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.
Rockbund Art Museum/Sternberg Press
China
2021
In Short Future Now: On A Post Super Future Asia
Jason Wee
Ronsdale Press
Canada
2025
Nucleus: A Poet's Lyrical Journey from Ukraine to Canada
Svetlana Ischenko
2023
Forget - Sadness - Grass
Antony Di Nardo
2021
Out of the Dark
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
2021
Sick Witch
Crystal Hurdle
2020
Likely Stories
Pamela Porter
2019
Out All Day
John Donlan
2019
Skylight
Antony Di Nardo
2018
Collecting Silence
Ulrike Narwani
2018
Narrow Bridge
Barbara Pelman
2017
Deaf Heaven
Garry Gottfriedson
2017
Defending Darkness
Pamela Porter
2016
Footsteps of the Past
Philip Resnick
2016
The Arrow of Time
Bruce Meyer
2015
Chaos inside thunderstorms
Garry Gottfriedson
2014
A Night for the Lady
Joanne Arnott
2014
Late Moon
Pamela Porter
2013
No Ordinary Place
Pamela Porter
2013
The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems
Nancy Holmes
2012
Beckett Soundings
Inge Israel
2012
Runaway Dreams
Richard Wagamese
2011
Cathedral
Pamela Porter
2011
Skin Like Mine
Garry Gottfriedson
2010
The Dead Can't Dance
Pam Calabrese MacLean
2009
Borrowed Rooms
Barbara Pelman
2009
The Anachronicles
2008
Mother Time: Poems New and Selected
Joanne Arnott
2008
Return to Open Water: Poems New and Selected
Harold Rhenisch
2007
Visible Living: Poems Selected & New
Marya Fiamengo
2007
Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy & Indian Heritage Poems
Garry Gottfriedson
2007
Writing the Tides: New & Selected Poems
Kevin Roberts
2006
Charlatan
Steven Laird
2006
Mandorla
Nancy Holmes
2006
Rilke's Late Poetry
Graham Good (Tr.),
Rainer Maria Rilke
2005
Free Will
Harold Rhenisch
2005
Reckless Women
Cecelia Frey
2004
After Ted & Sylvia
Crystal Hurdle
2004
At the Mercy Seat
Susan McCaslin
2003
The Adultery Poems
Nancy Holmes
2003
The First Day of Winter
Laura Lush
2003
The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in Wake of Red's Death
George Payerle
2001
Cobalt 3
Kevin Roberts
2001
Ghost Children
L. Boraks-Nemetz
Roof Books/Segue Foundation
United States
2024
Bainbridge Island Notebook
Uche Nduka
2013
Apocalypso
Evelyn Reilly
Rootstock Publishing
United States
2022
Lifting Stones
Doug Stanfield
2021
Safe as Lightning
Scudder H. Parker
2021
To the Man in the Red Suit
Christina Fulton
Rose House Publishing
United States
2012
Poems from the Garden of Love: Words of Light & Inspiration
Natalia M. Schotte
Rose Metal Press, Inc.
United States
2009
Tinderbox Lawn
Carol Guess
2008
How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic
Peter Jay Shippy
Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing
Canada
2010
The Hundefr
Kathy Mac
2003
Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth
Kathy Mac
Rufus Books
Canada
2025
Stone Hours
Jeremy Clarke
2008
Alberto Caeiro: The Complete Poems/Poesia Completo
Michael Lee Rattigan (Tr.),
Alberto Caeiro
S. Godage & Brothers (Pvt) Ltd.
Sri Lanka
2024
Daughters of the Dervish
Vasantha Senanayake
2022
Transcending Sita
Vasantha Senanayake
2018
Enigma of a Left-Behinder
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
Sleepless Nights Dreamless Days
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
Tales from Antiquity
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
The Harvest
Jean Arasanayagam
2017
White Lanterns
Thiagaraja Arasanayagam
2017
Word Kite
Jean Arasanayagam
2011
Mind Zones
Jean Arasanayagam
2010
Searching for an Ambalama
Jean Arasanayagam
2010
The Colour of My Mind
Jean Arasanayagam
Saddle Road Press
United States
2025
The Eaters of Flowers
Ire’ne Lara Silva
2017
Blood Sugar Canto
Ire’ne Lara Silva
2017
Five Sextillion Atoms
Jayne Benjulian
Sahitya Akademi
India
2008
A Reluctant Survivor
Sridala Swami
2008
Sight May Strike You Blind
Sampurna Chjattarji
2007
Street on the Hill
Anjum Hasan
Saint Julian Press Inc.
