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.
Apogee Press
United States
2023
psalmbook
Laura Walker
2022
wifthing
Pattie McCarthy
2021
Vault
Alice Jones
2013
follow-haswed
Laura Walker
2013
mary bones
Pattie McCarthy
2013
Plunge
Alice Jones
2007
Edge and Fold
Paul Hoover
2005
Gorgeous Mourning
Alice Jones
2005
Verso
Pattie McCarthy
Apprentice House
USA
2023
Children of Someone Else's Longing
Sandra Rokoff-Liznt
2023
Woman by the Door
Kashiana Singh
Aquarius Press/Willow Books
United States
2018
Fabric
Lucinda Roy
2016
Imaginary Animal
Rachelle Escamilla
2016
The Pink Box
Yesenia Montilla
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Canada
2024
World's End
Rob McLennan
2023
lisan al 'asfour
Natalie Hanna
🇨🇦
Arc Publications
United Kingdom
2023
No Cherry Time
Jennie Feldman
2023
Time Begins to Hurt
Pippa Little
2022
Hope is Lonely
Brother Anthony of Taize (Tr.),
Kim Seung-Hee
2022
Invisible
Piotr Florczyk (Tr.),
Jacek Gutorow
2022
Trust
Clare Pollard (Tr.),
Anna T. Szabo (Tr.),
Anna T. Szabo
2021
Bigger than the Facts
Antoinette Fawcett (Tr.),
Jan Baeke
2021
Brimstone: A Book of Villanelles
John Kinsella
2021
Eternal Traffic
James Sutherland-Smith (Tr.),
Mila Haugová
2021
On the Nature of the Universe
Emma Gee (Tr.),
Titus Lucretius Carus
2021
Sometimes a Single Leaf
Iain Galbraith (Tr.),
Esther Dischereit
2021
The Atlas of Lost Beliefs
Ranjit Hoskote
2020
A Friable Earth
Jackie Wills
2020
Maps of Desire
Anna Crowe (Tr.),
Manuel Forcano
2020
Not On The Side of The Gods
Anna Crowe
2020
The Caprices
James Byrne
2020
To The Outermost Stars
Agnes Scott Langeland (Tr.),
Stein Mehren
2019
As Slow As Possible
Kit Fan
2019
Lives of the Dead
Atar Hadari (Tr.),
Hanoch Levin
2019
The Illegal Age
Ellen Hinsey
2019
The True Height of the Ear
Iain Galbraith
2017
Acres of Light
Katherine Gallagher
2017
Lunarium
Anna Crowe (Tr.),
Josep Lluis Aguilo
2017
Pages from the Biography of an Exile
Stephen Watts (Tr.),
Marga Burgui-Artajo (Tr.),
Adnan Al-Sayegh
2017
Reading the Flowers
Linda France
2017
Subterranea
Joss Smith
2017
The Herring Lass
Michelle Cahill
2017
Until the Lions
Karthika Nair
2017
Window-Cleaner sees Paintings
David Colmer (Tr.),
Menno Wigman
2016
(O)
Sophie Mayer
2016
Barefoot Souls
Theo Dorgan (Tr.),
Maram al-Masri
2016
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal
Jan Owen (Tr.),
Charles Baudelaire
2016
Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees
Iain Galbraith (Tr.),
Jan Wagner
2016
The End of the Trial of Man
Paul Stubbs
2015
Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw
Ian Crockatt (Tr.),
Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson
2015
Peatlands
Anna Crowe (Tr.),
Pedro Serrano
2015
The Spanish-Italian Border
Roisin Tierney
2014
Dinner with Fish and Mirrors
Zorica Petrovic (Tr.),
James Sutherland-Smith (Tr.),
Ivana Milankov
2014
Half-Life
Michael Hulse
2014
In a Time of Burning
Lakshmi Holmstrom (Tr.),
Cheran
2014
Talking Vrouz
2014
Thaw
Katherine Hedeen (Tr.),
Victor Rodriguez Núñez
2014
Woman's Head as Jug
Jackie Wills
2013
As I Said
G. S. Smith (Tr.),
Lev Loseff
2013
Days Full of Caves & Tigers
Simon Knight (Tr.),
Fabio Pusterla
2013
How Abraham Abandoned Me
Ruth Christie (Tr.),
Bejan Matur
2013
Seizing: Places
Patrick McGuinness (Tr.),
Helene Dorion
2013
Silence River
Stefan Tobler (Tr.),
Antonio Moura
2012
A Year in the Bull-Box
Glyn Hughes
2012
Ai! Ai! Pianissimo
Astrid Alben
2012
Claiming Kindred
D. M. Black
2012
The Ballads of Kukutis
Laima Vince (Tr.),
Marcelijus Martinaitis
2011
A Cure for Woodness
Michael Haslam
2011
The Scent of Your Shadow
Ilmar Lehtpere (Tr.),
Kristiina Ehin
2011
Whispers & Breath of the Meadows
Armine Tamrazian (Tr.),
Razmik Davoyan
2010
Blood/Sugar
James Byrne
2010
The Ark Builders
Mary O’Donnell
2010
The Secret History
