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.
Saturnalia Books
United States
2022
Shortlisted
2021
All the Gay Saints
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
2020
Colonize Me
Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
2019
For Hunger
Margaret Ronda
2019
I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean
Shayla Lawson
2019
Live at the Bitter End
Ed Pavlic
2018
Sweet Insurgent
Elyse Fenton
2018
Telepathologies
Cortney Lamar Charleston
2018
The New Nudity
Hadara Bar-Nadav
2017
The Tornado is the World
Catherine Pierce
2016
Steal It Back
Sandra Simonds
2013
Arco Iris
Sarah Vap
2013
My Scarlet Ways
Tanya Larkin
2013
The Girls of Peculiar
Catherine Pierce
Schaffner Press
United States
2016
Interval: Poems based on Bach's Goldberg Variations
Alice B. Fogel
Seraphim Editions
Canada
2018
Till I Caught Myself
Ruth Roach Pierson
2017
Ontology of Blue
David Bellusci
2017
Primal Testament
Ian Lancashire
2016
Earth Day in Leith Churchyard - Poems in Search of Tom Thomson
Bernadette Rule
2014
Tether
Laurelyn Whitt
2013
Elseworlds
Nina Berkhout
2010
Confluences
Allan Briesmaster
2008
Lifting the Stone
Susan McCaslin
2008
The Angel Notebook
Luciano Iacobelli
2008
The Cabbage of Paradise - The Merzbook and Other Poems
Colin Morton
2007
Surviving the Censor - The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam
Rafi Aaron
2007
Travelling Light
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
2006
Frames of Silence
Allan Brown
2005
Blue Angels
Stephen Humphrey
2005
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
Andrea Jarmai
2005
In Search of the Emerald City
Stan Rogal
2003
A Tunisian Notebook
2003
Under Old Stars
Chris Pannell
Seren Books
United Kingdom
2021
Blood Rain
André Mangeot
2021
The Estate Agent's Daughter
Rhian Edwards
2021
The Machineries of Joy
Petr Finch
2021
The Shaking City
Cath Drake
2021
We Could Be Anywhere By Now
Katherine Stansfield
2021
Wild Persistence
Katrina Kaomi
2020
Afternoons go Nowhere
Sheewagh Pugh
2020
Docklands: A Ghost Story
Damian Walford Davies
2020
Erato
Deryn Rees-Jones
2020
Pigeon Songs
Eoghan Walls
2020
The Bramble King
Catherine Fisher
2015
Fauverie
Pascale Petit
2015
Imagined Sons
Carrie Etter
2015
Midnight, Dhaka
Mir Mahfuz Ali
2015
Playing House
Katherine Stansfield
2011
De Chirico's Threads
Carol Rumens
2011
Inroads
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
2011
What The Water Gave Me
Pascale Petit
2011
You
John Haynes
2005
Quiver
Deryn Rees-Jones
2005
Selected and New Poems
John Powell Ward
2005
Selected Poems
Christine Evans
2005
The Mirror Trade
Zoe Skoulding
2005
The Never-Never
Kathryn Gray
2003
Marble Sky
Vuyelwa Carlin
2003
The Beautiful Lie
Sheenagh Pugh
2003
the slipped leash
Paul Henry
2003
the witch bag
Sarah Corbett
2003
travelling to the fish orchards
Robert Seatter
2003
wowsers
Paul Groves
2002
Folding the Real
Fiona Sampson
2002
Food
Peter Finch
2002
Heaven's Gate
Tony Curtis
2002
Rockclimbing in Silk
Samantha Wynne Rhydderch
2002
The Bed of Memory
Jean Earle
2002
The Zoo Father
Pascale Petit
2001
The Blue Book
Owen Sheers
2001
The Welsh Book of the Dead
Douglas Houston
2001
Wild Blue
Frances Williams
Serengeti Press
Canada
2011
The Infinite Ache
R. W. Megens
2009
In the Shadow of the Sun
Carol Ramsden Deckert
Settlement House Books
United States
2015
Flowering Fires
Gail Wronsky,
Alicia Partnoy
2014
The Carnival, The Life
David Allan Evans
2014
Who Touches Everything
Peter Waldor
Seven Towers
Ireland
2011
And Suddenly the Sun Again
Eamonn Lynskey
2011
Huncke
Rick Mullin
2011
Prism
Alma Brayden
2010
Old Men Forget
Doog Wood
2010
The Bell
Ray Pospisil
2009
The Origami Crow, Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002
Eamon Carr
2007
The Gentle Art of Rotting
Ross Hattaway