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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.

Lotus Press

United States
2011
Chronicles of The Pig & Other Delusions
Edward Bruce Bynum
2003
Immersion
James R. Whitley

Loyola Press

United States
2005
Dancing with my Daughter
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer

LSU Press

United States
2021
Atomizer: Poems
Elizabeth A. I. Powell
2021
Mothers of Ireland: Poems
Julie Kane
2021
No More Time
Greg Delanty
2021
Prospects
Judith Hall
2021
Refusal: Poems
Jenny Molberg
2020
Memoria
Orlando Ricardo Menes
2020
Still Life with Mother and Knife
Chelsea Rathburn
2020
The Grace of Distance
Matthew Thorburn
2020
Words Written Against the Walls of the City
Bruce Bond
2019
Eon
T. R. Hummer
2019
Tramp
Joelle Biele
2017
Dear Almost: Poems
Matthew Thorburn
2017
From Nothing: Poems
Anya Krugovoy Silver
2016
Book Seventeen
Greg Delanty
2016
Small Mothers of Fright
Tara Bray
2016
The Diener
Martha Serpas
2015
Cosmos: A Poem
James Applewhite
2015
Skandalon
T. R. Hummer
2015
The View from Saturn
Alice Friman
2015
Venera: Poems
Jay Rogoff
2013
The Visible
Bruce Bond
2012
Talking about Movies with Jesus
2012
The Art of Gravity
Jay Rogoff
2010
houses are fields
Taije Silverman
2010
Shadow Box
Fred Chappell
2010
The Retreats of Thought
Kelly Cherry
2010
The Whole Nine Yards
Daniel Hoffman
2009
Blind Rain
Bruce Bond
2009
Creatures of a Day
Reginald Gibbons
2009
Figure Studies
Claudia Emerson
2009
Glory River
David Huddle
2009
It was a terrible cloud at twilight
Alessandra Lynch
2009
Litanies near Water
Paula Closson Buck
2009
Myself Painting
Clarence Major
2009
Sex at Noon Taxes
Sally Van Doren
2009
Slantwise
Betty Adcock
2009
The House of Marriage
Erin Hanusa
2009
The Long Fault
Jay Rogoff
2009
The Snow's Music
Floyd Skloot
2009
Time and the Tilting Earth
Miller Williams
2009
Whirl Is King
Brendan Galvin
2008
Blessings and Inclemencies: Poems
Constance Merritt
2008
Floating City: Poems
Anne Pierson Wiese
2008
From Whence: Poems
Michael Chitwood
2008
Geronimo After Kas-ki-yeh: Poems
Rawdon Tomlinson
2008
Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems
Kelly Cherry
2008
Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005
Ron Smith
2008
Ocean Effects: Poems
Brendan Galvin
2008
One Body: Poems
Margaret Gibson
2008
Range of Light: Poems
Catharine Savage Brosman
2008
The Devil's Cookbook: Poems
Sue Owen
2008
The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two
Jay Wright
2008
The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems
2008
The Ship of Birth: Poems
Greg Delanty
2008
Without a Philosophy: Poems
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
2007
A Diary of Altered Light
James Applewhite
2007
Coming to Rest
Kathryn Byer
2007
Crooked Run
Henry Taylor
2007
Kitchen Heat
Ava Haymon
2007
The End of Dreams
Floyd Skloot
2006
60
Judy Jordan
2006
Habitat: New & Selected Peoms, 1965-2005
Brendan Galvin
2006
late wife
Claudia Emerson
2006
Little Boats, Unsalvaged Poems 1992-2004
Dave Smith
2006
madness like morning glories
Doris Davenport
2006
Resin
Geri Doran
2006
Skyspeak
Jan Heller Levi
2006
The Cachoeira Tales & Other Poems
Marilyn Nelson
2006
The Haitual Peacefulness of Gruchy
David Middleton
2006
The Infinity Sessions
T. R. Hummer
2006
Weather Permitting
Stephen Sandy
2006
What Travels With Us
Darnell Arnoult
2005
Backsass
Fred Chappell
2005
Double Life
Daniel Tobin
2005
Grayscale
David Huddle
2005
invisible bride
Tony Tost
2005
Joy in the Morning
Claude Wilkinson
2005
Last Exposures
Cathryn Hankla
2005
Lure
Nils Michals
2005
Music from Apartment 8
John Stone
2005
Powers and Boundaries
Thomas Reiter
2005
The Afflicted Girls
Nicole Cooley
2005
The Strange Attractor
Robert Morgan
2005
The Strict Economy of Fire
Ava Leavell Haymon
2005
The White Train
John Spaulding
2004
Autumn Grasses
Margaret Gibson
2004
Beyond Silence
Daniel Hoffman
2004
Brightwood
R. T. Smith
2004
Crazy Love
Anthony Petrosky
2004
Not Till We Are Lost
William Wenthe
2004 Shortlisted
2004
Place Keepers
Brendan Galvin
2004
tenderness shore
Meredith Stricker
2004 Shortlisted
2004
The Man Who Loves Cezanne
Dabney Stuart
2004
The Muscled Truce
Catharine Savage Brosman
2003
Catching Light: Poems
Kathryn Stripling Byer
2003
Celestial Bodies: Poems
Sidney Wade
2003
Darkening Water: Poems
Daniel Hoffman
2003
It's Time: Poems
Reginald Gibbons
2003
Out of the South: Poems
Neal Bowers
2003
Pinion: An Elegy
Claudia Emerson
2003
Rising Venus: Poems
Kelly Cherry
2003
Surface Impressions: A Poem
Stephen Sandy
2003
The Invisible World: Poems
John Canaday
2002
Anvil, Clock & Last: Poems
Paulette Roeske
2002
Falling from Silence: Poems
David R. Slavitt
2002
Icon and Evidence: Poems
Margaret Gibson
2002
Intervale: New and Selected Poems
Betty Adcock
2002
Messenger: Poems
R. T. Smith
2002
Radio, Radio: Poems
Ben Doyle
2002
Sallies: Poems
R. H. W. Dillard
2002
Useless Virtues: Poems
T. R. Hummer
2001
Family Gathering
Fred Chappell
2001
The Wick of Memory
Dave* Smith
2001
Transfigurations: Collected Poems
Jay Wright

