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.
NeWest Press
Canada
2025
Attic Rain
Samantha Jones
🇨🇦
2025
Dreams of the Epoch and the Rock
Jaspreet Singh
2023
How to Hold a Pebble
Jaspreet Singh
2022
Coconut
Nisha Patel
2022
rump + flank
Carol Harvey Steski
2021
Lullabies in the Real World
Meredith Quartermain
2021
The Response of Weeds
Bertrand Bickersteth
2020
let us not think of them as barbarians
Peter Midgley
2019
Paper Caskets
Emilia Danielewska
2019
Tar Swan
David Martin
2019
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Kayla Geitzler
2017
Documentaries
Walter Hildebrandt
2016
Hillsdale Book
Gerald Hill
2014
Seldom Seen Road
Jenna Butler
2013
Geographies of a Lover
Sarah de Leeuw
2013
Restless White Fields
Barbara Langhorst
2009
Nightmarker
Meredith Quartermain
2008
fluttertongue 4:adagio for the pressured surround
Steven Ross Smith
2008
Paper Trail
Arleen Paré
2008
The Bindery
Shane Rhodes
2006
Blue Feast
Shawna Lemay
2006
This Way the Road
Nina Berkhout
2006
Vancouver Walking
Meredith Quartermain
2006
Were the Bees
Andy Weaver
2004
Letters from Deadman's Cay
Nina Berkhout
2004
The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001
Stephen Scobie
2001
Fragmenting Body etc.
Douglas Barbour
2001
The Wireless Room
Shane Rhodes
Nightboat Books
United States
2025
apparitions (nines)
Nat Raha
2025
Boiled Owls
Azad Ashim Sharma
2025
Consider the Rooster
Oliver Bendorf
2025
Death Styles
Joyelle McSweeney
2025
If I Gather Here and Shout
Funto Omojola
2025
Instructions for The Lovers
Dawn Lundy Martin
2025
Laura's Desires
Laura Henriksen
2025
Lonespeech
Johannes Göransson (Tr.),
Ann Jäderlund
2025
Love Is Colder than the Lake
Sarah Riggs (Tr.),
Lindsay Turner (Tr.),
Liliane Giraudon
2025
Material Witness
Aditi Machado
2025
Our Air
Nora Treatbaby
2025
Watchnight
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
2024
A Beauty Has Come
Jasmine Gibson
2024
Don't Leave Me This Way
Eric Sneathen
2024
Hydra Medusa
Brandon Shimoda
2024
Notes from the Passenger
Gillian Conoley
2024
Pink Noise
Dior J. Stephens
2024
Poem Bitten by a Man
Brian Teare
2024
return
Emily Lee Luan
2024
Teeter
Kimberly Alidio
2023
A Queen in Bucks County
Kay Gabriel
2023
Aerial Concave Without Cloud
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
2023
Ante body
Marwa Helal
2023
Desgraciado (the collected letters)
Angel Dominguez
2023
La Movida
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
2023
Madness
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
2023
MissSettl
Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
2023
Of Mineral
Tiff Dressen
2023
Prescribee
Chia-Lun Chang
2023
Togetherness
Wo Chan
2023
Ultramarine
Wayne Koestenbaum
2022
A Feeling Called Heaven
Joey Yearous-Algozin
2022
Active Reception
Noah Ross
2022
All the Rage
Rosamond S. King
2022
Art in Time
2022
Aux Arch Trypt Ich: Poppycock and Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees
Cody-Rose Clevidence
2022
CURB
Divya Victor
2022
Imagine Us, The Swarm
Muriel Leung
2022
Irredenta
Oscar Oswald
2022
No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body
Asiya Wadud
2022
OBB
Paolo Javier
2022
Permanent Volta
Rosie Stockton
2022
The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void
Jackie Wang
2022
Vibratory Milieu
Carrie Hunter
2022
Villainy
Andrea Abi-Karam
2021
Emporium
Aditi Machado
2021
Like Bismuth When I Enter
Carlos Lara
2021
Repetition Nineteen
Monica de la Torre
2021
Shifting the Silence
2021
The Blue Absolute
Aaron Shurin
2021
Toxicon and Arachne
Joyelle McSweeney
2020
Action in the Orchards
Fred Schmalz
2020
Alisoun Sings
Caroline Bergvall
2020
Doomstead Days
Brian Teare
2020
Hull
Xandria Phillips
2020
Invasiv species
Marwa Helal
2020
Little Million Doors
Chad Sweeney
2020
Personal Volcano
