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.
Nightwood Editions
Canada
2021
Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation
Curtis LeBlanc
2021
Body Count
Kyla Jamieson
2021
it was never going to be okay
Jaye Simpson
2021
The Whole Singing Ocean
Jessica Moore
2020
Belated ris of the rainsick
Lucas Crawford
2020
Fresh Pack of Smokes
Cassandra Blanchard
2020
Near Miss
Laura Matwichuk
2020
Outside America
Sarah de Leeuw
2020
Renaissance Normcore
Adèle Barclay
2020
Visual Inspection
Matt Rader
2019
After the hatching Oven
David Alexander
2019
Bec and Call
Jenna Lyn Albert
2019
Little Wild
Curtis LeBlanc
2019
Our Familiar Hunger
Laisha Rosnau
2019
What Your Hands Have Done
Chris Bailey
2018
Bad Ideas
Michael V. Smith
2018
Cruise Missile Liberals
Spencer Gordon
2018
Landfall
Joe Denham
2018
Next Door to the Butcher Shop
Rodney DeCroo
2018
The Panic Room
Rebecca P?pucaru
2018
then/again
Michelle Elrick
2017
Digsite
Owain Nicholson
2017
How Festive the Ambulance
Kim Fu
2017
How to Be Eaten by a Lion
Michael Johnson
2017
If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You
Adèle Barclay
2017
The Duende of Tetherball
Tim Bowling
2017
The Red Files
Lisa Bird-Wilson
2017
Witness, I am
Gregory Scofield
2016
Floating is Everything
Sheryda Warrrener
2016
Hastings - Sunrise
Bren Simmers
2016
Mayor Snow
Nick Thran
2016
Regeneration Machine
Joe Denham
2016
Transmitter and Receiver
Raoul Fernandes
2016
undercurrent
Rita Wong
2015
Canoodlers
Andrea Bennett
2015
Cycling with the Dragon
Elaine Woo
2015
For Your Safety Please Hold On
Kayla Czaga
2015
Old Hat
Rob Winger
2015
Pluck
Laisha Rosnau
2015
The things I heard about you
Alex Leslie
2015
There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore
Adrienne Weiss
2014
children of air india
Renee Sarojini Saklikar
2014
Ink on Paper
Brad Cran
2014
Songs that Remind Us of Factories
Danny Jacobs
2014
The Hottest Summer in Recorded History
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2014
Timely Irreverence
Jay MillAr
2014
X: Poems & Anti-Poems
Shane Rhodes
2014
Zeppelin
Blaise Moritz
2013
A Brief History of the Short-lived
Chris Hutchinson
2013
Allegheny, BC
Rodney DeCroo
2013
Dirt of Ages
Gillian Wigmore
2013
Occupations
Chris Jennings
2013
Undark: An Oratorio
Sandy Pool
2013
Wedding in Fire Country
Darren Bifford
2012
Earworm
Nick Thran
2012
Embouchue
Kevin McNeilly
2012
Err
Shane Rhodes
2012
Kerosene
Jamella Hagen
2012
Louis: The Heretic Poems
Gregory Scofield
2012
Tenderman
Tim Bowling
2012
The Material Sublime
Carleton Wilson
2011
Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon
Ray Hsu
2011
Histories Haunt Us
Triny Finlay
2011
Other Poems
Jay MillAr
2011
Patternicity
Jim Johnstone
2011
The Chimney Stone
Rob Winger
2010
God of Missed Connections
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2010
Lousy Explorers
Laisha Rosnau
2010
Never More There
Stephen Rowe
2010
Red Nest
Gillian Jerome
2010
Windstorm
Joe Denham
2009
Letters I Didn't Write
John MacKenzie
2009
Little Hunger
Philip Kevin Paul
2009
Living Things
Matt Rader
2009
Repose
Adam Getty
2009
The Book Collector and Other Poems
Tim Bowling
2008
Birch Split Bark
Diane Guichon
2008
Forage
Rita Wong
2008
Muybridge's Horse
Rob Winger
2008
The Love Songs of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sharon McCartney
2008
The Rush to Here
George Murray
2007
Hitch
Matthew Holmes
2007
Home of Sudden Service
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2007
The Cold Panes of Surfaces
Chris Banks
2006
False Maps for Other Creatures
Jay MillAr
2006
Miraculous Hours
Matt Rader
2006
The Clicheist
Amanda Lamarche
2005
Anthropy
Ray Hsu
2005
Monks' Fruit
A. J. Levin
2005
Notes on Leaving
Laisha Rosnau
2005
Splitting Off
Triny Finlay
2005
Teethmarks
Sina Queyras
2004
Bonfires
Chris Banks
2004
Flux
Joe Denham
2004
Pouring Small Fire
Susan Manchester
2004
Reconciliation
Adam Getty
2004
Taking the Names Down from the Hill
Philip Kevin Paul
