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.
Madhu Nenvani
India
2004
Surface of the Sea
Nisha Jeswani (Tr.),
Pahlaj Jeswani (Tr.),
Mahesh Nenvani
Magabala Books
Australia
2025
if this is the end
Bebe Oliver
2025
Refugia
Elfie Shiosaki
2017
Lemons in the ChickenWire
Alison Whittaker
Main Street Rag Publishing Company
United States
2022
When Light Waits For Us
Hilda Downer
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
Makina Books
England
2022
Glass
Emily Cooper
2022
Hyperlove
Naomi Morris
2022
The Yak Dilemma
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books
Malaysia
2019
Visiting the Land of Buds by Kamala
Mohamed Ashraq Mohamed Amin (Tr.),
Kamala
Manor House Publishing
Canada
2025
The Poetic Voice
Ian Prattis
2022
The Open Gate
R. J. Keeler
2021
Snowman
R. J. Keeler
2012
Briar Rose
Alyxandra Harvey
2012
Caught in Time
Jane Eamon
Mansfield Press
Canada
2023
Ghost Walk
Anton Pooles
🇨🇦
2023
Immune to the Sacred
Stephen Brockwell
2023
Pronounced/Workable
Candace de Taeye
2023
The Sleep Orchard - A Response to Arshile Gorky
Amy Dennis
🇨🇦
2022
A Nihilist Walks into a Bar
Brianna Ferguson
2022
Blue Suitcase - Documentary Poetics
Jim Nason
2022
Constrictor
Nathaniel G. Moore
2022
Love and other failed religions
Dane Swan
2022
Mouthful of Bees
Shannon Quinn
2022
Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah
Michael Trussler
2022
Recovery Community
Conor McDonnell
2022
This is about Angels, Women, and Men
Chantel Lavoie
2022
Uncharted
Sabyasachi Nag
2022
Your Turn
Carole Glasser Langille
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 (Tr.),
Michelle Winters (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Aaron Crippen (Tr.),
Jennifer Tseng
2011
Corinthian Copper
J. Kates (Tr.),
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