Heart
Lee Knowles
2009
the possibility of flight
Lia Hills
2007
3rd i
Basil Eliades
2007
Dark Husk of Beauty
Andrew Leggett
2007
Fresh News from Arctic
Libby Hart
2007
The Accidental Cage
Michelle Cahill
2007
The Possibility of Winds
Rosemary Huisman
2004
I'll Howl Before You Bury Me
Liam Guilar
2004
Kiss & Tell: Selected & New Poems 1987-2002
David Reiter
2004
minorphysics
Paul Mitchell
2003
Kiss and Tell
David P. Reiter
2003
Poems for America
David Rowbotham
2002
Frankenstein's Bathtub
Tricia Dearborn
2002
Meditations at the Edge of a Dream
Beatriz Copello
2002
The Ventriloquist's Child
Clayton Hansen
2001
Letters we never sent
David P. Reiter