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.
Paraclete Press
United States
2017
The Yearning Life
The Rev. Dr. Regina L. Walton
2007
A Pentecost of Finches
Robert Siegel
Pardalote Press
Australia
2008
Handfeeding the Crocodile
Gina Mercer
2005
Under the one granite roof: poems for Walt Whitman
Karen Knight
Paula Brown Publishing
United Kingdom
2007
A Real Man
David Savoury
2007
The Mansion Gardens
Alan Morrison
Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press
United Kingdom
2017
Every Little Sound
Ruby Robinson
2017
Slant Light
Sarah Westcott
Pedlar Press
Canada
2021
Cult Life
Kyeren Regehr
2021
Niagara & Government
2021
Were There Gazelle
Laura K. McRae
2020
Local Haunts
David White
2020
These Wings
Kim Fahner
2020
Vanishing Acts
Moira MacDougall
2019
Lamb
Michael Kenyon
2019
Oderin
Agnes Walsh
2018
Faunics
Jack Davis
2018
Late Style
Barry Dempster
2018
The More
Ronna Bloom
2018
THIS REAL
Concetta Principe
2017
Hiroshima: A Love [word struck out] War Story
Concetta Principe
2017
poemw
Anne Fleming
2017
The Holy Nothing
Jessica Hiemstra
2016
Barren The Fury
Brenda Leifso
2016
Now Comes the Lightning
Sarah Bernstein
2016
The Poison Colour
Maureen Hynes
2015
He'll
Nathan Dueck
2015
Skein of Days
Sonja Greckol
2015
Subduction Zone
Emily McGiffin
2014
Air-Proof Green
Maleea Acker
2014
Cottonopolis
Rachel Lebowitz
2014
Light
Souvankham Thammavongsa
2013
Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems
Carole Langille
2013
Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement
Ronna Bloom
2013
Left for Right
Glen Downie
2013
Slow Curve Out
Maureen Scott Harris
2012
Hydro Logos
Warren Heiti
2012
Marrow, Willow
Maureen Hynes
2012
Post-Apothecary
2012
Straight Razor Days
Joel Thomas Hynes
2012
There Devil, Eat That
JonArno Lawson
2012
Wore Down Trust
Michael Blouin
2011
Active Pass
2011
Couture
Dani Couture
2011
The Little Seamstress
2010
Ivan's Birches
Barry Dempster
2010
Permiso
Ronna Bloom
2010
The Others Raisd In Me
Gregory Betts
2009
Salt Physic
Jacqueline Larson
2009
Watermarks
Joanne Page
2008
Found
Souvankham Thammavongsa
2008
Nerve Language
Brian Henderson
2007
The Book of Skeletons
Rachel Vigier
2006
Stormy Weather: Foursomes
Stan Dragland
2005
Drowning Lessons
Maureen Scott Harris
2005
Public Works
Ronna Bloom
2004
Persuasion for a Mathematician
Joanne Page
2004
Small Arguments
Souvankham Thammavongsa
2003
Killing Things
John Degen
2003
On Every Stone
Rachel Vigier
2003
Simple Master
Alice Burdick
2001
Animal Life in Bucharest
John Degen
2001
Personal Effects
Ronna Bloom
Peepal Tree Press
United Kingdom
2021
Modern, Age, & C
Raymond Ramcharitar
2021
Pierrot
John Robert Lee
2021
Road Trip
Marvin Thompson
2021
The Errors of the Rendering
Funso Aiyejina
2021
The Geez
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
2020
A Portable Paradise
Roger Robinson
2020
Honeyfish
Lauren K. Alleyne
2020
Unknown Soldier
Seni Seneviratne
2018
Everyone Knows I Am A Haunting
Shivanee Ramlochan
2018
Kingdom of Gravity
Nick Makoha
2016
Leaving Atlantis
Esther Phillips
2016
Wife
Tiphanie Yanique
2014
Ad-liberation
Sai Murray
2014
Here
Raymond Ramcharitar
2014
Irki
Kadija Sesay
2014
Pepper Seed
Malika Booker
2014
The Butterfly Hotel
Roger Robinson
2014
Utter
Vahni Capildeo
2013
Fault Lines
Kendel Hippolyte
2013
South Eastern Stages
Anthony Kellman
2012
The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman
Loretta Collins Klobah
2012
Wheels
Kwame Dawes
2011
Back of Mount Peace
Kwame Dawes
2011
Dub Wise
Geoffrey Philp
2011
Far District
2011
Gully
Roger Bonair Agard
2011
Intersections
Frances-Marie Coke
2011
Running the Dusk
Christian Campbell
2011
Scratches on the Air
Brian Chan
2011
The Makings of You
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
2010
The Journey to Le Repentir
Mark McWatt
2009
I Name Me Name
Opal Palmer Adisa
2009
Leaving Traces
Velma Pollard
2009
Limestone
Anthony Kellman
2009
Ship Shape
Dorothea Smartt
2009
The Almond Leaf
Earl McKenzie
2009
The Gift of Screws
