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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.

Tutle Moons Press

Canada
2010
Memoirs of a Praying Mantis
Bianca Lakoseljac

Twisted Spoon Press

Czech Republic
2003
Dancing Embers
Paul Sohar, Sandor Kanyadi
2002
A Ballad for Metka Krasovec
Michael Biggins, Tomaz Salamun

Two Sylvias Press

United States
2020
All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts
Dana Roeser

Uccelli Press

United States
2005
Country of Memory
Charles Fishman

Ugly Duckling Presse

United States
2020
Story
Jennifer Firestone
2020
Syncope
Asiya Wadud
2020
Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
Anna Gurton-Wachter
2019
Dear Angel of Death
Simone White
2018
Lowly
Alan Felsenthal
2018
Sans
G. L. Ford
2018
The Happy End/All Welcome
Monica de la Torre

uHlanga New Poets

South Africa
2016
Failing Maths and my Other Crimes
Thabo Jijana
2016
Matric Rage
Genna Gardini

UKZN Press

South Africa
2009
New Country
Mxolisi Nyezwa
2009
Tongues of Their Mothers
Makhosazana Xaba

Undead Poets Press

2001
A Different Shred of Skin
T. Anders Carson

University of Akron Press

United States
2020
Hawk Parable
Tyler Mills
2020
Quite Apart
Krystal Languell
2020
The Boy in the Labyrinth
Oliver de la Paz
2020
The Soft Path
Joshua Harmon
2018
The Books of Endings
Leslie Harrison
2017
Groundspeed
Emilia Phillips
2017
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philip Metres
2008
Big Muddy River of Stars
Alison Pelegrin
2008
Half Mask
Roger Mitchell
2008
Spoken among the Trees
Jeff B. Gundy
2007
How We Spent Our Time
Vern Rutsala
2007
Lingo
Clare Rossini
2007
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Ashley Capps
2007
The Book of Accident
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
2006
Fire Wheel
Sharmila Voorakkara

University of Alaska Press

United States
2015
River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir
John Morgan

University of Alberta Press

Canada
2021
Fields of Light and Stone
Angeline Schellenberg
2021
Ghosts Still Linger
Kat Cameron
2021
I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin
Valerie Mason-John
2021
To float, to drown, to close up to open
E. Alex Pierce
2020
There Are Not Enough Sad Songs
Marita Dachsel
2019
Rain Shadow
Nicholas Bradley
2019
Songs for Dead Children
E. D. Blodgett
2019
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Alice Major
2018
Believing is not the same as Being Saved
Lisa Martin
2018
Listen. If
Douglas Barbour
2018
Little Wildheart
Micheline Maylor
2017
100 Days
Juliane Okot Bitek
2017
Sleeping in Tall Grass
Richard Therrien
2015
A Most Beautiful Deception
Melissa Morelli Lacroix
2015
abecedarium
Dennis Cooley
2015
as if
E. D. Blodgett
2015
Small Things Left Behind
Ella Zeltserman
2014
At the limit of breath: Poems on the films of Juan-Luc Godard
Stephen Scobie
2014
Massacre Street
Paul Zits
2014
The Last Temptation of Bond
Kimmy Beach
2013
dear Hermes?
Michelle Smith
2013
Wells
Jenna Butler
2012
Apostrophes VII
E. D. Blodgett
2012
Demeter Goes Skydiving
Susan McCaslin
2012
Kat Among the Tigers
Kath MacLean
2011
Memory's Daughter
Alice Major
2011
Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait
Robert Kroetsch
2011
wild horses
Rob McLennan
2009
The Office Tower Tales
Alice Major
2007
the bentleys
Dennis Cooley
2007
The Occupied World
Alice Major
2006
Elegy
E. D. Blodgett
2005
Apostrophes VI: open the grass
E. D. Blodgett
2005
The Snowbird Poems
Robert Kroetsch
2004
An Ark of Koans
E. D. Blodgett
2004
Haiku in Papiamentu
Helene Garrett, Elis Juliana
2002
A Map of the Island
Nigel Darbasie
2002
The Hornbooks of Rita K
Robert Kroetsch

University of Arizona Press

United States
2021
Horsefly Dress
Heather Cahoon
2021
Our Bearings
Molly McGlennen
2020
Aurum
Santee Frazier
2019
Instruments of the True Measure
Laura Da’
2016
Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisf
Urayo Noel
2016
Canto Hondo/Deep Song
Alarc
2016
Tributaries
Laura Da’
2016
Twelve Clocks
Julie Sophia Paegle
2014
Milk and Filth
Carmen Gimenez Smith
2012
Doubters and Dreamers
Janice Gould
2012
Empire
Xochiquetal Candelaria
2011
torch song tango choir
Julie Sophia Paegle
2004
A Rush of Hands
Juan Delgado
2002
In An Angry Season
Lisa Chavez
2002
Markings on Earth
Karenne Wood
2002
Palm Crows
Virgil Suarez
2001
From Sand Creek
Simon J. Ortiz
2001
Rainbows of Stone
Ralph Salisbury
2001
The island of lost luggage
Janet McADAMS
2001
Thunderweavers
Juan Filipe Herrara
2001
Turtle Pictures
Ray Gonzalez
2001
When Living Was A Labor Camp
Diana Garcia