2004
The Witness Ghost
Tim Bowling
2004
The Words Wanting Out: Selected Poems
Barry Dempster
2003
Cruise Control
Ken Howe
2003
Head Full of Sun
Carla Funk
2003
Intimate Distances
Fiona Tinwei Lam
2003
The Good Life
Brad Cran
2002
Blue Himalayan Poppies
Jay Ruzesky
2002
Darkness and Silence
Tim Bowling
2002
Garments of the known
Norm Sacuta
2002
Slant
Andy Quan
2002
The Chick at the Back of the Church
Billie Livingston
2001
As Though The Gods Love Us
Poh Seng Goh
2001
Basmati Brown
Phinder Dulai
Nimbus Publishing
Canada
2021
I place you into the fire
Rebecca Thomas
2020
Portia White: A Portrait in Words
George Elliott Clarke
2020
You Won't Always Be This Sad - A Book of Moments
Sheree Fitch
Nine Arches Press
United Kingdom
2021
Letters Home
Jennifer Wong
2021
Little Kings
Peter Kahn
2021
Magnolia
Nina Mingya Powles
2021
Maskwork
Gregory Leadbetter
2021
What Girls Do in the Dark
Rosie Garland
2019
Cyclone
Robert Peake
2019
Near Future
Suzannah Evans
2019
Passport
Richie McCaffery
2019
The Healing Next Time
Roy McFarlane
2017
The Fetch
Gregory Leadbetter
Nirala Publications
India
2017
A Blizzard in My Bones: New York Poems
Yuyutsu Sharma
2017
Out from Calaboose
Karen Corinne Herceg
2017
Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems
Yuyutsu Sharma
2009
After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
David Ray
Noemi Press
United States
2021
Defacing the Monument
Susan Briante
2020
Careen
Grace Shuyi Liew
2017
The Art of Work
Jen Fitzgerald
2014
Striven, The Bright Treatise
Jeffrey Pethybridge
North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc.
United States
2002
Quilt Pieces
Mary Willette Hughes
2002
Ride That Full Tilt Boogie
Linda Back McKay
2002
The Turning of Wheels
Larry Schug
Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England
2007
A Form of Optimism
Roy Jacobstein
Northwestern University Press
United States
2014
Autogeography
Reginald Harris
2014
Birthplace with Buried Stones
Meena Alexander
2014
Grains of the Voice
Christina Pugh
2014
Halting Steps
Claribel Alegria,
Claribel Alegria
2014
Like a Misunderstood Salvation & Other Poems
Annette Smith,
Dominic Thomas,
Aime Cesaire
2014
Pitch Dark Anarchy
Randall Horton
2014
Selected Poems
James McGavran,
Vladimir Mayakovsky
2014
September
Rachel Jamison Webster
2013
Horse in the Dark
Vievee Francis
2013
Poems
David Georgi,
Francois Villon
2011
Honeycomb
Carol Frost
2011
Stateside
Jehanne Dubrow
2011
The Gate of Horn
L. S. Asekoff
2011
Through the Stonecutter's Window
Indigo Moor
2010
History of Hurricanes
Teresa Cader
2009
Restoration
Christina Pugh
2009
Stranger's Notebook
Nomi Stone
2009
The Note She Left
Susan Hahn
2006
A Room in California
Laurence Goldstein
2006
Change of Address
David R. Slavitt
2006
Self/Pity
Susan Hahn
2006
To Be in This Number
Alane Rollings
2005
A Voice: Selected Poems
Andrew Wachtel,
Anzhelina Polonskaya
2004
The Promised Folly
Judith Hall
2001
City of Ash (Translation)
Eugenijus Alisanka
Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books
United States
2008
Three Trios (J II)
Judith Hall
2002
Bone & Juice
Adrian C. Louis
2002
Star Apocrypha
Christopher Buckley
2001
Love and Scorn
Carol Frost
2001
You Are Here
Paul Breslin
Novalis Publishing
Canada
2021
Reupholstered Psalms: Ancient Songs Sung Anew
Greg Kennedy SJ
2010
Names of Blessing
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
NRM Muhafiz & Dr Alam
2001
Lone Walks
Dr. M. Alam Azaad
Nsemia Inc. Publishers
Canada
2012
Love Poems of Arif Khudairi
Arif Khudairi
2012
Riddles of My Mother
Amos Tabalia
2012
Smiles in Pathos and Other Poems
Khainga O’Okwemba
2010
The Gong
Christopher Okemwa
NYQ Books
United States
2020
Enough
Kris Bigalk
2013
Cadillac Men
Rebecca Schumejda
2013
My Tranquil War and Other Poems
Anis Shivani
Oberlin College Press
United States
2010
He and I
Marilyn Hacker,
Emmanuel Moses
2010
Tryst
Angie Estes
2002
Here There Was Once A Country
Marilyn Hacker,
Venus Khoury-Ghata