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
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
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
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
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
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
Aquarius Press/Willow Books
United States
2018
Fabric
Lucinda Roy
2016
Imaginary Animal
Rachelle Escamilla
2016
The Pink Box
Yesenia Montilla
Arc Publications
United Kingdom
2021
Bigger than the Facts
Antoinette Fawcett,
Jan Baeke
2021
Brimstone: A Book of Villanelles
John Kinsella
2021
Eternal Traffic
James Sutherland-Smith,
Mila Haugová
2021
On the Nature of the Universe
Emma Gee,
Titus Lucretius Carus
2021
Sometimes a Single Leaf
Iain Galbraith,
Esther Dischereit
2021
The Atlas of Lost Beliefs
Ranjit Hoskote
2020
A Friable Earth
Jackie Wills
2020
Maps of Desire
Anna Crowe,
Manuel Forcano
2020
Not On The Side of The Gods
Anna Crowe
2020
The Caprices
James Byrne
2020
To The Outermost Stars
Agnes Scott Langeland,
Stein Mehren
2019
As Slow As Possible
Kit Fan
2019
Lives of the Dead
Atar Hadari,
Hanoch Levin
2019
The Illegal Age
Ellen Hinsey
2019
The True Height of the Ear
Iain Galbraith
2017
Acres of Light
Katherine Gallagher
2017
Lunarium
Anna Crowe,
Josep Lluis Aguilo
2017
Pages from the Biography of an Exile
Stephen Watts,
Marga Burgui-Artajo,
Adnan Al-Sayegh
2017
Reading the Flowers
Linda France
2017
Subterranea
Joss Smith
2017
The Herring Lass
Michelle Cahill
2017
Until the Lions
Karthika Nair
2017
Window-Cleaner sees Paintings
David Colmer,
Menno Wigman
2016
(O)
Sophie Mayer
2016
Barefoot Souls
Theo Dorgan,
Maram al-Masri
2016
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal
Jan Owen,
Charles Baudelaire
2016
Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees
Iain Galbraith,
Jan Wagner
2016
The End of the Trial of Man
Paul Stubbs
2015
Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw
Ian Crockatt,
Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson
2015
Peatlands
Anna Crowe,
Pedro Serrano
2015
The Spanish-Italian Border
Roisin Tierney
2014
Dinner with Fish and Mirrors
Zorica Petrovic,
James Sutherland-Smith,
Ivana Milankov
2014
Half-Life
Michael Hulse
2014
In a Time of Burning
Lakshmi Holmstrom,
Cheran
2014
Talking Vrouz
2014
Thaw
Katherine Hedeen,
Victor Rodriguez Nunez
2014
Woman's Head as Jug
Jackie Wills
2013
As I Said
G. S. Smith,
Lev Loseff
2013
Days Full of Caves & Tigers
Simon Knight,
Fabio Pusterla
2013
How Abraham Abandoned Me
Ruth Christie,
Bejan Matur
2013
Seizing: Places
Patrick McGuinness,
Helene Dorion
2013
Silence River
Stefan Tobler,
Antonio Moura
2012
A Year in the Bull-Box
Glyn Hughes
2012
Ai! Ai! Pianissimo
Astrid Alben
2012
Claiming Kindred
D. M. Black
2012
The Ballads of Kukutis
Laima Vince,
Marcelijus Martinaitis
2011
A Cure for Woodness
Michael Haslam
2011
The Scent of Your Shadow
Ilmar Lehtpere,
Kristiina Ehin
2011
Whispers & Breath of the Meadows
Armine Tamrazian,
Razmik Davoyan
2010
Blood/Sugar
James Byrne
2010
The Ark Builders
Mary O’Donnell
2010
The Secret History
Michael Hulse
2009
A Ghost in my House
Lorna Thorpe
2009
Comus: A Dialogic Mask
John Kinsella
2009
Guests of Eternity
Richard McKane,
Larissa Miller
2009
Midnight & Other Poems
Radwa Ashour,
Mourid Barghouti
2009
Still Life With Loops
Philip Jenkins,
Eli Tolaretxipi
2009
The Icon Maker
Paul Stubbs
2009
The Night Fountain
Marco Sonzogni,
Gerald Dawe,
Salvatore Quasimodo
2009
Wheel
Michael O’Neill
2008
Commandments
Jackie Wills
2008
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night
Donald Gardner,
Remco Campert
2008
State of Emergency
Tom Cheesman,
John Goodby,
Soleiman Adel Guemar
2007
America or Glow (A Poem)
John Kinsella
2007
Circus-Apprentice
Katherine Gallagher
2007
Hothouse
Tracy Ryan
2007
Radio Nostalgia
Chris Emery
2007
Row
Joshua Beckman,
Tomaz Salamun
2007
Strategies for Confronting Fear
Anthony Lawrence
2007
Twenty Four Preludes and Fuges on Dmitri Shostakovich
Joanna Boulter
2007
We of Zipangu
James Kirkup,
Mutsuo Takahashi
2007
Wolf One-Eye
Mara Rozitis,
Juris Kronbergs
2006
A Sinner Saved by Grace
Michael Haslam
2006
America (A Poem)
John Kinsella
2006
Canal
Saskia Hamilton
2006
Far from Sodom
Daniel Weissbort,
Inna Lisnianskaya
2006
Musica Transalpina
Michelene Wandor
2006
Syllable of Stone
Patrick Lane
2006
The Path to the Sea
Thomas A. Clark
2002
A Constant Level of Illuminations
Donald Atkinson
2002
Inexorable Weather
Louis Armand
2002
Lithium
Emma-Jane Arkady
2002
recycling
Barbara Plebanek,
Adam Czerniawski,
Tadeusz Rózewicz
2002
The Music Laid Her Songs in Language
Michael Haslam
2002
Where are you, Susie Petschek?
Michael Hulse,
Cevat Capan
2001
astro.naut
Brian Henry
2001
The Right Thing
C. K. Stead
2001
Tigers on the Silk Road
Katherine Gallagher
Archipelago Books
United States
2021
Allegria
Geoffrey Brock,
Giuseppe Ungaretti
2017
Vulture in a Cage
Raymond P. Scheindlin,
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
2014
Even Now
David Colmer,
Hugo Claus
2014
Landscape with Yellow Birds
Thomas Christensen,
Jose Angel Valente
2008
new poems
Bill Johnston,
Tadeusz Rózewicz