University of Arkansas Press

United States
2021
Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)
Judy Halebsky
2019
Narcissus Americana
Travis Mossotti
2019
Our Earliest Tattoos
Peter Twal
2018
Mr. Stevens' Secretary
Frances Schenkkan
2018
Protection Spell
Jennifer Givham
2018
Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror
Stephen Gibson
2018
the magic my body becomes
Jess Rizkallah
2018
The Wild Night Dress
Laura McCullough
2017
[explicit lyrics]
Andrew Gent
2017
Cenotaph
Brock Jones
2017
See You Soon
Laura McKee
2017
When We Were Birds
Joe Wilkins
2016
Reveille: Pems
George David Clark
2015
Afternoon Masala: Poems
Vandana Khanna
2015
Day of the Border Guards: Poems
Katherine E. Young
2015
Ghost Gear: Poems
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
2015
To the Bramble and the Briar: Poems
Steve Scafidi
2014
Chord Box
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
2014
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths
Sholeh Wolpe
2014
Praise Nothing
Joshua Robbins
2014
The Law of Falling Bodies
Elton Glaser
2013
In Broken Latin: Poems
Annette Spaulding-Convy
2013
Rousing the Machinery: Poems
Catherine MacDonald
2013
The Coal Life: Poems
Adam Vines
2013
The Empty Loom: Poems
Robert Gibb
2012
Lovely Asunder
Danielle Cadena Deulen
2012
Paradise
Stephen Gibson
2010
A Sunday in God-Years: Poems
Michelle Boisseau
2010
Start With The Trouble: Poems
Daniel Donaghy
2010
Weapons Grade: Poems
Terese Svoboda
2009
A Necklace of Bees
Dannye Romine Powell
2009
Now You're the Enemy
James Allen Hall
2009
Rift
Barbara Helfgott Hyett
2009
The Fire Landscape: Poems
Gary Fincke
2008
Figured Dark
Greg Rappleye
2008
Outlaw Style
R. T. Smith
2008
Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
Wolp
2008
World over Water
Robert Gibb
2006
Becoming Bone
Annie Boutelle
2006
Here and Hereafter
Elton Glaser
2006
King Vulture
K. E. Duffin
2006
Standing around the Heart
Gary Fincke
2005
August Evening with Trumpet: Poems
Harry Humes
2005
Candlefish: Poems
Elizabeth Biller Chapman
2005
Chattahoochee: Poems
Patrick Phillips
2005
The Burning World: Poems
Robert Gibb
2004
Trembling Air
Michelle Boisseau
2002
Changeable Thunder: Poems
David Baker
2002
Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
Enid Shomer
2002
The Throats of Narcissus
Bruce Bond
2001
Geography of the Forehead
Ron Koertge

University of Auckland

New Zealand
2012
Briefcase
John Adams
2012
Kingdom Animalia
Janis Freegard
2012
Shift
Rhian Gallagher
2012
Thicket
Anna Jackson

University of Calgary Press

Canada
2021
Long Division
Gil McElroy
2021
Phillis
Alison Clarke
2021
The Manhattan Project
Ken Hunt
2020
Air Salt
Ian Kinney
2020
Dendrite Balconies
Sean Braune
2019
Quarry
Tanis Franco
2019
The High Line Scavenger Hunt
Lucas Crawford
2019
Visible Cities
Kathleen Wall
2018
Fail Safe
Nikki Sheppy
2008
Death Drive Through Gaia Paris
Charles Noble
2004
Doubt's Boots: Even Doubt's Shadow
Charles Noble

University of California Press

United States
2012
Metropole
Geoffrey O’Brien
2012
2011
R's Boat
Lisa Robertson
2011
Writing the Silences
Richard O. Moore
2009
2009
rimertown/an atlas: poem
Laura Walker
2008
A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Krakow to Buchenwald and Beyond
Arie A. Galles, Warren Niesluchowski, Henia Karmel, Ilona Karmel
2008
Green and Gray
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
2008 Winner
2008
The Age of Huts (compleat)
Ron Silliman
2008 Shortlisted
2007
I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2007
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems
Clare You, Richard Silberg, Ko Un
2007
The Totality for Kids
Joshua Clover
2007
The Wilds
Mark Levine
2006
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
Juliana Spahr
2005
Facts for Visitors
2005
Not Even Then
Brian Blanchfield
2005
The Seventy Prepositions
Carol Snow
2004
A Carnage in the Lovetrees: Poems
Richard Greenfield
2004
Gone: Poems
2004
The Flower of Anarchy
Meir Wieseltier, Shirley Kaufman, Meir Wieseltier
2004
Why/why not
Martha Ronk
2001
Enola Gay
Mark Levine
2001 Shortlisted

