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.
Alice James Books
United States
2024
Burling Like Her Own Planet
Vandana Khanna
2024
Decade of the Brain
Janine Joseph
2024
Feast
Ina Cariño
2024
I Am the Most Dangerous Thing
Candace Williams
2024
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Katie Farris
2023
American Treasure
Jill McDonough
2023
Brother Sleep
Aldo Amparán
2023
Constellation Route
Matthew Olzmann
2023
Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory
Jeffrey Thomson
2023
Sugar Work
Katie Marya
2023
We Borrowed Gentleness
J. Estanislao Lopez
2021
Arrow
Sumita Chakraborty
2021
Hot with the Bad Things
Lucia LoTempio
2021
Inheritance
Taylor Johnson
2021
Little Envelope of Earth Conditions
Cori A. Winrock
2021
Neck of the Woods
Amy Woolard
2021
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Kazim Ali
2021
Witch
Philip Matthews
2020
Aviva-No
Shimon Adaf (Tr.),
Yael Segalovitz
2020
Bicycle in a ransacked city: an elegy
Andrés Cerpa
2020
Here All Night
Jill McDonough
2020
Monsters I Have Been
Kenji C. Liu
2020
Odes to Lithium
Shira Erlichman
2020
Soft Science
Franny Choi
2019
Anaphora
Kevin Goodan
2019
Ghost, like a Place
Iain Haley Pollock
2019
Isako Isako
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
2019
Of Marriage
Nicole Cooley
2019
pray me stay eager
Ellen Dore Watson
2019
The English Boat
Donald Revell
2019
We, the Almighty Fires
Anna Rose Welch
2018
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Kaveh Akbar
2018
Daylily Called It A Dangerous Moment
Alessandra Lynch
2018
Madwoman
Shara McCallum
2018
Reaper
Jill McDonough
2018
Some Say the Lark
Jennifer Chang
2018
Surgical Wing
Kristin Robertson
2018
The Blessing of Dark Water
Elizabeth Lyons
2017
Contradictions in the Design
Matthew Olzmann
2017
Driving Without a License
Janine Joseph
2017
House of Water
Matthew Nienow
2017
play dead
Francine J. Harris
2017
The Big Book of Exit Strategies
Jamaal May
2017
Thief in the Interior
Phillip B. Williams
2016
Drought-AdaptedVine
Donald Revell
2016
O'Nights
Cecily Parks
2016
Refuge/es
Michael Broek
2016
Sand Opera
Philip Metres
2016
Second Empire
Richie Hofmann
2016
Yearling
Lo Kwa Mei-en
2015
Devil, Dear
Mary Ann McFadden
2015
Money Money Money|Water Water Water
2015
Orphan
Jan Heller Levi
2014
Black Crow Dress
Roxane Beth Johnson
2014
Hum
Jamaal May
2014
Mezzanines
Matthew Olzmann
2014
Obscenely Yours
Angelo Nikolopoulos
2014
Viral
Suzanne Parker
2014
We Come Elemental
Tamiko Beyer
2013
Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Ilya Kaminsky (Tr.),
Jean Valentine (Tr.),
Marina Tsvetaeva
2013
me and Nina
Monica A. Hand
2013
Murder Ballad
Jane Springer
2013
Tantivy
Donald Revell
2013
Western Practice
Stephen Motika
2012
Hagar Before the Occupation Hagar Afater the Occupation
Rebecca Gayle Howell (Tr.),
Husam Qaisi (Tr.),
Amal al-Jubouri
2012
Heart First into the Forest
Stacy Gnall
2012
lie down too
Lesle Lewis
2012
Panic
Laura McCullough
2012
Pier
Janine Oshiro
2012
This Strange Land
Shara McCallum
2011
Father Dirt
Mihaela Moscaliuc
2011
Milk Dress
Nicole Cooley
2011
Parable of Hide and Seek
Chad Sweeney
2011
Phantom Noise
Brian Turner
2010
Rough Cradle
Betsy Sholl
2010
The Bitter Withy
Donald Revell
2009
King Baby
Lia Purpura
2009
The Temple Gate Called Beautiful
2009
The Usable Field
2008
A Thief of Strings
Donald Revell
2008
The Glass Age
2007
Forth A Raven
Christina Davis
2007
