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.
Negative Capability Press
United States
2017
So Late to the Party
Kate Angus
2015
Two Faint Lines in the Violet
Lissa Kiernan
NeoPoiesis Press LLC
United States
2017
Orpheus In Our World: New Poems on Timeless Forces
Patricia Keeney
New American Press
United States
2016
Levitation for Agnostics
Arne Weingart
2013
The Last Sacred Place in North America
Stephen Haven
New Directions Publishing
United States
2024
Winner
2019
Winner
2018
Winner
2006
Shortlisted
2006
Shortlisted
2021
A Treatise on Stars
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2021
Concordance
2021
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
2021
Salient
Elizabeth T. Gray
2021
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Margaret Jull Costa,
Patricio Ferrari,
Alberto Caeiro
2021
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
David Hinton,
Tu Fu
2020
In Her Feminine Sign
2020
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Kareem James Abu-Zeid,
Ivan Eubanks,
Adonis
2020
What's in a Name
Margaret Jull Costa,
Ana Luisa Amaral
2019
Be With
Forrest Gander
2019
The Galloping Hour
Forrest Gander,
Patricio Ferrari,
Alejandra Pizarnik
2019
The Shutters
Emma Ramadan,
Ahmed Bouanani
2018
Gondwana
Nathaniel Tarn
2018
Magnetic Point
Clare Cavanagh,
Ryszard Krynicki
2017
The Hideous Hidden
2017
The Laughter of the Sphinx
2017
Works & Days
Bernadette Mayer
2016
Blue Fasa
Nathaniel Mackey
2016
Dirty Poem
Leland Guyar,
Ferreira Gullar
2015
Derangements of My Contemporaries
Chloe Garcia Roberts,
Li Shang-yin
2015
Fullblood Arabian
C. J. Collins,
Osama Alomar
2015
Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Peter France,
Osip Mandelstam
2015
Poems to Read on a Streetcar
Heather Cleary,
Oliverio Girondo
2015
The Iceland
Hiroaki Sato,
Sakutaro Hagiwara
2015
The Invention of Influence
Peter Cole
2015
The Iraqi Nights
Kareem James Abu-Zeid,
Dunya Mikhail
2012
Core Samples from the World
Forrest Gander
2011
Nox
2010
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
2010
The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
Will Alexander
2008
Descartes' Loneliness
Allen Grossman
2008
DS(2)
2008
Field-Russia
Peter France,
Gennady Aygi
2008
Lowcountry
John Allman
2008
Poetry As Insurgent Art
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2008
Souls of the Labadie Tract
2008
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande
Jimmy Santiago Baca
2007
it
Susanna Nied,
Inger Christensen
2007
Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey
2007
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
Robin Fulton,
Tomas Tranströmer
2007
The Selected Poems of Wang Wei
David Hinton,
Wang Wei
2006
Eye Against Eye
Forrest Gander
2006
Scarlet Tanager
Bernadette Mayer
2005
Americus Book I
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2005
Antipoems: How to look better and feel great
Liz Werner,
Nicanor Parra
2005
Butterfly Valley
Susanna Nied,
Inger Christensen
2005
Incarnate: Story Material
Thalia Field
2005
Loew's Triboro
John Allman
2005
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande
Jimmy Santiago Baca
2004
Child and Rose
Peter France,
Gennady Aygi
2004
Forbidden Words
Alexis Levitin,
Eugenio de Andrade
2004
J'Accuse
Peter Cole,
Aharon Shabtai
2002
How to do things with Tears
Allen Grossman
2002
How to Paint Sunlight
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2002
The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun
David Hinton,
Hsieh Ling-yun
2002
Torn Awake
Forrest Gander
New Issues Poetry & Prose
United States
2021
2nd Chance
Daniel Becker
2021
BEIT
Eryn Green
2021
Insofar
Sarah Gridley
2021
Swale
Allison Hutchcraft
2016
Kingdom
Myronn Hardy
2016
Little Spells
Jennifer K. Sweeney
2016
My Multiverse
Kathleen Halme
2013
A Penance
C. J. Evans
2013
the body/of space/in the shape of the human
Andrew Allport
2013
The Frame Called Ruin
Hadara Bar-Nadav
2013
The Radio Tree
Corey Marks
2013
The Right Place to Jump
Peter Covino
2013
