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.
Penguin Random House Canada
Canada
2023
Longlisted
2019
Shortlisted
2019
God of Shadows
Lorna Crozier
2004
Beyond this Dark House
Guy Gavriel Kay
Penguin Random House Canada/Anchor Canada
Canada
2007
The Talking Horse & the Sad Girl & the Village Under the Sea
Mark Haddon
Penguin Random House India
India
2018
Meghadutam: The Cloud Message
Srinivas Reddy,
Kalidasa
2013
The River Speaks: The Vaiyai Poems from the Paripatal
V. N. Muthukumar,
Elizabeth Rani Segran
2012
Gitanjali
William Radice,
Rabindranath Tagore
2012
I, Lalla
Ranjit Hoskote,
Lal Ded
2012
In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau
Sunil Sharma,
Paul Losensky,
Amir Khusrau
2012
Red Lilies and Frightened Birds: Muttollayiram
M. L. Thangappa
2011
Love Stands Alone
M. L. Thangappa,
Tamil Sangam Poetry
2009
Selected Poems: Gulzar
Pavan K. Varma,
Gulzar
2009
The Sun will Rise Again: Selected Poems
Sudhamahi Reghunanthan,
Acharya Mahaprajna
2008
Ruskin Bond's Book of Verse
Ruskin Bond
2007
Collected Poems: 1970-2005
Keki N. Daruwalla
2007
Every Time I Wake Up: Poems
V. P. Singh
2007
Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005
Ranjit Hoskote
2006
A Life Lived Later: Poems
Anurag Mathur
2006
I Promise to e a Good Girl, God
Kamini Banga
2006
St Cyril Road and Other Poems
Amit Chaudhuri
2005
Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray
Sampurna Chattarji,
Sukumar Ray
2005
Collected Poems: 1954-2004
Dom Moraes
2005
English: Poems
Jeet Thayil
2005
Yellow Hibiscus: New and Selected Poems
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
2002
my mother's way of wearing a sari
Sujata Bhatt
2001
Where Parallel Lines Meet
Tabish Khair
Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
United Kingdom
2020
Shortlisted
2017
Winner
2015
Winner
2005
Shortlisted
2020
I Want! I Want!
Vicki Feaver
2020
Nobody
2019
Green Noise
Jean Sprackland
2019
Playtime
Andrew McMillan
2019
The Scottish Ambassador
Robert Crawford
2018
Angel Hill
2018
Mancunia
2018
Still Life with Feeding Snake
John Burnside
2018
The Abandoned Settlements
James Sheard
2018
The Radio
Leontia Flynn
2017
Float
2017
Interference Pattern
J. O. Morgan
2017
Interference Pattern
J. O. Morgan
2017
Odes
2015
All One Breath
John Burnside
2015
Bright Travellers
Fiona Benson
2015
Testament
Robert Crawford
2014
Archangel
Henry Shukman
2014
Drysalter
2014
Red Doc>
2014
Sleeping Keys
Jean Sprackland
2013
Bee Journal
Sean Borodale
2013
June Fourth Elegies
Jeffrey Yang,
Liu Xiaobo
2013
Stag's Leap
2013
Voluntary
Adam Thorpe
2013
Water Sessions
James Lasdun
2012
A Hundred Doors
2012
Black Cat Bone
John Burnside
2012
Profit and Loss
Leonita Flynn
2011
Dammtor
James Sheard
2011
New Light for the Old Dark
Sam Willetts
2011
Walking Papers
Thomas Lynch
2010
Caf
John Hartley Williams
2010
One Secret Thing
2010
The Hunt in the Forest
John Burnside
2009
Drives
Leontia Flynn
2009
Full Volume
Robert Crawford
2009
The Broken Word
Adam Foulds
2009
The Half-Healed
2009
Theories and Apparitions
Mark Doty
2008
Birds with a Broken Wing
Adam Thorpe
2008
Black Moon
Matthew Sweeney
2008
