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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.

Harbour Publishing

Canada
2008
Earth's Crude Gravities
2008
High Speed Through Shoaling Water
Tom Wayman
2008
Last Water Song
Patrick Lane

Harcourt

United States
2008
Bucolics
Maurice Manning
2008
Failure
Philip Schultz
2008
Windcatcher
Breyten Breytenbach

HarperCollins/Ecco

United States
2008
A Worldly Country
2008 Winner
2008
The Collected Poems
Alissa Valles, Zbigniew Herbert

HarperCollins/Harper Perennial

United States
2008
Novel Pictorial Noise
Noah Gordon

Harvill Secker

United Kingdom
2008
The Laughter of Mothers
Paul Durcan

Highridge Books Publishers

Zambia
2008
The Ballad of Rwanda and Other Poems
Stembridge Fredrick Mulapa

Host Publications

United States
2008
Return to Calm
Aaron Prevots, Jacques Reda

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

United States
2008
Magnetic North
Linda Gregerson
2008
Silence Fell
Josephine Dickinson
2008
Space Walk
Tom Sleigh
2008
The Broken String
Grace Schulman
2008
Vellum
Matt Donovan

House of Anansi

Canada
2008
Domain
Barbara Nickel
2008
O Cadoiro
2008
Yesno
Dennis Lee

Howling Dog Press/Omega Editions

United States
2008
When
David Ray

Inanna Publications

Canada
2008
Backhand Through the Mother
Renee Norman
2008
Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices
Ruth Panofsky

Insomniac Press

Canada
2008
A Newer Wilderness
Roseanne Carrara
2008
Shell
Olive Senior
2008 Shortlisted

Iris Press

United States
2008
Deep Light: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2007
Rebecca McClanahan
2008
Still Enough to be Dreaming
Charlotte Hilary Matthews
2008
The Golden Ratio
Keith Flynn
2008
Yaya's Cloth
Andrea Potos

Leaf Press

Canada
2008
Ride Backwards on Dragon
Kim Goldberg
2008
The Discipline of Undressing
K. Louise Vincent

LSU Press

United States
2008
Blessings and Inclemencies: Poems
Constance Merritt
2008
Floating City: Poems
Anne Pierson Wiese
2008
From Whence: Poems
Michael Chitwood
2008
Geronimo After Kas-ki-yeh: Poems
Rawdon Tomlinson
2008
Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems
Kelly Cherry
2008
Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005
Ron Smith
2008
Ocean Effects: Poems
Brendan Galvin
2008
One Body: Poems
Margaret Gibson
2008
Range of Light: Poems
Catharine Savage Brosman
2008
The Devil's Cookbook: Poems
Sue Owen
2008
The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two
Jay Wright
2008
The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems
2008
The Ship of Birth: Poems
Greg Delanty
2008
Without a Philosophy: Poems
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Luath Press

United Kingdom
2008
Beyond the Sun
Edwin Morgan
2008
Bodywork
Dilys Rose

Luna Publications

Canada
2008
Ceasefire in Purgatory
Colin Carberry
2008
Making Bones Walk
Alex Boyd

Make Now Press

United States
2008
Traffic
Kenneth Goldsmith

Mansfield Press

Canada
2008
Aesthetics Lesson
Christopher Doda
2008
Floors of Enduring Beauty
Steve Venright
2008
The Bone Broker
Lillian Necakov

Marick Press

United States
2008
Folding a River
Kawita Kandpal