Brian Chan
2007
Fauna
Jacqueline Bishop
Pelekinesis
United States
2020
Unfortunately, Thanks for Everything
T. Anders Carson
2019
Ariadne/Dark Dark Shine
Caroline Beasley-Baker
2019
The Difference Between
Grant Hier
2019
Wayfarers
Katrinka Moore
Pendas Productions
Canada
2005
Shaking Hands with the Night
Katerina Fretwell
2005
The Harvestman
Charles Mountford
Penguin Books UK
United Kingdom
2023
Longlisted
2020
If All the World and Love Were Young
Stephen Sexton
2006
David's Copy
David Meltzer
2006
Genius Loci
Alison Hawthorne Deming
2006
Pyx
Corinne Lee
2006
Whispering Gallery
William Logan
Penguin Books USA
United States
2024
Shortlisted
2023
Longlisted
2023
Shortlisted
2002
Winner
2018
BOX
Robert Wrigley
2018
In Darwin's Room
Debora Greger
2018
Madness
Sam Sax
2018
Map to the Stars
Adrian Matejka
2018
Quickening Fields
Pattiann Rogers
2018
Rift of Light
William Logan
2014
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Wrigley
2014
Gossamurmur
Anne Waldman
2014
Holy Heathen Rhapsody
Pattiann Rogers
2014
The Big Smoke
Adrian Matejka
2014
Under the Sign
2013
Alien vs. Predator
Michael Robbins
2013
By Herself
Debora Greger
2013
Madame X
William Logan
2013
My Favorite Warlord
Eugene Gloria
2013
The Aothecary's Heir
Julianne Buchsbaum
2013
The Middle Ages
Roger Fanning
2010
Dearest Creature
Amy Gerstler
2010
Manatee/Humanity
Anne Waldman
2010
Mixology
Adrian Matejka
2010
Or To Begin Again
2010
Rope
Alison Hawthorne Deming
2010
The History of Forgetting
Lawrence Raab
2009
Installations
Joe Bonomo
2009
May Day
Phillis Levin
2009
Men, Women, and Ghosts
Debora Greger
2009
Strange Flesh
William Logan
2009
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in the Ukraine
Mark Yakich
2009
The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
Frances Richey
2009
Wayfare
Pattiann Rogers
2008
Backwards Days
Stuart Dischell
2008
Circadian
Joanna Klink
2008
In The Pines
2008
Nervous Systems
William Stobb
2008
Unknown Friends
Carl Dennis
2007
An almost Pure Empty Walking
Tryfon Tolides
2007
Earthly Meditations
Robert Wrigley
2007
Hoodlum Birds
Eugene Gloria
2007
One Hidden Stuff
Barbara Ras
2007
Paradiso Diaspora
John Yau
2007
Wind in a Box
Terrance Hayes
2005
Generations
Pattiann Rogers
2005
Ghost Gin
Amy Gerstler
2005
Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross
Mark Yakich
2005
Western Art
Debra Greger
2003
As Ever
Joanne Kyger
2003
Borrowed Love Poems
John Yau
2003
Hip Logic
Terrance Hayes
2003
Homesick
Roger Fanning
2003
Porcupine's Kiss
Stephen Dobyns
2003
V
Stephanie Strickland
2002
Asunder
Susan Wood
2002
If in Time
Penguin Random House
United States
2021
The Girl and the Goddess
Nikita Gill
2020
Dolefully, A Rampart Stands
Paige Ackerson-Kiely
2020
Fear of Description
Daniel Poppick
2020
Forage
Rose McLarney
2020
Great Goddesses
Nikita Gill
2020
Sightseer in this Killing City
Eugene Gloria
2020
Spiritual Exercises
Mark Yakich
2020
The Crazy Bunch
Willie Perdomo
2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
2019
Blue Rose
Carol Muske-Dukes
2019
Museum of the Americas
J. Michael Martinez
2019
Night School
Carl Dennis
2017
A Woman of Property
Robyn Schiff
2017
Certain Magical Acts
2017
Mr. Memory & Other Poems
Phillis Lee
2017
Plenty
Corinne Lee
2017
Stairway to Heaven
Alison Hawthorne Deming
2017
The Sobbing School
2017
Viability
Sarah Vap
2016
Dark Energy
Robert Morgan
2016
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy
Joanna Klink
2016
How to be Drawn
Terrance Hayes
2016
It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
Lia Purpura
2016
Scattered at Sea
Amy Gerstler
2015
Another Reason
Carl Dennis
2015
Instant Winner
Carrie Fountain
2015
Its Day Being Gone
Rose McLarney
2015
Jason and the Argonauts
Aaron Poochigian,
Apollonius of Rhodes
2015
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Patricia Lockwood
2015
Roget's Illusion
Linda Bierds
2015
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
Willie Perdomo
2015
The Second Sex
Michael Robbins