United States
2024
Katy Bridge
David Watts
2024
The Telling, The Listening
Catharine Clark-Sayles
2022
Bone Skid, Bone Beauty
Jane Creighton
2017
Coat Thief
Jeffrey Davis
2016
The Angel & The Heretic
Britt Posmer
2016
Variations on a Theme of Desire
David-Glen Smith
2016
Windward
Kevin McGrath
2015
Numious
Leila A. Fortier
Salina Bookshelf, Inc.
United States
2020
Saad Lá Tah Hózhóón: A Collection of Diné Poetry
Rex Lee Jim (Tr.),
Rex Lee Jim
Salmon Poetry
Ireland
2017
Life in Suspension
Hélène Cardona
2017
Quiet in a Quiet House
Richard W. Halperin
2016
Not Even Laughter
Phillip Crymble
2015
Bend to it
Kevin Simmonds
2015
Commonplace Invasions
Jo Pitkin
2015
Favorite Bedtime Stories
John M. FitzGerald
2015
Nest
Edward Madden
2015
One Hour That Morning and other poems
Lex Runciman
2015
Portal
Mary Pinard
2015
Skip Diving
Aug
2015
The Place Where I Left You
Sandra Ann Winters
2015
The Rain on Cruise's Street
Edward O’Dwyer
2014
Saviours in this Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent van Gogh
Stephanie McKenzie
2012
House of Bees
Stephen Murray
2012
Kentucky Derby
Andrea Cohen
2012
Mad for Meat
Kevin Simmonds
2012
Sailing Lake Mareotis
Eamonn Wall
2012
The Juno Charm
N.
2012
The Mind
John Fitzgerald
2012
Walking Here
Jessie Lendennie
2011
Anniversary
Richard Halperin
2011
Dreams for Breakfast
Susan Millar Dumars
2011
End of American Magic
Christopher Locke
2011
Frightening New Furniture
Kevin Higgins
2011
Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika
John Morgan
2011
Strasbourg
Alan Jude Moore
2011
The Darwin Vampires
Patrick Chapman
2011
The Inner Cities of Gulls
J. P. Dancing Bear
2011
The San Simeon Zebras
C. J. Sage
2011
This London
Patrick Hicks
2010
A Compact of Words
Rob McLennan
2010
Cohort
Philip Fried
2010
Falling Boy
David Cavanagh
2010
Grace Must Wander
Stephanie McKenzie
2010
Heather Island
Joan McBreen
2010
Leaf, Sunlight, Asphalt
Ben Howard
2010
Long Division
Andrea Cohen
2010
Starting from Anywhere
Lex Runciman
2010
The Essential Guide to Flight
Aug
2010
The Follower's Tale
Stephen Roger Powers
2009
Conflicted Light
J. P. Dancing Bear
2009
Finding The Gossamer
Patrick Hicks
2009
Ground Forces
Paul Allen
2009
Tethered to the Earth
Tyler Farrell
2009
Time Gentlemen, Please
Kevin Higgins
2009
Torching the Brown River
Lorna Shaughnessy
2004
The Drowning of the Saints
Paul Perry
2004
The Middleman
David Cavanagh
2004
The Separation of Grey Clouds
Micheal Fanning
2002
airborne
Mark Granier
2002
Asylum Road
Mary O’Malley
2002
Like Joy In Season, Like Sorrow
Mary Dorcey
2002
That Fall: New & Selected Poems
Paul Genega
2002
The Exile House
Erling Friis-Baastad
2002
Tulle
Mary O’Donoghue
2001
Curse of the Birds
Noel Monahan
2001
Iced Water
John Unrau
2001
Little River: New & Selected Poems
Linda McCARRISTON
2001
The Crosses
Eamonn Wall