Michael Hulse
2009
A Ghost in my House
Lorna Thorpe
2009
Comus: A Dialogic Mask
John Kinsella
2009
Guests of Eternity
Richard McKane (Tr.),
Larissa Miller
2009
Midnight & Other Poems
Radwa Ashour (Tr.),
Mourid Barghouti
2009
Still Life With Loops
Philip Jenkins (Tr.),
Eli Tolaretxipi
2009
The Icon Maker
Paul Stubbs
2009
The Night Fountain
Marco Sonzogni (Tr.),
Gerald Dawe (Tr.),
Salvatore Quasimodo
2009
Wheel
Michael O’Neill
2008
Commandments
Jackie Wills
2008
I Dreamed in the Cities at Night
Donald Gardner (Tr.),
Remco Campert
2008
State of Emergency
Tom Cheesman (Tr.),
John Goodby (Tr.),
Soleiman Adel Guemar
2007
America or Glow (A Poem)
John Kinsella
2007
Circus-Apprentice
Katherine Gallagher
2007
Hothouse
Tracy Ryan
2007
Radio Nostalgia
Chris Emery
2007
Row
Joshua Beckman (Tr.),
Tomaz Salamun
2007
Strategies for Confronting Fear
Anthony Lawrence
2007
Twenty Four Preludes and Fuges on Dmitri Shostakovich
Joanna Boulter
2007
We of Zipangu
James Kirkup (Tr.),
Mutsuo Takahashi
2007
Wolf One-Eye
Mara Rozitis (Tr.),
Juris Kronbergs
2006
A Sinner Saved by Grace
Michael Haslam
2006
America (A Poem)
John Kinsella
2006
Canal
Saskia Hamilton
2006
Far from Sodom
Daniel Weissbort (Tr.),
Inna Lisnianskaya
2006
Musica Transalpina
Michelene Wandor
2006
Syllable of Stone
Patrick Lane
2006
The Path to the Sea
Thomas A. Clark
2002
A Constant Level of Illuminations
Donald Atkinson
2002
Inexorable Weather
Louis Armand
2002
Lithium
Emma-Jane Arkady
2002
recycling
2002
The Music Laid Her Songs in Language
Michael Haslam
2002
Where are you, Susie Petschek?
Michael Hulse (Tr.),
Cevat Capan
2001
astro.naut
Brian Henry
2001
The Right Thing
C. K. Stead
2001
Tigers on the Silk Road
Katherine Gallagher
Archipelago Books
United States
2024
Longlisted
2017
Shortlisted
2023
distant transit
Tess Lewis (Tr.),
Maja Haderlap
2022
Acrobat
Nandana Dev Sen (Tr.),
Nandana Dev Sen
2021
Allegria
Geoffrey Brock (Tr.),
Giuseppe Ungaretti
2017
Vulture in a Cage
Raymond P. Scheindlin (Tr.),
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
2014
Even Now
David Colmer (Tr.),
Hugo Claus
2014
Landscape with Yellow Birds
Thomas Christensen (Tr.),
Jose Angel Valente
2008
new poems
Bill Johnston (Tr.),
Tadeusz Rózewicz
Arctos Press
United States
2004
Fire is Favorable to the Dreamer
Susan Terris
2003
Prism
David St. John
Areté Books
United Kingdom
2019
Or
Oliver Reynolds
2011
Hodge
Oliver Reynolds
2010
A Scattering
Christopher Reid
Arlen House
Ireland
2016
Grim
Kate Newmann
2012
The Hiding Place
Tom Duddy
2012
The Weight of Feathers
Geraldine Mitchell
2011
An Urgency of Stars
Geraldine Mills
Armenian International Women’s Association
United States
2006
The Other Voice
Diana Der-Hovanessian (Tr.)
ARP Books
Canada
2020
Romans/Snowmare
Cam Scott
2017
Totem Poles & Railroads
Janet Rogers
2016
Talking to the Diaspora
Lee Maracle
Arrowsmith Press
USA
2024
Shortlisted
2024
The Burning World
Sherod Santos
2024
Tiny Extravaganzas
Diane Mehta
2023
Some of You Will Know
David Rivard
2023
This Costly Season
John Okrent
2023
Thorny
Judith Baumel
2023
Unrevolutionary Times
Houman Harouni
Arsenal Pulp Press
Canada
2024
More Sure
A. Light Zachary
2023
Beast at Every Threshold
Natalie Wee
2023
Swollening
Jason Purcell
🇨🇦
2022
Iron Goddess of Mercy
Larissa Lai
2022
nedi nezu (Good Medicine)
Tenille K. Campbell
2021
My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
Amber Dawn
2021
Render
Sachiko Murakami
2021
The Gospel of Breaking
Jillian Christmas
2020
Disintegrate/Dissociate
Arielle Twist
2020
Tonguebreaker
Leah Lakshmi Pipezna-Samarasinha
2018
a place called No Homeland
Kai Cheng Thom
2017
even this page is white
Vivek Shraya
2013
Impact: The Titanic Poems
Billeh Nickerson
2003
Between Lovers
Sheri-D Wilson
2003
Pulse
Rajinderpal S. Pal
2001
The Asthmatic Glassblower
Billeh Nickerson