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.
Mansfield Press
Canada
2020
A Halt Which Is Empty
Rob McLennan
2020
Breakfast with a Heron
James Hawes
2020
Deboning a Dragon
Julie Hartley
2020
Doubter's Hymnal
Laura Cok
2020
The Loudest thing
Joshua Levy
2020
Unless Acted Upon
Tim Conley
2020
What to wear when surviving a lion attack
Paola Ferrante
2019
The Gravel Lot that was Montana
Daniel Lockhart
2018
Glutton for Punishment
Christopher Doda
2018
Mechanics of a Gaze
Branka Petrovic
2018
Spit on the Devil
Samantha Bernstein
2018
The Better Monsters
Puneet Dutt
2018
Walking
Nelson Ball
2018
Whatever, Iceberg
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
2017
All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
Stephen Brockwell
2017
Book of Short Sentences
Alice Burdick
2017
Chewing Water
Nelson Ball
2017
Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
Jason Heroux
2017
My Life Without Me
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2017
Saint Twin
Sarah Burgoyne
2017
Shiner
Eva H. D.
2017
Yes or Nope
Meaghan Strimas
2016
Abnormal Brain Sonnets
2016
Last Stop, Lonesome Town
Tara Azzopardi
2016
Love Me Tender
Nick Papaxanthos
2016
My Planet of Kites
Stuart Ross,
Michelle Winters,
Marie Eve Comtois
2016
punchlines
Aaron Tucker
2016
Rotten Perfect Mouth
Eva H. D.
2016
Sabotage
2016
The Purpose Pitch
Kathryn Mockler
2015
Moon Baboon Canoe
Gary Barwin
2015
poems suitable to certain material conditions
Frank Davey
2015
Shouting Your Name DownThe Well
2015
Some Mornings
Nelson Ball
2015
Some Talk of Being Human
Laura Farina
2015
Yaw
Dani Couture
2014
Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books
Stephen Brockwell
2014
Monkey Soap
Glen Downie
2014
Summer Sport
2014
Teeth
2014
Water Damage
Peter Norman
2014
What the World Said
Jason Camlot
2013
Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra
Jim Smith
2013
Holler
Alice Burdick
2013
In This Thin Rain
Nelson Ball
2013
Natural Capital
Jason Heroux
2013
Sympathy Loophole
Jaime Forsythe
2012
Campfire Radio Rhapsody
Robert Earl Stewart
2012
Hooligans
Lillian Necakov
2012
Lover Through Departure
Rishma Dunlop
2012
The Crystal Palace
Carey Toane
2011
At the Gates of the Theme Park
Peter Norman
2011
Goodbye, Ukelele
Leigh Nash
2011
Stray Dog Embassy
Natasha Nuhanovic
2011
Winter Sport: Poems
2010
Something Burned Along the Southern Border
Robert Earl Stewart
2009
Be Calm, Honey
2009
Emergency Hallelujah
Jason Heroux
2009
Flutter
Alice Burdick
2009
Souls in Plain Clothes
Corrado Paina
2008
Aesthetics Lesson
Christopher Doda
2008
Floors of Enduring Beauty
Steve Venright
2008
The Bone Broker
Lillian Necakov
2007
Stations of the Lost
Brian Wickers
2007
The Alphabet of the Traveler
Corrado Paina
2007
The Milk of Birds
Gary Michael Dault
2007
The Visible World
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2006
Another Name for Bridge
Suzanne Hancock
2006
Fever
Leanne Averbach
2006
First Comes Love
Pino Coluccio
2006
Metropolis
Rishma Dunlop
2005
Dead Men of the Fifties
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2005
Memoirs of an Alias
Jason Heroux
2005
The Dowry of Education
Corrado Paina
2005
The Profane Earth
Ollivier Dyens
2004
Late in a Slow Time
Carole Glasser Langille
2004
The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet
Jeanette Lynes
2004
The Dark Time of Angesl
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2003
In The Terrible Weather of Guns
John B. Lee
2003
The Body of My Garden
Rishma Dunlop
2003
The Honeymoon Wilderness
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2002
Living in Paradise - New & Selected Poems
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2001
Learning Russian
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
2001
The Last Thing Standing
Ann Shin
2001
Wipe Under A Love
Margaret Christakos
Many Mountains Moving Press