Landscapes I & II
Lesle Lewis
2007
Ruin
Cynthia Cruz
2007
The Case Against Happiness
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
2007
The Pitch
Thomas Thompson
2006
Gloryland
Anne Marie Macari
2006
Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems
Donald Revell
2005
Goest
2005
Night of a Thousand Blossoms
Frank X. Gaspar
2004
My Mojave
Donald Revell
2004
The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind
Larissa Szporluk
2003
An Ordinary Day
Keith Waldrop (Tr.),
Xue Di
2003
Sea Gate
Jocelyn Emerson
Allen & Unwin
Australia
2012
Interferon Psalms
Luke Davies
2005
Totem
Luke Davies
2004
One Night
Margaret Wild
An Amzer & Text*ures
2006
Ghazal
Lionel Poiraudeau
Andrews McMeel Publishing
United States
2024
God Themselves
Jae Nichelle
2021
Dear Girl
Aija Mayrock
2020
Sparks of Phoenix
Najwa Zebian
2019
Mind Platter
Najwa Zebian
2009
Bikeman: An Epic Poem
Thomas F. Flynn
Anhinga Press
United States
2024
Careful
Katie Fuller
2024
Impossible Belonging
Maya Pindyck
2023
A Sleep that Is Not Our Sleep
E. C. Belli
2022
Theatrix: Poetry Plays
Terese Svoboda
2021
Shimmer
Mark Irwin
2006
With Your Back To Half the Day
Donald Morrill
Antivirus Publication
England
2022
Selected Poems of Malay Roy Choudhury
Tanvir Ratul (Tr.),
Malay Roy Choudhury
2022
Songs of Charyapada
Tanvir Ratul (Tr.),
Various Authors
Antrim House
United States
2016
My Riastrad
Kevn Hogan
2014
Ancestral Intelligence
Vera Schwarcz
2014
My Father, Humming
Jonathan Gillman
2013
Until Nothing More Can Break
Kate Fetherston
2008
Playing with Gravity
Joan Kunsch (Tr.),
Joan Kunsch
2008
Song of the Drunkards
Brad Davis
2005
Stumbling into the Light
Edwina Trentham
Anvil Press
Canada
2024
Asking for Directions
Matthew Firth
🇨🇦
2024
Fishing for Leviathan
Rodney DeCroo
2024
Reckoning
2024
Swim: into the north's blue eye
Annette Lapointe
🇨🇦
2023
Cactus Gardens
Evelyn Lau
2023
Catastrophe Theories
Mari-Lou Rowley
2023
Derelict Bicycles
Dale Tracy
🇨🇦
2023
This Here Paradise
Calvin Wharton
2022
All the Broken Things
Geoff Inverarity
2022
Moments of Happiness
Patrick Friesen (Tr.),
Per Brask (Tr.),
Niels Hav
2022
No Shelter
Henry Doyle
2022
Scofflaw
Garry Thomas Morse
2021
Hearts Amok
Kevin Spenst
2021
Low Centre of Gravity
Michael Dennis
2021
Pineapple Express
Evelyn Lau
2021
The Headless Man
Peter Dubé
2020
A Mysterious Humming Noise
Howard White
2020
Bounce House
Jennica Harper
2020
Float and Scurry
Heather Birrell
2020
Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
Stuart Ross
2019
Bolt
Hilary Peach
2019
Slinky Naïve
Caroline Szpak
2019
Trauma Head
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
2018
Escape from Wreck City
John Creary
2018
Leaving Mile End
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2017
Assdeep in Wonder
Christopher Gudgeon
2017
Ignite
Kevin Spenst
2017
Serpentine Loop
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
2016
Foreign Park
Jeff Steudel
2016
Jabbering with Bing Bong
Kevin Spenst
2016
Rue
Melissa Bull
2014
Advance Payment
David Colmer (Tr.),
Nachoem M. Wijnberg
2014
Eventualities
John Birtwhistle
2014
Glossolalia
Marita Dachsel
2014
The Empty Air: New Poems 2006-2012
Tony Connor
2014
This Drawn & Quartered Moon
Klipschutz
2014
Unus Mundus
Mari-Lou Rowley
2014
Wood
Jennica Harper
2013
A Dark Boat
2013
Angels and Harvesters
James Harpur
2013
Dear Life
Dennis O’Driscoll
2013
Trobairitz
Catherine Owen
2013
You Exist. Details Follow.
