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.
The Mercury Press
Canada
2012
The Port's Seasonal Rental
Gerry Shikatani
2009
Between You and Me
Lesley McAllister
2009
Zong!
M. NourbeSe Philip
2007
Avatar
Sharon Harris
2006
Only This Blue
Betsy Warland
2005
Masque
Rachel Zolf
2005
Site-Specific Poems
Lola Lemire Tostevin
2002
Surrender
Roy Miki
The New York Quarterly Foundation Inc.
United States
2018
Fifteen Stones
Craig Czury
2018
Not Elegy, But Eros
Nausheen Eusuf
The Overlook Press
United States
2003
A Burning Interior
David Shapiro
2003
Starting from Sleep
Charles Martin
2003
The Traveler's Calendar
Daniel Mark Epstein
2003
Top of My Lungs
Natalie Goldberg
The Poetry Society of India
India
2016
Sentinel
Vinod Khanna
2015
Lamp Post
Vinod Khanna
2014
Enchanting Flute
Yayati Madan G. Gandhi
The Porcupine’s Quill
Canada
2021
The Blue Moth of Morning
P. C. Vandall
2019
Fluke Print
Jeffery Donaldson
2019
Mrs. Romanov
Lori Cayer
2018
Dysphoria
Shane Neilson
2017
The Bird in the Stillness
Joe Rosenblatt
2017
The Exile's Papers: Part Four (Just Beneath Your Skin, the Dark Begins)
Wayne Clifford
2016
A Serious Call
Don Coles
2016
On Shaving Off His Face
Shane Neilson
2015
The Seasons
Bruce Meyer
2014
Slack Action
Jeffery Donaldson
2014
The April Poems
Leon Rooke
2013
The Exile's Papers, Part Three
Wayne Clifford
2013
Wayworn Wooden Floors
Mark Lavorato
2012
Dancing, with Mirrors
George Amabile
2012
Surpassing Pleasure
John Slater
2011
Casanova in Venice
Kildare Dobbs
2011
Complete Physical
Shane Neilson
2010
Slant Room
Michael Eden Reynolds
2010
The Exile's Papers, Part Two
Wayne Clifford
2009
Taking Shape
Edward Carson
2008
Black River
Kenneth Sherman
2008
The Exile's Papers
Wayne Clifford
2007
Black Velvet Elvis
J. D. Black
2007
Hand Luggage
2007
The Book of Were
Wayne Clifford
2006
Bastardi Puri
Walid Bitar
2006
He Claims He is the Direct Heir
Lazar Sarna
2006
Hot Poppies
Leon Rooke
2006
In John Updike's Room
Christopher Wiseman
2005
Always Now, Volume Two
2005
Intimations of a Realm in Jeopardy
Norm Sibum
2005
On Abducting the 'Cello
Wayne Clifford
2004
A Day's Grace
Robyn Sarah
2004
Always Now
2004
So Dance The Lords of Language
Marius Kociejowski
2003
Girls and Handsome Dogs
Norm Sibum
2002
Dove Legend
Richard Outram
2002
The Lover's Progress
David Solway
2001
Kurgan
Don Coles
The Sheep Meadow Press
United States
2014
Forty Days in the Calypso Saloon & Frescoes with Graffiti
Christopher Middleton
2010
Transmigration
Joy Ladin
2009
The Bag of Broken Glass
Yerra Sugarman
The St. Thomas Poetry Series
Canada
2016
Mystic Playground
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
2015
The Disarmed Heart
Susan McCaslin
The Sufi Press
Canada
2014
Record of Days
Sharon Marcus
2012
The Sound of Darkness
Sharon Marcus
2010
Nonexistent Poems & Songs of Love
Sharon Marcus
The Ultimate Book, Inc.
2001
The Holy Quran
Fazlollah Nikayin
The Waywiser Press
United States
2020
Any Keep or Contour
Audrey Bohanan
2020
My German Dictionary
Katherine Hollander
2019
Articulate as Rain
Stephen Kampa
2019
Blue Rooms
Morri Creech
2019
The Youngest Ocean
Christopher Cessac
2018
Addendum to a Miracle
Mike White
2017
Odd Evening
Eric McHenry
2017
Stone Fruit
Stephen Yenser
2016
Shakespeare's Horse
Joseph Harrison
2016
The Gardening Fires: Sonnets and Fragments
Jerome Luc Martin
2015
Already the Flames
Clive Watkins
2015
Bachelor Pad
Stephen Kampa
2015
Voices Bright Flats
Geoffrey Brock
2015
Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time
Penelope Pelizzon
2014
This Time Tomorrow
Matthew Thorburn