Demolition
Neil Rollinson
2008
Gift Songs
John Burnside
2008
Tilt
Jean Sprackland
2007
Collected Poems
2007
The Book of Blood
Vicki Feaver
2005
Blues
John Hartley Williams
2005
Sanctuary
Matthew Sweeney
2005
Snow Water
2005
These Days
Leontia Flynn
2004
Hard Water
Jean Sprackland
2004
Nine Lessons from the Dark
Adam Thorpe
2004
The Tip of my Tongue
Robert Crawford
2003
From The Virgil Caverns
Peter Redgrove
2003
In Doctor No's Garden
Henry Shukman
2003
Selected Poems
Matthew Sweeney
2003
The Light Trap
John Burnside
2002
Burning Babylon
2002
Spanish Fly
Neil Rollinson
2002
Spending Time with Walter
John Hartley Williams
2002
The Beauty of the Husband
2002
The Florists at Midnight
Sarah Maguire
2001
A Smell of fish
Matthew Sweeney
2001
Men in the Off Hours
2001
The Asylum Dance
John Burnside
2001
The Weather in Japan
Penned in the Margins
United Kingdom
2021
Plastiglomerate
Tim Cresswell
2021
Sanatorium
Abi Palmer
2021
The Actual
Inua Ellams
2020
After the Formalities
Anthony Anaxagorou
2019
An Ocean of Static
J. R. Carpenter
2019
The Triumph of Cancer
Chris McCabe
2018
At Hajj
Amaan Hyder
2018
Swims
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
2017
Asteronymes
Claire Trevien
2017
Cain
Luke Kennard
2017
Spacecraft
John McCullough
2017
Sunshine
Melissa Lee-Houghton
2016
Fence
Tim Cresswell
2016
Sunspots
Simon Barraclough
2016
The Good Dark
Ryan van Winkle
2016
The Story of No
Emma Hammond
2015
Speculatrix
Chris McCabe
2015
The Hard Word Box
Sarah Hesketh
2014
Beautiful Girls
Melissa Lee-Houghton
2014
Beowulf
Meghan Purvis
2014
Digital Monsoon
Siddhartha Bose
2014
Forms of Protest
Hannah Silva
2014
Human Form
Oliver Dixon
2014
Mondeo Man
Luke Wright
2014
Soil
Tim Cresswell
2014
The Shipwrecked House
Claire Trevien
Penumbra Press
Canada
2018
Of Feathers and Fire: Fragments from a Fractured Mind
Sarah Cooper
2013
Carillonneur
Tony Cosier
2013
The Narcoleptic Madonna
Kim Fahner
2001
Letters on Birchbark (Translation)
Uta Regoli
2001
Scissor, Paper, Woman
Marianne Bluger
2001
The sound of strength (Translation)
Sirkka Turkka
Persea Books
United States
2021
Shoreless
Enid Shomer
2018
Orexia
Lisa Russ Spaar
2018
Proprietary
Randall Mann
2018
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
Molly McCully Brown
2017
An Ecology of Elsewhere
Sandra Meek
2017
Brooklyn Antediluvian
Patrick Rosal
2017
On This Day in Poetry History
Amy Newman
2013
Vanitas, Rough
Lisa Russ Spaar
2012
Clean
Kate Northrop
2010
Apocalyptic Swing
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2009
A Metaphorical God
Kimberly Johnson
2007
My American Kundiman
Patrick Rosal
2007
Sakura Park
Rachel Wetzsteon
2007
Tokyo Butter
Thylias Moss
2006
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2005
Blue Venus
Lisa Russ Spaar
PhoneMeMedia
United States
2017
Smooth-Talking Dog
Anthony Seidman,
Roberto Castillo Udiarte
2017
Standing on Earth
Lyn Coffin,
Mohsen Emadi
2017
The End of the Dark Era
Simon Wickhamsmith,
Tseveendorjin Oidov
2016
Rilke Shake
Hilary Kaplan,
Angelica Freitas
2016
The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
Clare Sullivan,
Natalia Toledo
2016
Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile
Jeffrey Yang,
Ahmatjan Osman
2015
Diorama
Anna Rosenwong,
Rocia Ceron
Picador Poetry
United Kingdom
2021
Grimoire
Robin Robertson
2021
How the Hell Are You
Glyn Maxwell
2021
It Says Here
2021
My Darling from the Lions
Rachel Long
2021
The M Pages
Colette Bryce
2021
The Readiness
Alan Gillis
2020
Insomnia
John Kinsella
2020
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Richard Osmond
2020
Search Party
Richard Meier
2020
The Mizzy
2019
Europa
2019
Running Upon the Wires
Kate Tempest
2019
Sincerity
Carol Ann Duffy
2019
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
2019
The Luckiest Guy Alive
John Cooper Clarke
2018
Bantam
Jackie Kay
2018
Plum
Hollie McNish
2018
Useful Verses
Richard Osmond
2017
Gate of Lilacs
Clive James
2017
Jackself
Jacob Polley
2017
Let Them Eat Chaos
Kate Tempest
2017
The Blind Roadmaker
Ian Duhig
2017
The Remedies
Katharine Towers
2017
Void Studies
2016
Disinformation
Frances Leviston
2016
Sentenced to Life
Clive James
2016
The Beautiful Librarians
2016
The Bonniest Companie
2016
The Golden Mean
2016
The Remains
Annie Freud
2015
Byssus
Jen Hadfield
2015
Hold Your Own
Kate Tempest
2015
Sack
John Kinsella
2015
The Whole & Rain-Domed Universe
Colette Bryce
2015
There Will Be No More Nonsense
Lorraine Mariner
2014
Brand New Ancients
Kate Tempest
2014
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Clive James,
Dante Alighieri
2014
Pilgrim's Flow
2014
Pluto
Glyn Maxwell
2013
Banjo
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
2013
Misadventure
Richard Meier
2013
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Clive James
2013
The Dark Film
2013
The Havocs
Jacob Polley
2013
The Overhaul
2013
The Seacunny
Gerard Woodward
2012
Armour
John Kinsella
2012
Fiere
Jackie Kay
2012
Sidereal
2012
The Bees
Carol Ann Duffy
2011
Interior Night
John Stammers
2011
Pandorama
Ian Duhig
2011
The Floating Man
Katharine Towers
2011
The Mirabelles
Annie Freud
2010
Better Than God
Peter Porter
2010
Furniture
Lorraine Mariner
2009
Hide Now
Glyn Maxwell
2009
Not In These Shoes
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
2009
Self-Portrait in the Dark
Colette Bryce
2009
Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful
John Kinsella
2008
Public Dream
Frances Leviston
2008
The Best Man That Ever Was
Annie Freud
2008
The Drowned Book
2008
The Speed of Dark
Ian Duhig
2007
Little Gods
Jacob Polley
2006
Rapture
Carol Ann Duffy
2006
Stolen Love Behaviour
John Stammers
2006
The Sugar Mile
Glyn Maxwell
2006
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girla dn the Village Under the Sea
Mark Haddon
2005
Afterburner
Peter Porter
2005
Newborn
Kate Clanchy
2005
The Full Indian Rope Trick
Colette Bryce
2005
The Tree House
2004
The Brink
Jacob Polley
2004
The Capital of Nowhere
Peter Armstrong
2004
The Lammas Hireling
Ian Duhig
2003
Feminine Gospels
Carol Ann Duffy
2003
The Ice Age
2002
Downriver
2002
Max is Missing
Peter Porter
2002
The Panoramic Lounge-Bar
John Stammers
2001
A la recherch
Craig Raine
2001
CONJURE
Michael Donaghy
2001
The Heel of Bernadette
Colette Bryce