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.
Open Letter Books
United States
2014
When We Leave Each Other
Patrick Phillips (Tr.),
Henrik Nordbrandt
Oracle Books Limited
Nigeria
2023
All Our Precious Things
Ogohukwu Promise
2004
Boundless Vessels
Promise O. Okekwe
2003
Scents of Dawn
Austyn Njoku
2002
Temples and Distances
Promise O. Okekwe
2002
The Labyrinth of Hope
Ismail Omamegbe
2002
The Wayfarer and Other Poems
Pius Adesanmi
Orison Books
USA
2025
Blue Exodus
Hussain Ahmed
2025
The Concealment of Endless Light
Yehoshua November
2024
Dreams of Xibalba
Stephanie Adams-Santos
2024
Prayershreds
Bruce Beasley
2023
Dear, If
Mary B. Moore
2023
Sanctuary, Vermont
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
2022
Arsenal With Praise Song
Rodney Gomez
2022
Post-Mortem
Heather Altfeld
2022
Traveling with the Ghosts
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
2022
Wolf Lamb Bomb
Aviya Kushner
2021
Obscura
Frank Paino
2020
As One Fire Consumes Another
John Sibley Williams
2020
Some Unimaginable Animal
David Ebenbach
2019
Cerremonial
Carly Joy Miller
2018
Ghost Child of the Atlanta Bloom
Rebecca Aronson
2017
Two Worlds Exist
Yehoshua November
Otago University Press
New Zealand
2021
Every now and then I have another child
Diane Brown
2021
Sinking Lessons
Philip Armstrong
2021
The Lifers
Michael Steven
2021
This is your real name
Elizabeth Morton
2020
The Moon in a Bowl of Water
Michael Harlow
2020
To the Occupant
Emma Neale
2012
This City
Jennifer Compton
2011
The Radio Room
Cilla McQueen
2011
Time of the Icebergs
David Eggleton
2010
The Summer King
Joanna Preston
2008
Made for Weather
Kay McKenzie-Cooke
2007
The Joy of a Ming Vase
Ruth Dallas
2007
The word went round
David Howard
Out-Spoken Press
United Kingdom
2023
Apricot
Katie Opray
2023
Cane, Corn & Gully
Satiya Kamaria Kinshasa
2021
Seder
Adam Kammerling
2020
Contains Mild Peril
Fran Lock
2020
Epiphaneia
Richard Georges
Oxford Poets
United Kingdom
2005
Bricks and Ballads
Alison Brackenbury
2005
Crossing the Carpathians
Carmen Bugan
2005
The Night Tree
Jane Draycott
Palimpsest Press
Canada
2025
Ghost Work
Robert Colman
2025
Post-Mortem of the Event
Klara du Plessis
2025
The Siren in the Twelfth House
Victoria Mbabazi
🇨🇦
2024
Soft Inheritance
Fawn Parker
🇨🇦
2023
Nightlight
David Barrick
🇨🇦
2023
Smog Mother
John Wall Barger
2022
Postcripts from a City Burning
Sam Cheuk
2021
Ceaseless Rain
Dorothy Mahoney
2021
Democratically Applied Machine
Robert Colman
2021
Humanimus
David Huebert
2018
Blowing Grass Empire
Mark Lavorato
2018
Control Suppress Delete
Angela Hibbs
2017
Lady Crawford
Julie Cameron Gray
2017
Off-Leash
Dorothy Mahoney
2017
Players
John Nyman
2017
Weathervane
Mark Sampson
2016
Autobiographical Fictions
Maurice Mierau
2016
Kingdom
Elizabeth Ross
2016
Realignment
Ruth Roach Pierson
2016
The Book of Festus
John Wall Barger
2015
As If A Raven
Yvonne Blomer
2015
Easy Fix
Blair Trewartha
2015
Stowaways
Ariel Gordon
2015
Summertime Swamp-Love
Patricia Young
2014
Hard Ass
Sharon McCartney
2014
Sanatorium Songs
Marc di Saverio
2013
Hummingbird
John Wall Barger
2013
Origins
Darryl Whetter
2013
Skinny Dipping
Suzanne Collins
2012
Carapace
Laura Lush
2012
Good Holing Ground
Cynthia Woodman Kerkham
2011
An Open Door in the Landscape
Elisabeth Harvor
2011
Hump
Ariel Gordon
2010
Pain-Proof Men
John Wall Barger
2010
Turning Left to the Ladies
Kate Braid
2008
Bright Scarves of Hours
Diane Tucker
2008
Natural Disasters: Poems
Andrea MacPherson
2004
The Exit Show
Anne F. Walker
Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books
Canada
2025
In the Key of Decay
Em Dial
🇨🇦
2025
Mosf of All the Wanting
Amanda Merpaw
🇨🇦
2025
Precedented Parroting
Barbara Tran
2023
Allodynia
Nisa Malli
🇨🇦
2023
Dream of Me as Water
David Ly
2023
Grappling Hook
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
2022
Danger Flower
Jaclyn Desforges
2021
Hell Light Flesh
Klara du Plessis
2021
Mythical Man
David Ly
2020
A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl
M. Travis Lane
2020
Thicket
Melanie Janisse-Barlow