Two-Headed Nightingale
Shara Lessley
2011
Sky = Empty
Judy Halebsky
2010
Dirt Angels
Donald Platt
2010
Missing Her
Claudia Keelan
2009
Tall If
Mark Irwin
2008
A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow
Noah Eli Gordon
2008
Undid in the Land of Undone
Lee Upton
2007
The Mending Worm
Joan Houlihan
2007
The Prayers of Others
David Keplinger
2006
The Clearing
David Keplinger
2005
Abrupt Rural
David Dodd Lee
2004
Graft
Brian Henry
2004
One Girl Babylon
Ruth Ellen Kocher
2004
Ovid at Fifteen
Christopher Bursk
2001
Breath
Robert VanderMolen
2001
Perfect Disappearance
Martha Rhodes
2001
Tactile Values
Mark Scott
New Rivers Press
United States
2016
Small Buried Things
Debra Marquart
2015
Invasives
Brandon Krieg
2014
Reports
Kathryn Levy
2012
The Animals Beyond Us
Michael Hettich
2009
Hollow Out
Kelsea Habecker
New Star Books
Canada
2021
Hungry Slingshots
Louis Cabri
2020
I Am A City Still But Soon I Shan't Be
Roger Farr
2019
9 x 11 and other poems like Bird, Nine, x, and 11
Michael Turner
2018
The Receiver
Sharon Thesen
2017
A perimeter
Rob McLennan
2016
The World, I Guess
2015
Loitersack
2015
Posh Lust
Louis Cabri
2014
After Desire
George Stanley
2014
After Desire
George Stanley
2014
Parkway
Peter Culley
2013
IKMQ
Roger Farr
2012
Buffet World
2012
Mannequin Rising
Roy Miki
2010
In the Millennium
Barry McKinnon
2009
Subway Under Byzantium
Maxine Gadd
2009
The Age of Briggs & Stratton
Peter Culley
2009
Vancouver:A Poem
George Stanley
2008
Aethel
2007
Backup to Babylon
Maxine Gadd
2007
There
Roy Miki
2006
Anarchive
Steve Collis
2006
Ligatures
2006
Silt
Jordan Scott
2004
Exercises in Lip Pointing
Marie Annharte Baker
2004
Hammertown
Peter Culley
2002
The Weather
Lisa Robertson
2001
At Andy?s
George Stanley
New Wave Publications
United States
2008
Metaphor on a Jazz Slope: A Postmodernist Ontology
Ron Raye
2007
Just Off Colloden Road
Ron Raye
New York Quarterly Foundation
United States
2021
Daddy
Michael Montlack
2021
The Book of Dirt
Nicole Santalucia
2017
What Blooms in Winter
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
New York Review Books
United States
2018
Our Life Grows
Alissa Valles,
Ryszard Krynicki
2018
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
Eugene Ostashevsky
2017
Voronezh Notebooks
Andrew Davis,
Osip Mandelstam
2016
Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
Ron Padgett,
Guillaume Apollinaire
2014
An Invitation for Me to Think
Eugene Ostashevsky,
Matvei Yankelevich,
Eugene Ostashevsky
2012
Songs of Kabir
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,
Kabir
New York Review Books Poets
United States
2021
Daybreak: New & Selected Poems
Marilyn Hacker,
Claire Malroux
2021
Medusa Beach: And Other Poems
Melissa Monroe
2021
Richard Howard Loves Henry James and Other American Writers
Richard Howard
2021
The Magnetic Fields
Charlotte Mandell,
Andre Breton,
Philippe Soupault
2019
A Certain Plume
Richard Sieburth,
Henri Michaux
2019
Li Shangyin
Chloe Garcia Roberts,
Li Shangyin
2016
Silvina Ocampo
Jason Weiss,
Silvina Ocampo
NeWest Press
Canada
2021
Lullabies in the Real World
Meredith Quartermain
2021
The Response of Weeds
Bertrand Bickersteth
2020
let us not think of them as barbarians
Peter Midgley
2019
Paper Caskets
Emilia Danielewska
2019
Tar Swan
David Martin
2019
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Kayla Geitzler
2017
Documentaries
Walter Hildebrandt
2016
Hillsdale Book
Gerald Hill
2014
Seldom Seen Road
Jenna Butler
2013
Geographies of a Lover
Sarah de Leeuw
2013
Restless White Fields
Barbara Langhorst
2009
Nightmarker
Meredith Quartermain
2008
fluttertongue 4:adagio for the pressured surround
Steven Ross Smith
2008
Paper Trail
Arleen Paré
2008
The Bindery
Shane Rhodes
2006
Blue Feast
Shawna Lemay
2006
This Way the Road
Nina Berkhout
2006
Vancouver Walking
Meredith Quartermain
2006
Were the Bees
Andy Weaver
2004
Letters from Deadman's Cay
Nina Berkhout
2004
The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001
Stephen Scobie
2001
Fragmenting Body etc.
