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.
Ashland Poetry Press
United States
2021
The Museum of Small Bones
Miho Nonaka
2017
Life As It
Daneen Wardrop
2015
American Psalm World Psalm
Nicholas Samaras
2015
Out of Place
Richard Jackson
2015
Tancho
J. David Cummings
2014
Coney Island Pilgrims
John Hennessy
2014
Luminous Other
Robin Davidson
2014
The Rattling Window
Catherine Staples
2013
The Rigid Body
Gabriel Spera
2012
Traction
Mary Makofske
2010
Light Thickens
Elizabeth Biller Chapman
2010
Vengeful Hymns
Marc J. Sheeehan
2005
Gatherings
Jerry Harp
2005
The Housing
A. V. Christie
2005
The Moment's Equation
Vern Rutsala
Astra Publishing House
USA
2023
Broken Halves of a Milky Sun
Aaiun Nin
2022
Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
Fiona Sze-Lorrain,
Yu Xiuhua
At Bay Press
Canada
2023
Love Hurries This
Hamish Guthrie
2023
Pistachios in my Pocket
Sareh Farmand
2022
Gibbous Moon
Dennis Cooley
2022
Miraculous Sickness
ky perraun
2021
The Muse Sings
Dennis Cooley
2021
TreeTalk
Ariel Gordon
2021
Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy
Christian McPherson
2020
What Fox Knew
Mary Barnes
Athabasca University Press
Canada
2012
Praha
E. D. Blodgett
2012
The Kindness Colder Than the Elements
Charles Noble
2011
Dreamwork
Jonathan Locke Hart
2009
Poems for a Small Park
E. D. Blodgett
AU Press (Athabasca University)
Canada
2013
kiy
Naomi McIlwraith
2013
The Metabolism of Desire: The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
David R. Slavitt,
Guido Cavalcanti
Auckland University Press
New Zealand
2022
I Am in Bed with You
Emma Barnes
2022
The Sea Walks into a Wall
Anne Kennedy
2018
Tightrope
Selina Tusitala Marsh
2018
Vanishing Points
Michele Leggott
2015
Heartland
Michele Leggott
2015
I, Clodia, and Other Portraits
Anna Jackson
2014
Dark Sparring
Selina Tusitala Marsh
2014
The Blue Coat
Elizabeth Smither
2014
The Lifeguard
Ian Wedde
2014
The Yellow Buoy
C. K. Stead
2013
At the White Coast
Janet Charman
2013
Beauties of the Otagonal Pool
Gregory O’Brien
2013
From M?noa to a Ponsonby Garden
Albert Wendt
2013
The Darling North
Anne Kennedy
2011
Dear Sweet Harry
Lynn Jenner
2011
Slip Stream
Paula Green
2011
Tigers at Awitu
Sarah Broom
2011
Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From
Murray Edmond
2010
Aloe and Other Poems
Diana Bridge
2010
Fast Talking PI
Selina Tusitala Marsh
2010
Good Business
Jan Wedde
2010
Mirabile Dictu
Michele Leggott
2010
The Blind Singer
Chris Price
2010
The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap
Michael Harlow
2010
Walking to Africa
Jessica Le Bas
2009
Calypso
Bob Orr
2009
Everything Talks
Sam Sampson
2009
get some
Sonja Yelich
2009
In Continents
Richard Reeve
2009
The Lakes of Mars
Chris Orsman
2008
Cold Snack
Janet Charman
2008
Geography for the Lost
Kapka Kassabova
2008
Incognito
Jessica Le Bas
2008
Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins
Paula Green
2008
The Black River
C. K. Stead
2008
The Pop-Up Book of Invasions
Fiona Farrell
2008
The Year of Adverbs
Elizabeth Smither
2008
Villon in Millerton
James Norcliffe
2007
Dead Reckoning
Michael Jackson
2007
Fast Talker
David Eggleton
2007
The Gas Leak
Anna Jackson
2006
Cassandra's Daughter
Michael Harlow
2006
Milk and Honey
Michele Leggott
2006
Red Leaves
Diana Bridge
2006
The Devil in My Shoes
Phil Kawana
2006
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty
Ian Wedde
2006
Time of the Giants
Anne Kennedy
2006
Voice Carried My Family
Robert Sullivan
2005
Clung
Sonja Yelich
2005
Crosswind
Paula Green
2005
Fool Moon
Murray Edmond
2005
The Life and The Dark - BOOKS BEING SHIPPED SEPARATELY, publisher forwarded wrong entry
Richard Reeve
2005
The Red Tram
C. K. Stead
2005
Wild
Anne French
2004
catullus for children
Anna Jackson
2004
lazy wind poems
Graham Lindsay
2004
Love in a Bookstore or your Money Back
Sarah Quigley
2004
People With Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes
John Dolan
2004
Sing-Song
Anne Kennedy
2003
Captain Cook in the Underworld
Robert Sullivan
2003
Dog
C. K. Stead
2003
Husk
Chris Price
2003
Snowing Down South
Janet Charman
2003
The Book of the Black Star
Albert Wendt
2003
Valparaiso
Bob Orr
2002
Porcelain
Diana Bridge
2002
The Commonplace Odes
Ian Wedde
2002
The Pastoral Kitchen
Anna Jackson
2001
Chrome
Paula Green
2001
Laminations
Murray Edmond
2001
The Long Road to Teatime
Anna Jackson
Augury Books
United States
2022
In the Night Field
Cameron McGill
2022
Who's Your Daddy
Arisa White
2017
You're The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
Arisa White
2016
American Gramophone
Carey McHugh
2015
Beast
Frances Justine Post
2014
Mantic
Maureen Alsop
2014
Soldier Quick with Rain
David Joel Friedman
Ausable Press
United States
2009
Alpha Zulu
Gary Lilley
2009
Amorisco
2009
Made Flesh
Craig Arnold
2009
Property
Julie Agoos
2009
The Skeleton of the Crow
Seido Ray Ronci
2008
A New Hunger
Laure-anne Bosselaar
2008
Lilies Without
Laura Kasischke
2008
Mine
Tung-Hui Hu
2008
Slow Fire
Pamela Alexander
2007
Declension in the Village of Chung Luong
Bruce Weigl
2007
Journey to the Lost City
Jonathan Aaron
2007
Mi Revalueshanary Fren
Linton Kwesi Johnson
2007
The Elephan'ts Child: New & Selected Poems
Steve Orlen
2006
Ladder of Hours
Keith Althaus
2006
Reliquaries
Eric Pankey
2006
Salt Water Amnesia
Jeffrey Skinner
2005
Gardening in the Dark
Laura Kasischke
2005
Interglacial
James Richardson
2005
The Ardors
Kathleen Peirce
2004
Oracle Figures
Eric Pankey
2004
Zodiac of Echoes
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
United Kingdom
2016
As I See It - A Poetry Collection
Ranjith Embuldeniya