Stuart Ross
2012
Galaxy
Rachel Thompson
2012
Planet-Struck
Julian Turner
2012
The Song Collides
Calvin Wharton
2011
Vs.
Kerry Ryan
2010
Frenzy
Catherine Owen
2010
Inventory
Marguerite Pigeon
2009
Material
Ros Barber
2009
Salvation Jane
Greta Stoddart
2009
Suicide Psalms
Mari-Lou Rowley
2009
The Golden Boat
Joe Winter (Tr.),
Rabindranath Tagore
2009
The Maltese Dreambook
Gabriel Levin
2009
What It Feels Like for a Girl
Jennica Harper
2008
I Cut My Finger
Stuart Ross
2008
Rental Van
Clint Burnham
2007
Bengal the Beautiful
Joe Winter (Tr.),
Jibanananda Das
2007
Biographies etc.
Ruth Silcock
2007
Cusp/detritus: an experiment-in alleyways
Catherine Owen
2007
Orphan Sites
Julian Turner
2007
Things Unsaid: New & Selected Poems 1960-2005
Tony Connor
2006
Bizarre Winery Tragedy
Lyle Neff
2006
Merchant Prince
Thomas McCarthy
2006
The Lost Notebook
Jennie Feldman
2006
The Sleep of Four Cities
Jen Currin
2006
Treading Lightly
Jennie Feldman (Tr.),
Jacques Reda
2006
Wry-Blue Loves
Peter Dale (Tr.),
Tristan Corbiere
2005
Can Dentists be Trusted:
Martina Evans
2005
Cyprian Kamil Norwid: Selected Poems
Adam Czerniawski (Tr.),
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
2005
Memory of the Fire
Louis Bourne (Tr.),
Justo Jorge Padron
2005
New and Selected Poems
Dennis O’Driscoll
2005
Singer, An Elegy
George Fetherling
2005
Songs of Imperfection
Stanley Moss
2005
Unravel
Tammy Armstrong
2005
Viral Suite
Mari-Lou Rowley
2005
Walking out of the World
Matthew Mead
2005
Wild and Wounded
Michael Hamburger
2004
Dancers in Daylight
Anthony Howell
2004
Fire Stations
A. B. Jackson
2004
Guest and Host
Joe Winter
2004
Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses
Robin Fulton (Tr.),
Olav H. Hauge
2004
Naked Lonely Hand
Joe Winter (Tr.),
Jibanananda Das
2004
Seamanship
Gavin Bantock
2004
Sideways
Heather Haley
2003
A Puzzling Harvest
Harry Guest
2003
A Rough Climate
E. A. Markham
2003
Belonging
Dick Davis
2003
Exemplary Damages
Dennis O’Driscoll
2003
From a Diary of Non-Events
Michael Hamburger
2003
Just Think of It
Gavin Bantock
2003
Letters to Ted
Daniel Weissbort
2003
Lighting the Steps
Philip Holmes
2003
Under the Breath
Peter Dale
2002
At Home in the Dark
Greta Stoddart
2002
Oracle Bones
James Harpur
2002
Song Offerings
Joe Winter (Tr.),
Rabindranath Tagore
2001
Full Magpie Dodge
Lyle Neff
2001
Intersections
Michael Hamburger
2001
Snatch
Judy Jr. MacINNIS
Anvil Press/A Feed Dog Book
Canada
2023
But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves
Conyer Clayton
2022
il virus
Lillian Necakov
2022
Mouthfuls of Space
Tom Prime
2021
Queen and Carcass
Anna van Valkenburg
2020
The Inflatable Life
Mark Laba
2019
I Heard Something
Jaime Forsythe
2019
I Heard Something
Jaime Forsythe
2019
On the Count of None
Allison Chisholm