LSU Press/Pleiades Press

United States
2006
motherhouse
Kathleen Jesme

Luath Press

United Kingdom
2021
Doors Tae Naewye
Christie Williamson
2021
I Like Your Hat
Magi Gibson
2020
Cosmos Mariner
Mike Harding
2020
Taking Flight
Aileen Ballantyne
2019
Floating the Woods
Ken Cockburn
2019
Happily Drowning
Kokumo Rocks
2019
Heliopolis
Hugh McMillan
2019
Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland
Gerda Stevenson
2019
The Conversation of Sheep
Hugh McMillan
2019
Transitory
Anne Pia
2014
The Connemara Cantos
Mike Harding
2008
Beyond the Sun
Edwin Morgan
2008
Bodywork
Dilys Rose
2004
Bad Ass Raindrop
Kokumo Rocks
2004
Kate o Shanter's Tale and Other Poems
Matthew Fitt
2004
Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and Other Poems
Gerry Cambridge
2004
Picking Brambles
Des Dillon
2004
Sex, Death and Football
Alistair Findlay
2004
Talking with Tongues
Brian D. Finch

Luna Publications

Canada
2008
Ceasefire in Purgatory
Colin Carberry
2008
Making Bones Walk
Alex Boyd

Lynx House Press

United States
2017
Walks Along the Ditch
Bill Tremblay
2016
Elephant Raga
Prartho Sereno
2016
The Only Afterlife
Marieve Rugo
2004
A Book Called Rats
Miguel Murphy
2004
American Fires
Floyce Alexander
2004
An Indigo Scent After The Rain
James Grabill
2004
Change, The Skinny Man
Robert Gregory

M Graphics Publishing

United States
2021
Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant
Maxim D. Shrayer

MacMillan Publishers Limited

United Kingdom
2003
Selected Poems
Armine Tamrazian, Razmik Davoyan

Madhu Nenvani

India
2004
Surface of the Sea
Nisha Jeswani, Pahlaj Jeswani, Mahesh Nenvani

Madrigal Press

Canada
2002
Ralph: This is for the Night People
Ralph Alfonso

Magabala Books

Australia
2017
Lemons in the ChickenWire
Alison Whittaker

Mahaveer Publishers

India
2016
PLS - Poems, Love Letters & Songs
Ehsaan Nashad

Main Street Rag Publishing Company

United States
2019
Spokes of an Uneven Wheel
Colin Dodds
2016
A Woman's Season
Jacqueline Johnson
2015
The Countries We Live In
David Radavich
2011
Another Word for Home
Steve Roberts
2011
Big Silences in a Year of Rain
Doris Ferleger
2011
Commotion of Wings
Collette Tennant
2011
Courage of Straw
Robert Abbate
2011
God's Optimism
Yehoshua November
2011
Paternity
Scott Owens
2011
The Decadent Lovely
Amy Pence
2011
The Fourth Paradise
V. P. Loggins
2011
The Language of Shedding Skin
Niki Herd
2011
Wave
Andrew Sofer
2011
Where Once
Sally Allen McNall
2007
Any Second Now
Mark Smith-Soto
2007
Salt Memory
Jennifer Sweeney
2007
Taproot
Indigo Moore
2007
The Definition of Place
Randall Horton
2007
What Flies Away
Ann Campanella

Make Now Press

United States
2008
Traffic
Kenneth Goldsmith
2006
The Weather
Kenneth Goldsmith

Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books

Malaysia
2019
Visiting the Land of Buds by Kamala
Mohamed Ashraq Mohamed Amin, Kamala

Mallory Publishing

United Kingdom
2007
The Price of Memory
Mildred Kiconco Barya

Malthouse Press Limited

Nigeria
2007
In the House of Words
Tanure Ojaide

Mammoth Books

United States
2007
The Palace of Reasons
Scott Minar

Manor House Publishing

Canada
2021
Snowman
R. J. Keeler
2012
Briar Rose
Alyxandra Harvey
2012
Caught in Time
Jane Eamon