Laura Moriarty
2020
Pet Sounds
Stephanie Young
2020
Slingshot
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
2020
Speech
Jill Magi
2020
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
Jayy Dodd
2020
The Next Loves
Lindsay Turner (Tr.),
Stéphane Bouquet
2020
What I Knew
Eleni Sikelianos
2019
A Year From Today
Stacy Szymaszek
2019
Camp Marmalade
Wayne Koestenbaum
2019
Crosslight for Youngbird
Asiya Wadud
2019
Don't Let Them See Me Like This
Jasmine Gibson
2019
ESL or You Weren't Here
Aldrin Valdez
2019
Livingry
Gracie Leavitt
2019
Some Animal
Ely Shipley
2019
Suelo tide Cement
Christina Vega-Westhoff
2019
Surge
2019
Vigilance is No Orchard
Hazel White
2018
a body in spite
Nathanael (Tr.),
Alain Jugnon
2018
Ears
Jared Stanley
2018
Field Theories
Samiya Bashir
2018
I Love it Though
Alli Warren
2018
No Dictionary of a Living Tongue
Duriel E. Harris
2018
On Walking On
2018
Paraguayan Sea
Erín Moure (Tr.),
Wilson Bueno
2018
Rock|Salt|Stone
Rosamond S. King
2018
Silk Poems
Jen Bervin
2018
Some Beheadings
Aditi Machado
2017
Dianoia
Michael Heller
2017
Fleshgraphs
Brynne Rebele-Henry
2017
Hell Figures
E. Tracy Grinnell
2017
Hotel abc
Susan Gevirtz
2017
Remembering Animals
Brenda Iijima
2017
The Consequences of My Body
Maged Zaher
2017
The Old Philosopher
Vi Khi Nao
2017
Threnody
Juliet Patterson
2016
Court of the Dragon
Paolo Javier
2016
hart island
Stacy Szymaszek
2016
Land Sparing
Gabriella Klein
2016
Landscapes on a Train
2016
Letterrs
Orlando White
2016
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Dawn Lundy Martin
2016
Swimming Home
Vincent Katz
2016
The Islands
John Sakkis
2016
The Pink Trance Notebooks
Wayne Koestenabaum
2015
A Several World
Brian Blanchfield
2015
DRIFT
Caroline Bergvall
2015
Labor
Jill Magi
2015
Mature Themes
Andrew Durbin
2015
Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star
Gracie Leavitt
2015
The Tribute Horse
Brandon Som
2015
Who That Divines
Laura Moriarty
2013
Inmost
Jessica Fisher
2013
Music for Porn
Rob Halpern
2013
Partially Kept
Martha Ronk
2013
Sea and Fog
2013
Sisyphus, Outdone: Theatres of the Catastrophal
Nathanael
2007
The Truant Lover
Juliet Patterson
Nightwood Editions
Canada
2025
Excerpts from a Burned Letter
Joelle Barron
2025
Fine
Matt Rader
2025
I Feel That Way Too
jaz papadopoulos
🇨🇦
2025
I Hate Parties
Jes Battis
2025
Teeth
Dallas Hunt
2024
Alternator
Chris Banks
2024
Bramah's Quest
Renée Sarojini Saklikar
2024
Crushed Wild Mint
Jess Housty
🇨🇦
2024
Dream House
Cathy Stonehouse
2024
Dreaming Under Polka-Dot Stars
Cory Besskepp Cofer
2024
Old Gods
Conor Kerr
2023
Cut to Fortress
Tawahum Bige
🇨🇦
2023
Hesitating Once to Feel Glory
Maleea Acker
2023
Nevertheless
Gillian Jerome
2023
Shapeshifters
Delani Valin
🇨🇦
2023
The Punishment
2022
Bramah and the Beggar Boy
Renée Sarojini Saklikar
2022
Creeland
Dallas Hunt
2022
Deepfake Serenade
Chris Banks
2022
Ghosthawk
Matt Rader
2022
None of This Belongs to Me
Ellie Sawatzky
2022
Pebble Swing
Isabella Wang
2022
The Pit
Tara Borin
2022
Undoing Hours
Selina Boan
2021
Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation
Curtis LeBlanc
2021
Body Count
Kyla Jamieson
2021
it was never going to be okay
Jaye Simpson
2021
The Whole Singing Ocean
Jessica Moore
2020
Belated ris of the rainsick
Lucas Crawford
2020
Fresh Pack of Smokes
Cassandra Blanchard
2020
Near Miss
Laura Matwichuk
2020
Outside America
Sarah de Leeuw
2020
Renaissance Normcore
Adèle Barclay
2020
Visual Inspection
Matt Rader
2019
After the hatching Oven
David Alexander
2019
Bec and Call
Jenna Lyn Albert
2019
Little Wild
Curtis LeBlanc
2019
Our Familiar Hunger
Laisha Rosnau
2019
What Your Hands Have Done
Chris Bailey
2018
Bad Ideas
Michael V. Smith
2018
Cruise Missile Liberals
Spencer Gordon
2018
Landfall
Joe Denham
2018
