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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.

Ekstasis Editions

Canada
2008
1970: a novel poem
Elizabeth Rhett Woods
2008
Blues for the Grauballeman
Ken Cathers
2008
Hierarchy of Loss
Steven McCabe
2008
Kites
George Whipple
2008
Ordinary Days
Cornelia C. Hornosty
2008
Paper Trombones: notes on poetics
Mike Doyle
2008
splitting the heart
Janet Marie Rogers
2008
The Eye on Fire
A. F. Moritz, Ludwig Zeller
2008
Wintering
Rosemary Blake

Exile Editions

Canada
2008
Arithmetic of Surrender
Tana Runyan
2008
Asterisks
David Wevill
2008
Green
Marilyn Bowering
2008
Mooncalves
Kathleen McCracken
2008
Peindicy
Mike Scertzer
2008
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Troy Jollimore

Faber & Faber

United Kingdom
2008
Collected Poems
Paul Auster
2008
Crocodiles and Obelisks
Jamie McKendrick
2008
Look We Have Coming To Dover!
Daljit Nagra
2008
On Purpose
Nick Laird
2008 Shortlisted
2008
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Simon Armitage, Gawain Poet
2008
The Holy Land
Maurice Riordan

factory school

2008
Chanteuse/Cantatrice
Catherine Daly

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

United States
2008
Blackbird and Wolf
Henri Cole
2008
Gulf Music
Robert Pinsky
2008
Littlefoot
2008
Quiver of Arrows
2008
Wideawake Field
Eliza Griswold

Fence Books

United States
2008
Bad Bad
Chelsey Minnis
2008
Infamous Landscapes
Prageeta Sharma
2008
Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain
Christopher Janke

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Canada
2008
Crown and Ribs
Blaise Moritz
2008
Recollected Poems 1951-2004
Daryl Hine

Five Islands Press

Australia
2008
Mr Wittgenstein's Lion
Kevin Brophy
2008
Nowhere To Go
Alan Loney
2008
The Sweeping Plain
Michael Sharkey
2008
Transit
Mike Ladd
2008
Uncommon Light
Brook Emery
2008
Uplands
Louise Crisp

Frontenac House

Canada
2008
Contrary Infatuations
Dymphny Dronyk
2008
Impersonating Flowers
David Bateman
2008
She Dreams In Red
Alexis Kienlen
2008
The Bride Anthology
Patria Rivera

Gaspereau Press

Canada
2008
Actualities
Monica Kidd
2008
Broken Vessel: Thirty-five Days in the Desert
Harry Thurston
2008
The Alma Elegies
Allan Cooper
2008
Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path
George Elliott Clarke

Giramondo Publishing

Australia
2008
An Illustrated History of Dairies
Joanne Burns
2008
Not Finding Wittgenstein
J. S. Harry

Godine

United States
2008
Toad to a Nightingale
Brad Leithauser

Gomer Press

United Kingdom
2008
Going Gentle
Fiona Owen
2008
Trouble in Heaven
John Barnie

Goose Lane Editions

Canada
2008
Beatitudes
Jo-Anne Elder, Herménégilde Chiasson
2008
Falsework
Gary Geddes
2008
The Sweet Fuels
Erin Knight

Gores Press

Malaysia
2008
If Only
Shahril Nizam

Graywolf Press

United States
2008
2008
Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
2008
Meanwhile Take My Hand
Elizabeth Macklin, Kirmen Uribe
2008
Modern Life
Matthea Harvey
2008
The Kitchen Sink: New & Selected Poems 1972-2007
Albert Goldbarth
2008
The Lyrics
2008
The Resurrection Trade
Leslie Adrienne Miller

Guernica Editions

Canada
2008
All that lies between us
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2008
Lessons of Chaos and Disaster
Catherine Black
2008
Selected Poems
Laurence Hutchman
2008
Seventeen Trees
Marianne Micros
2008
Subway Medusa
Clara Blackwood
2008
The Night will be insistent
Daniel Sloate, Denise Desautels

Hagios Press

Canada
2008
Accidental Animals
Michael Trussler
2008
Erratic
Donna Kane
2008
Hands Reaching in Water
Gary Hyland
2008
The Pear Orchard
Joanne Weber

Hanging Loose Press

United States
2008
Boy Drinkers
Terence Winch
2008
Cadenza
Charles North
2008
Doing 70
Hettie Jones
2008
My Body: New and Selected Poems
Joan Larkin
2008
Overnight
Paul Violi

Harbor Mountain Press

United States
2008
Be that Empty
Alice B. Fogel