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.
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
Impossible Belonging
Maya Pindyck
2023
A Sleep that Is Not Our Sleep
E. C. Belli
2021
Shimmer
Mark Irwin
2006
With Your Back To Half the Day
Donald Morrill
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,
Joan Kunsch
2008
Song of the Drunkards
Brad Davis
2005
Stumbling into the Light
Edwina Trentham
Anvil Press
Canada
2023
Cactus Gardens
Evelyn Lau
2023
Catastrophe Theories
Mari-Lou Rowley
2023
Derelict Bicycles
Dale Tracy
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,
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,
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,
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,
Jacques Reda
2006
Wry-Blue Loves
Peter Dale,
Tristan Corbiere
2005
Can Dentists be Trusted:
Martina Evans
2005
Cyprian Kamil Norwid: Selected Poems
Adam Czerniawski,
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
2005
Memory of the Fire
Louis Bourne,
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,
Olav H. Hauge
2004
Naked Lonely Hand
Joe Winter,
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,
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
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
Apogee Press
United States
2023
psalmbook
Laura Walker
2021
Vault
Alice Jones
2013
follow-haswed
Laura Walker
2013
mary bones
Pattie McCarthy
2013
Plunge
Alice Jones
2007
Edge and Fold
Paul Hoover
2005
Gorgeous Mourning
Alice Jones
2005
Verso
Pattie McCarthy
Apprentice House
United States
2023
Children of Someone Else's Longing
Sandra Rokoff-Liznt
2023
Woman by the Door
Kashiana Singh
Aquarius Press/Willow Books
United States
2018
Fabric
Lucinda Roy
2016
Imaginary Animal
Rachelle Escamilla
2016
The Pink Box
Yesenia Montilla