Next Door to the Butcher Shop
Rodney DeCroo
2018
The Panic Room
Rebecca P?pucaru
2018
then/again
Michelle Elrick
2017
Digsite
Owain Nicholson
2017
How Festive the Ambulance
Kim Fu
2017
How to Be Eaten by a Lion
Michael Johnson
2017
If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You
Adèle Barclay
2017
The Duende of Tetherball
Tim Bowling
2017
The Red Files
Lisa Bird-Wilson
2017
Witness, I am
Gregory Scofield
2016
Floating is Everything
Sheryda Warrrener
2016
Hastings - Sunrise
Bren Simmers
2016
Mayor Snow
Nick Thran
2016
Regeneration Machine
Joe Denham
2016
Transmitter and Receiver
Raoul Fernandes
2016
undercurrent
Rita Wong
2015
Canoodlers
Andrea Bennett
2015
Cycling with the Dragon
Elaine Woo
2015
For Your Safety Please Hold On
Kayla Czaga
2015
Old Hat
Rob Winger
2015
Pluck
Laisha Rosnau
2015
The things I heard about you
Alex Leslie
2015
There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore
Adrienne Weiss
2014
children of air india
Renée Sarojini Saklikar
2014
Ink on Paper
Brad Cran
2014
Songs that Remind Us of Factories
Danny Jacobs
2014
The Hottest Summer in Recorded History
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2014
Timely Irreverence
Jay MillAr
2014
X: Poems & Anti-Poems
Shane Rhodes
2014
Zeppelin
Blaise Moritz
2013
A Brief History of the Short-lived
Chris Hutchinson
2013
Allegheny, BC
Rodney DeCroo
2013
Dirt of Ages
Gillian Wigmore
2013
Occupations
Chris Jennings
2013
Undark: An Oratorio
Sandy Pool
2013
Wedding in Fire Country
Darren Bifford
2012
Earworm
Nick Thran
2012
Embouchue
Kevin McNeilly
2012
Err
Shane Rhodes
2012
Kerosene
Jamella Hagen
2012
Louis: The Heretic Poems
Gregory Scofield
2012
Tenderman
Tim Bowling
2012
The Material Sublime
Carleton Wilson
2011
Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon
Ray Hsu
2011
Histories Haunt Us
Triny Finlay
2011
Other Poems
Jay MillAr
2011
Patternicity
Jim Johnstone
2011
The Chimney Stone
Rob Winger
2010
God of Missed Connections
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2010
Lousy Explorers
Laisha Rosnau
2010
Never More There
Stephen Rowe
2010
Red Nest
Gillian Jerome
2010
Windstorm
Joe Denham
2009
Letters I Didn't Write
John MacKenzie
2009
Little Hunger
Philip Kevin Paul
2009
Living Things
Matt Rader
2009
Repose
Adam Getty
2009
The Book Collector and Other Poems
Tim Bowling
2008
Birch Split Bark
Diane Guichon
2008
Forage
Rita Wong
2008
Muybridge's Horse
Rob Winger
2008
The Love Songs of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sharon McCartney
2008
The Rush to Here
George Murray
2007
Hitch
Matthew Holmes
2007
Home of Sudden Service
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2007
The Cold Panes of Surfaces
Chris Banks
2006
False Maps for Other Creatures
Jay MillAr
2006
Miraculous Hours
Matt Rader
2006
The Clicheist
Amanda Lamarche
2005
Anthropy
Ray Hsu
2005
Monks' Fruit
A. J. Levin
2005
Notes on Leaving
Laisha Rosnau
2005
Splitting Off
Triny Finlay
2005
Teethmarks
Sina Queyras
2004
Bonfires
Chris Banks
2004
Flux
Joe Denham
2004
Pouring Small Fire
Susan Manchester
2004
Reconciliation
Adam Getty
2004
Taking the Names Down from the Hill
Philip Kevin Paul
2004
The Witness Ghost
Tim Bowling
2004
The Words Wanting Out: Selected Poems
Barry Dempster
2003
Cruise Control
Ken Howe
2003
Head Full of Sun
Carla Funk
2003
Intimate Distances
Fiona Tinwei Lam
2003
The Good Life
Brad Cran
2002
Blue Himalayan Poppies
Jay Ruzesky
2002
Darkness and Silence
Tim Bowling
2002
Garments of the known
Norm Sacuta
2002
Slant
Andy Quan
2002
The Chick at the Back of the Church
Billie Livingston
2001
As Though The Gods Love Us
Poh Seng Goh
2001
Basmati Brown
Phinder Dulai
Nimbus Publishing
Canada
2021
I place you into the fire
Rebecca Thomas
2020
Portia White: A Portrait in Words
George Elliott Clarke
2020