United States
2012
Underground (Notes toward an Autobiography)
Patrick Lawler
2011
All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song
Rebecca Foust
March/Abrazo Press
2001
Earth Elegance
Cynthia Gallaher
Marick Press
United States
2014
Red Flower, White Flower
Mengying Han,
Aaron Crippen,
Jennifer Tseng
2011
Corinthian Copper
J. Kates,
Regina Derieva
2011
Leave Me Hidden
Franz Wright
2008
Folding a River
Kawita Kandpal
Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
United States
2014
A Clown at Midnight
Andrew Hudgins
2014
Without a Claim
Grace Schulman
Marsh Hawk Press
United States
2021
Blood Memory
Gail Newman
2020
The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku
Eileen R. Tabios
2006
Somehow
Burt Kimmelman
2006
The After-Death History of My Mother
Sandy McIntosh
2003
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole
Eileen R. Tabios
Mawenzi House
Canada
2021
Bittersweet
Natasha Ramoutar
2021
Finish This Sentence
Leslie Roach
2021
Hands for Language
Uma Menon
2021
The Four Sufferings
Terry Watada
2021
Understand
Gavin Barrett
2020
Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets
Ayaz Pirani
2020
Polychromasia
Mohineet Kaur Boparai
2020
SH:LAM (The Doctor)
Joseph A. Dandurand
2019
Blueberries and Apricots
Howard Scott,
Natasha Kanape Fontaine
2019
Monsoon on the Fingers of God
Sasenarine Persaud
2019
Rouge
Adrian De Leon
2019
Then There Were No Witnesses
Geetha Sikermaran,
Ahilan
2018
How to Dance in This Rarefied Air
Rienzi Crusz
2017
Assi Manifesto
Howard Scott,
Natasha Kanape Fontaine
2017
The Greatest Films
Faizal Deen
2016
Bodymap
Leah Lakshmi Pipezna-Samarasinha
2016
de book of Mary
Pamela Mordecai
2016
Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes
Howard Scott,
Natasha Kanapé
2016
Flesh, Tongue
Yaya Yao
Mayapple Press
United States
2021
The Way Through
Judith Kunst
2021
What Is in the Blood
Ellen Stone
2020
Amateur Husbandry
Phillip Sterling
2020
Every Where West
Chris Green
2020
One Less River
Terry Blackhawk
2019
English Kills
Monica Wendel
2018
Bird Years
Dicko King
2018
Distant Music
John Palen
2018
Map Traces, Blood Traces
Carolyne Wright,
Eugenia Toledo
2018
Wild Roses
Jan Minich
2017
Ledge
Nola Garrett
2017
Memos from the Broken World
Jean Nordhaus
2017
The Silence of the Hours
Don Cellini,
Amanda Reveron
2017
The Thirteenth Hour
Zelda Kahan Newman,
Rivka Basman Ben-Haim
2017
White Food
Toni Mergentime Levi
2016
Alloy
Jan Bottiglieri
2016
Apology of a Girl Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell
Devon Moore
2016
Buick City
Sarah Carson
2016
Leavened
Doris Ferleger
2016
Mendeleev's Mandala
Jessica Goodfellow
2016
The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time
Helen Ruggieri
2016
The Robot Scientist's Daughter
Jeannine Hall Gailey
2016
What Snakes Want
Kita Shantiris
2015
4 Rms w Vu
Susana H. Case
2015
Strange Life
Eleanor Lerman
2014
Candidates for Sainthood and Other Sinners
Fer de la Cruz,
Don Cellini
2014
Feeding Wild Birds
Robert Haight
2014
Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore
Penelope Scambly Schott
2014
Miss Unthinkable
Pamela Miller
2014
Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist
Gerry LaFemina
2014
Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape
Marjorie Manwaring
2014
The Pastor's Wife Considers Pinball
Nola Garrett
2011
Cyborgia
Susan Slaviero
2011
Six Lips
Penelope Scambly Schott
2011
The Angel Voices: A Poem
William Heyen
2011
Translate into English
Don Cellini
2008
House
Mariela Griffor
McArthur & Company
Canada
2008
Threats and Gossip
Joe Cummings
2002
Hogg: The Seven Last Words
Barry Callaghan
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
2023
Shortlisted
2022
Shortlisted
2021
Winner
2020
Shortlisted
2020
Winner
2018
Shortlisted
2016
Winner
2014
Shortlisted
2014
Winner
2011
Shortlisted
2011
Winner
2007
Winner
2005
Winner
2005
Shortlisted
2004
Winner
2003
Shortlisted
2001
Shortlisted
2021
And Yet
2021
Burning Province
Michael Prior
2021
Washes, Prays
Noor Naga
2021
What Hurts Going Down
Nancy Lee
2020
Cluster
Souvankham Thammavongsa
2020
Drolleries
Cassidy McFadzean
2020
Strange Attractor
2019
Dreampad
Jeff Latosik
2019
I left nothing inside on purpose
Stevie Howell
2018
Admission Requirements
Phoebe Wang
2018
All We Saw
2018
Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar
2018
Thing Is
Suzannah Showler
2017
Desecrations
Matt Rader
2017
Don't be Interesting
Jacob McArthur Mooney
2017
Float
2017
Settler Education
Laurie D. Graham
2017
The Names
Tim Lilburn
2016
A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes
Madhur Anand
2016
Hacker Packer
Cassidy McFadzean
2016
The Wrong Cat
Lorna Crozier
2015
Complicity
Adam Sol
2014
Supplying Salt and Light
Lorna Goodison
2013
Antigonick
2013
Assiniboia
Tim Lilburn
2013
Paradoxides
2013
Rain; road; an open boat
2012
Folk
Jacob McArthur Mooney
2012
Is
2012
Origami Dove
2012
Small Mechanics
Lorna Crozier
2011
Deepwater Vee
Melanie Siebert
2011
The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Paul Vermeersch
2009
Orphic Politics
Tim Lilburn
2009
The Dream World
Alison Pick
2009
The Given
Daphne Marlatt
2009
The New Layman's Almanac
Jacob McArthur Mooney
2008
Killarnoe
Sonnet L’Abbe
2008
Quick
2008
The Blue Hour of the Day
Lorna Crozier
2007
Inventory
2007
Momentary Dark
2007
Point No Point
2005
Sometimes A Great Notion
David Donnell
2004
Kill-Site
Tim Lilburn
2004
Missing Children
Lynn Crosbie
2004
The Hunter
George Murray
2003
Apocrypha of Light
Lorna Crozier
2003
Pavilion
Stephanie Bolster
2003
Salvage
Michael Crummey
2002
A Strange Relief
Sonnet L’Abbe
2002
Against Paradise
Shawna Lemay
2002
The Cottage Builder's Letter
George Murray
2002
Travelling Mercies
Lorna Goodison
2001
Light Falls Through You
2001
Signal Fires
Christopher Dewdney
2001
The Border Surrounds Us
Karen Connelly
McFarland & Company, Inc.
United States
2015
Miklos Radnoti: The Complete Poetry In English
Gabor Barabas,
Miklos Radnoti
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Canada
2021
A Different Wolf
Deborah-Anne Tunney
2021
Check
2021
rushes from the river disappointment
Stephanie Roberts
2021
Side Effects May Include Strangers
Dominik Parisien
2020
Delivering the News
Thomas O’Grady
2020
Ganymede's Dog
John Emil Vincent
2020
Grotesque Tenderness
Daniel Cowper
2020
Look Here Look Away Look Again
Edward Carson
2020
Rail
Miranda Pearson
2020
The Danger Model
Madelaine Caritas Longman
2019
On High
Neil Surkan
2019
Short Histories of Light
Aidan Chafe
2019
The Night Chorus
Harold Hoefle
2019
Translating Air
Kath MacLean
2018
Dust Blown Side of the Journey
2018
The Rules of the Kingdom
Julie Paul
2017
The Unlit Path Behind the House
Wheaton
2017
Where We Live
John Reibetanz
2016
hook
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax
2016
Tablature
Bruce Whiteman
2016
Trio
2015
Outside, Inside
Michael Penny
2015
Some Dance
Ricardo Sternberg
2015
The Winter Count
Dilys Leman
2014
But For Now
Gordon Johnston
2014
Wavelengths of Your Song
Eleonore Schomaier
2013
A Lovely Gutting
Robin Durnford
2013
The Little Yellow House
Heather Simeney MacLeod
2012
Blindfold
John Mikhail Asfour
2012
Particles
Michael Penny
2011
Cast from Bells
Suzanne Hancock
2010
Mosaic Orpheus
Peter Dale Scott
2009
Palilalia
Jeffrey Donaldson
2008
Wet Apples, White Blood
Naomi Guttman
2006
Hurt Thyself
Andrew Steinmetz
2006
The Silver Palace Restaurant
Mark Abley
2004
Bamboo Church
Ricardo Sternberg
2004
Franklin's Passage
David Solway
2003
Before we had Words
S. P. Zitner
2003
the afterlife of trees
Brian Bartlett
2002
Her Festival Clothes
Mavis Jones
2001
CREDO
Carmine Starnino
2001
The Thin Smoke of the Heart
Tim Bowling
2001
What Really Matters
Thomas O’Grady