Douglas Barbour
2001
The Wireless Room
Shane Rhodes
Nightboat Books
United States
2021
Emporium
Aditi Machado
2021
Like Bismuth When I Enter
Carlos Lara
2021
Repetition Nineteen
Monica de la Torre
2021
Shifting the Silence
2021
The Blue Absolute
Aaron Shurin
2021
Toxicon and Arachne
Joyelle McSweeney
2020
Action in the Orchards
Fred Schmalz
2020
Alisoun Sings
Caroline Bergvall
2020
Doomstead Days
Brian Teare
2020
Hull
Xandria Phillips
2020
Invasiv species
Marwa Helal
2020
Little Million Doors
Chad Sweeney
2020
Personal Volcano
Laura Moriarty
2020
Pet Sounds
Stephanie Young
2020
Slingshot
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
2020
Speech
Jill Magi
2020
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
Jayy Dodd
2020
The Next Loves
Lindsay Turner,
Stéphane Bouquet
2020
What I Knew
Eleni Sikelianos
2019
A Year From Today
Stacy Szymaszek
2019
Camp Marmalade
Wayne Koestenbaum
2019
Crosslight for Youngbird
Asiya Wadud
2019
Don't Let Them See Me Like This
Jasmine Gibson
2019
ESL or You Weren't Here
Aldrin Valdez
2019
Livingry
Gracie Leavitt
2019
Some Animal
Ely Shipley
2019
Suelo tide Cement
Christina Vega-Westhoff
2019
Surge
2019
Vigilance is No Orchard
Hazel White
2018
a body in spite
Nathanael,
Alain Jugnon
2018
Ears
Jared Stanley
2018
Field Theories
Samiya Bashir
2018
I Love it Though
Alli Warren
2018
No Dictionary of a Living Tongue
Duriel E. Harris
2018
On Walking On
2018
Paraguayan Sea
Erín Moure,
Wilson Bueno
2018
Rock|Salt|Stone
Rosamond S. King
2018
Silk Poems
Jen Bervin
2018
Some Beheadings
Aditi Machado
2017
Dianoia
Michael Heller
2017
Fleshgraphs
Brynne Rebele-Henry
2017
Hell Figures
E. Tracy Grinnell
2017
Hotel abc
Susan Gevirtz
2017
Remembering Animals
Brenda Iijima
2017
The Consequences of My Body
Maged Zaher
2017
The Old Philosopher
Vi Khi Nao
2017
Threnody
Juliet Patterson
2016
Court of the Dragon
Paolo Javier
2016
hart island
Stacy Szymaszek
2016
Land Sparing
Gabriella Klein
2016
Landscapes on a Train
2016
Letterrs
Orlando White
2016
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Dawn Lundy Martin
2016
Swimming Home
Vincent Katz
2016
The Islands
John Sakkis
2016
The Pink Trance Notebooks
Wayne Koestenabaum
2015
A Several World
Brian Blanchfield
2015
DRIFT
Caroline Bergvall
2015
Labor
Jill Magi
2015
Mature Themes
Andrew Durbin
2015
Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star
Gracie Leavitt
2015
The Tribute Horse
Brandon Som
2015
Who That Divines
Laura Moriarty
2013
Inmost
Jessica Fisher
2013
Music for Porn
Rob Halpern
2013
Partially Kept
Martha Ronk
2013
Sea and Fog
2013
Sisyphus, Outdone: Theatres of the Catastrophal
Nathanael
2007
The Truant Lover
Juliet Patterson