You Won't Always Be This Sad - A Book of Moments
Sheree Fitch
Nine Arches Press
United Kingdom
2023
Living By Troubled Waters
Roy McFarlane
2023
Notes from A Shipwreck
Jessica Mookherjee
2023
Proof of Life on Earth
Degna Stone
2023
Still Life With Octopus
Tania Hershman
2022
Honorifics
Cynthia Miller
2022
single window
Daniel Sluman
2022
The Attitudes
Katie Griffiths
2022
warm blooded things
Shaun Hill
2021
Letters Home
Jennifer Wong
2021
Little Kings
Peter Kahn
2021
Magnolia
Nina Mingya Powles
2021
Maskwork
Gregory Leadbetter
2021
What Girls Do in the Dark
Rosie Garland
2019
Cyclone
Robert Peake
2019
Near Future
Suzannah Evans
2019
Passport
Richie McCaffery
2019
The Healing Next Time
Roy McFarlane
2017
The Fetch
Gregory Leadbetter
Nirala Publications
India
2017
A Blizzard in My Bones: New York Poems
Yuyutsu Sharma
2017
Out from Calaboose
Karen Corinne Herceg
2017
Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems
Yuyutsu Sharma
2009
After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
David Ray
Noemi Press
USA
2024
a record of how the mother's textile became sound
Nawal Nader-French
2024
City Without Altar
Jasminne Mendez
2024
Gorgoneion
Casey Rocheteau
2024
nature felt but never apprehended
Angela Peñaredondo
2022
Besiege Me
Nicholas Wong
2022
The Betweens
Cynthia Arrieu-King
2021
Defacing the Monument
Susan Briante
2020
Careen
Grace Shuyi Liew
2017
The Art of Work
Jen Fitzgerald
2014
Striven, The Bright Treatise
Jeffrey Pethybridge
North Atlantic Books
United States
2012
The Seasons of the Soul
Ludwig Max Fischer (Tr.),
Hermann Hesse
North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc.
United States
2002
Quilt Pieces
Mary Willette Hughes
2002
Ride That Full Tilt Boogie
Linda Back McKay
2002
The Turning of Wheels
Larry Schug
Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England
2007
A Form of Optimism
Roy Jacobstein
Northwestern University Press
United States
2014
Autogeography
Reginald Harris
2014
Birthplace with Buried Stones
Meena Alexander
2014
Grains of the Voice
Christina Pugh
2014
Halting Steps
Claribel Alegria (Tr.),
Claribel Alegria
2014
Like a Misunderstood Salvation & Other Poems
Annette Smith (Tr.),
Dominic Thomas (Tr.),
Aime Cesaire
2014
Pitch Dark Anarchy
Randall Horton
2014
Selected Poems
James McGavran (Tr.),
Vladimir Mayakovsky
2014
September
Rachel Jamison Webster
2013
Horse in the Dark
Vievee Francis
2013
Poems
David Georgi (Tr.),
Francois Villon
2011
Honeycomb
Carol Frost
2011
Stateside
Jehanne Dubrow
2011
The Gate of Horn
L. S. Asekoff
2011
Through the Stonecutter's Window
Indigo Moor
2010
History of Hurricanes
Teresa Cader
2009
Restoration
Christina Pugh
2009
Stranger's Notebook
Nomi Stone
2009
The Note She Left
Susan Hahn
2006
A Room in California
Laurence Goldstein
2006
Change of Address
David R. Slavitt
2006
Self/Pity
Susan Hahn
2006
To Be in This Number
Alane Rollings
2005
A Voice: Selected Poems
Andrew Wachtel (Tr.),
Anzhelina Polonskaya
2004
The Promised Folly
Judith Hall
2001
City of Ash (Translation)
Eugenijus Alisanka
Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books
USA
2025
Velvet
William Fargason
2024
Loner Forensics
Thea Brown
2024
Synthetic Jungle
Michael Chang
2013
Sweet Spot: Poems
J. T. Barbarese
Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books
United States
2022
Fire Is Not a Country
Cynthia Dewi Oka
2022
The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse
Kevin Simmonds
2008
Three Trios (J II)
Judith Hall
2002
Bone & Juice
Adrian C. Louis
2002
Star Apocrypha
Christopher Buckley
2001
Love and Scorn
Carol Frost
2001
You Are Here
Paul Breslin
Novalis Publishing
Canada
2021
Reupholstered Psalms: Ancient Songs Sung Anew
Greg Kennedy SJ
2010
Names of Blessing
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco