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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.

Excelsior Editons/Suny Press

United States
2016
Nearer to Never: Poems
R. S. Mason
2016
Reality Crumbs: Selected Poems
Tsipi Keller, Raquel Chalfi

Exile Editions

Canada
2016
Entrainment
Ewan Whyte
2016
Extra Illicit Sonnets
George Elliott Clarke
2016
In a Time of no Song
Jeff Bien
2016
Sword Dance
Veronica Gaylie

Eyewear Publishing

United Kingdom
2016
Honey & Smoke
Sean Singer
2016
Hungerpots
Jacquelyn Pope, Hester Knibbe
2016
Queen, Jewel, Mistress
Ruth Stacey

Faber & Faber

United Kingdom
2016 Shortlisted
2016
Happiness
Jack Underwood
2016
Kim Kardashian's Marriage
Sam Riviere
2016
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
2016
Peace Talks
Andrew Motion
2016
The Curiosities
Christopher Reid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

United States
2016
Far-Fetched
Devn Johnston
2016 Shortlisted
2016
Nothing to Declare
Henri Cole
2016
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
2016
Reconnaissance
2016
The Emperor of Water Clocks

Fence Books

United States
2016
Ampersand Revisited
Simeon Berry
2016
Bitter Green
Martin Corless-Smith
2016
Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno
Ed Pavlic
2016
Sleeper Hold
Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Fern Hill Publications

Canada
2016
Unspoken: an inheritance of words
Connie T. Braun

Five Islands Press

Australia
2016
This Intimate War: Gallipoli 1915
Robyn Rowland

Flood Editions

United States
2016
Net Needle
Robert Adamson
2016
Time Down to Mind
Graham Foust

Fordham University Press

United States
2016
Cyclorama
Daneen Wardrop
2016
On Generation & Corruption
Terrance Chiusano

Four Way Books

United States
2016
Bastards of the Reagan Era
Reginald Dwayne Betts
2016
Furs Not Mine
Andrea Cohen
2016
Lighting the Shadow
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
2016
Longevity
Laurel Blossom
2016
Repetition
Rebecca Reilly
2016
The Cumulus Effect
J. Mae Barizo
2016
The Names of Birds
Daniel Wolff
2016
Tidal
Josh Kalscheur

Freight Books

United Kingdom
2016
Killochries
Jim Carruth
2016
The Green Dress Whose Girl is Sleeping
Russell Jones
2016
Tonguit
Harry Giles

Frontenac House

Canada
2016
Changelings
Cassy Welburn
2016
Niche
Basma Kavanagh
2016
Two Minds
Harold Rhenisch

Futurepoem Books

United States
2016
Solar Maximum
Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Gallery Books/MTV Books

United States
2016
US(a.)
Saul Williams

Giramondo Publishing

Australia
2016
Cocky's Joy
Michael Farrell
2016
Inside My Mother
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Glagoslav Publications

United Kingdom
2016
Gnedich
Elena Dimov, Maria Rybakova

Graywolf Press

United States
2016
Application for Release from the Dream
Tony Hoagland
2016
Empy Chairs
Ming Di, Jennifer Stern, Liu Xia
2016
Four-Legged Girl
Diane Seuss
2016
My Feelings
Nick Flynn
2016
Selfish
Albert Goldbarth
2016
Station Zed
Tom Sleigh
2016
The Last Two Seconds
Mary Jo Bang

Guernica Editions

Canada
2016
A Housecoat Remains
Tina Biello
2016
Deadly Nightshade
Margita Gailitis, Liana Langa
2016
In The Garden of I Am
Max Layton
2016
In Your Crib
Austin Clarke
2016
Logos
Gil Fagiani
2016
Pondering the Weight of Being
Marco Sonzogni, Ross Woods, Giorgio Orelli
2016
Somersault
Nancy Anne Miller
2016
The Weight
Ken Norris
2016
Verge
Lynda Monahan
2016
We are no longer the smart kids in class
David Huebert

Guildhall Press

United Kingdom
2016
Milk Teeth
Julieann Campbell