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.
Oberon Press
Canada
2013
A Shape of Breath
Judith Pond
2012
Games of Chance: A Gambler's Manual
Gerard Beirne
2009
The Sway of Otherwise
David Helwig
2008
Adagios: O, Clytaemnestra!
Judith Fitzgerald
2008
Letters to a Musical Friend
William Aide
2007
Electra's Benison
Judith Fitzgerald
2004
Adagios: Iphigenia's Song
Judith Fitzgerald
2002
American Standard
Joseph Sherman
2001
Burning Bush
Elizabeth Brewster
2001
Of Time & Toronto
Raymond Souster
2001
This Human Day
David Helwig
Octopus Books
United States
2016
The Father of the Arriw is the Thought
Christopher DeWeese
2015
Picasso's Tears
Wong May
Ohio University Press
United States
2019
Doubtful Harbor
Idris Anderson
2005
The Optimist
Joshua Mehigan
Omnidawn Publishing
United States
2021
Against Heidegger
L. M. Rivera
2021
Borderland Apocrypha
Anthony Cody
2021
Habitat Threshold
Craig Santos Perez
2021
La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living
Jennifer Hasegawa
2021
Quiet Orient Riot
Nathalie Khankan
2021
Raft of Flame
Desireé Alvarez
2021
Scatterpot
David Koehn
2021
Storage Unit for the Spirit House
Maw Shein Win
2021
this red metropolis what remains
Leia Penina Wilson
2021
Wyrd ] Bird
Claire Marie Stancek
2020
Civil Bound
Myung Mi Kim
2020
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route
T. J. Anderson III
2020
Harpo Before the Opus
Logan Fry
2020
Locus
Jason Bayani
2020
Running to Stand Still
Kimberly Reyes
2020
Silences
Martha Ronk
2020
The 44th of July
Jaswinder Bolina
2020
Water/tongue
Mai C. Doan
2019
As iZ
Tyrone Williams
2019
Day Counter
Sara Mumolo
2019
Fate News
Norma Cole
2019
Ghost Of
Diana Khoi Nguyen
2019
Light Wind Light Light
Bin Ramke
2019
Oil Spell
Claire Marie Stancek
2019
Place-Discipline
Jose Luis Moctezuma
2019
Real Life
Julie Carr
2019
The Drunkards
L. M. Rivera
2018
from unincorporated territory [lukao]
Craig Santos Perez
2018
Goddess of Democracy
Henry Wei Leung
2018
Of Annunciations
Ewa Chrusciel
2018
You Envelop Me
Laynie Browne
2017
Flesh of Leviathan
Erín Moure,
Chus Pato
2017
Ghost Nets
John Wilkinson
2017
Guera
Rebecca Gaydos
2017
House A
Jennifer S. Cheng
2017
Middle Time
Angela Hume
2017
Ocular Proof
Martha Ronk
2017
Our Animal
Meredith Stricker
2017
Squander
Elena Karina Byrne
2017
The Field
Robert Andrew Perez
2017
The orchard Green & Every Color
Zach Savich
2017
The Unfollowing
Lyn Hejinian
2017
Watchful
Molly Bendall
2016
A Timeshare
Margaret Ross
2016
Blood Oboe
Douglas Piccinnini
2016
Each Thing Unblurred is Broken
Andrea Baker
2016
Every Day But Tuesday
Barbara Freeman
2016
Laodicea
Eric Ekstrand
2016
Particulars of Place
Richard O. Moore
2016
Some Habits
C. Violet Eaton
2016
The Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz
Claudia Keelan
2016
u&i
Cassandra Smith
2015
From Unincorporated Territory [guma']
Craig Santos Perez
2015
Missing the Moon
Bin Ramke
2015
Peace
Gillian Conoley
2015
Rag
Julie Carr
2014
Companion Grasses
Brian Teare
2013
Book of a Thousand Eyes
Lyn Heijinian
2012
Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura
Kyoko Yoshida,
Forrest Gander,
Kiwao Nomura
2011
from unincorporated territory [saina]
Craig Santos Perez
2011
Present Tense
Anna Rabinowitz
2011
The Madeleine Poems
Paul Legault
2009
Saga/Circus
Lyn Hejinian
2009
Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
Maxine Chernoff,
Paul Hoover,
Friedrich Hölderlin
2005
Aversions
Devin Johnston
2005
In a Landscape of Having to Repeat
Martha Ronk
2005
The Real Subject
Keith Waldrop
Oneiros Books
United Kingdom
2015
Nidus Plexus: a Metric Montage
Mike Castro
2014
Crown of Thorns
Bethany W. Pope
Oolichan Books
Canada
2017
Belly Full of Rocks
Tyler B. Perry
2017
Ghost Town
Susan Telfer
2017
Tumour
Evelyn Lau
2015
Between Lives
Nilofar Shidmehr
2015
Ex-ville
Rhona McAdam
2015
Strange Labyrinth
Kat Cameron
2013
A Grain of Rice
Evelyn Lau
2013
Rainbow Stage-Manchuria
Steve Noyes
2013
The Wind River Variations
Brian Brett
2012
Gulf
Leslie Vryenhoek
2012
Sweet Devilry
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
2012
YVR
W. H. New
2011
Living Under Plastic
Evelyn Lau
2010
Desert Rose, Butterfly Storm
David Manicom
2010
Harbour
Miranda Pearson
2010
Morbidity & Ornament
Steve Noyes
2010
The Rope-Maker's Tale
W. H. New
2008
Along A Snake Fence Riding
W. H. New
2008
Father Tongue
Danielle Lagah
2008
Notes for a Rescue Narrative
J. Mark Smith
2008
The Incorrection
2007
Cartography
Rhona McAdam
2007
The Aviary
Miranda Pearson
2007
Time Out of Mind
Laurie Block
2007
Touching Ecuador
W. H. New
2006
Liminal Space
Leanne McIntosh
2006
Stumbling In the Bloom
John Pass
2006
The Thing About Dying
Mildred Tremblay
2006
Then Again: Something of a Life
Iain Higgins
2005
A Plot of Light
Susan McCaslin
2005
Leaving the Narrow Place
Dorothy Field
2005
The Spell of Memory
Ilya Tourtidis
2005
The Startled Heart
2005
Underwood Log
W. H. New
2004
Hannah and the Holy Fire
K. Louise Vincent
2004
Night Room
W. H. New
2004
The Burning Eaves
David Manicom
2004
The Sound The Sun Makes
Leanne McIntosh
2003
Love Songs For A Tender God
Hiro Boga
2003
Mars Is For Poems
Aaron Bushkowsky
2003
Riverbook & Ocean
W. H. New
2003
The Book of Contradictions
2003
The Elders' Palace
Margo Button
2002
Green Girl Dreams Mountains
Marilyn Dumont
2002
Old Woman Comes Ouf Of Her Cave
Mildred Tremblay
2002
Stone Rain
W. H. New
2001
Water Stair
John Pass
Oracle Books Limited
Nigeria
2004
Boundless Vessels
Promise O. Okekwe
2003
Scents of Dawn
Austyn Njoku
2002
Temples and Distances
Promise O. Okekwe
2002
The Labyrinth of Hope
Ismail Omamegbe
2002
The Wayfarer and Other Poems
Pius Adesanmi
Orison Books
United States
2021
Obscura
Frank Paino
2020
As One Fire Consumes Another
John Sibley Williams
2020
Some Unimaginable Animal
David Ebenbach
2019
Cerremonial
Carly Joy Miller
2018
Ghost Child of the Atlanta Bloom
Rebecca Aronson
2017
Two Worlds Exist
Yehoshua November