University of Chicago Distribution Center

2001
Cairo Traffic
Lloyd Schwartz
2001
The Dead Alive and Busy

University of Chicago Press

United States
2021
Two Menus
Rachel DeWoskin
2020
Against Translation
2020
Bitter English
Ahmad Almallah
2020
The Bower
Connie Voisine
2020
The War Makes Everyone Lonely
Graham Barnhart
2019
Fort Necessity
David Gewanter
2019
Losers Dream On
Mark Halliday
2019
My Bishop and Other Poems
Michael Collier
2019
Near/Miss
Charles Bernstein
2019
Spill
Bruce Smith
2018
Children with Enemies
Stuart Dischell
2018
Diary of Our Fatal Illness
Charles Bardes
2018
Little Kisses
Lloyd Schwarz
2018
Unlikely Designs
Katie Willingham
2017
Forbidden City
Gail Mazur
2017
Last Lake
Reginald Gibbons
2017
Life Pig
2017
That Kind of Happy
Maggie Dietz
2016
Anyone
Nate Klug
2016
Calle Florista
Connie Voisine
2016
Clayfeld Holds On
Robert Pack
2016
Disorder
Vanesha Pravin
2016
Ozone Journal
Peter Balakian
2015
Particle and Wave
Benjamin Landry
2015
Reel to Reel
2015
Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud
Killarney Clary
2015
To Forget Venice
Peg Boyers
2014
El Dorado
Peter Campion
2014
Recalculating
Charles Bernstein
2014
The Accounts
Katie Peterson
2014
The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish
Joshua Weiner
2014
Theme of Farewell and After-Poems
Susan Stewart, Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Milo de Angelis
2014
Thresherphobe
Mark Halliday
2013
Bewilderment
David Ferry
2013
Disposable Camera
Janet Foxman
2013
Raptor
Andrew Feld
2013
Troy, Unincorporated
Francesca Abbate
2012
Contradance
John Peck
2012
Counter-Amores
Jennifer Clarvoe
2012
Devotions
Bruce Smith
2012
Figures in a Landscape
Gail Mazur
2012
Laughter Before Sleep
Robert Pack
2011
Love Poems by Pedro Salinas: My Voice Because of You & Letter Poems to Katherine
Willis Barnstone, Pedro Salinas
2011
Medicine Show
Tom Yuill
2011
Romey's Order
Atsuro Riley
2011
Slow Trains Overhead
Reginald Gibbons
2011
The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the "Rime"
Jane Tylus, Gaspara Stampa
2011
Tourist in Hell
Eleanor Wilner
2011
Ziggurat
Peter Balakian
2010
An Algebra
Don Bogen
2010
Breakfast with Thom Gunn
Randall Mann
2010
Hollywood & God
Robert Polito
2010
Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega
John Dent-Young, Garcilaso de la Vega
2010
Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
Christopher Johnson, Francisco de Quevedo
2010
The Lions
Peter Campion
2010
War Bird
David Gewanter
2010
Watch
Greg Miller
2009
Chameleon Hours
Elise Partridge
2009
Madwomen
Randall Couch, Gabriela Mistral
2009
Red Rover
Susan Stewart
2008
Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems
Marilyn Hacker, Guy Goffette
2008
Draft of a Letter
James Longenbach
2008
Honey with Tobacco
Peg Boyers
2008
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto
Patrick Baron, Andrea Zanzotto
2008
Under Sleep
Daniel Hall
2007
Blue Guide
Stephen Yenser
2007
From the Book of Giants
Joshua Weiner
2007
Girly Man
Charles Bernstein
2007
Perennial Fall
Maggie Dietz
2007
The Executive Director of the Fallen World
Liam Rector
2007
The Selected Poetry & Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition
Marcus Perryman, Peter Robinson, Vittorio Sereni
2006
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition
William Baer, Luis de Camoes
2005
Elk in Winter
Robert Pack
2005
Leaving the Narrow Place
Laton Carter
2005
The Displaced of Capital
Anne Winters
2005
The Man Who Sleeps in my Office
Jason Sommer
2005
The Next Bend in the Road
Michael Fried
2005
The Pattern More Complicated: New & Selected Poems
Alan Williamson
2003
North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen
Roger Greenwald, Rolf Jacobsen
2001
The Other Lover
Bruce Smith

University of Chicago Press/Phoenix Poets Series

United States
2006
Classic Rough News
Kenneth Fields
2006
Human Love
Doreen Gildroy
2006
Other People
Peter Campion
2006
Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994-2001
John Peck
2006
Songs for Two Voices
Bruce Smith
2006
Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems
Gail Mazur
2004
Columbarium
Susan Stewart
2004
Fleet River
James Longenbach
2004
Potential Stranger
Killarney Clary
2004
Spiritual Sonnets
Melanie E. Gregg, Gabrielle de Coignard
2004
Swoon
Victoria Redel
2004
The Sleep of Reason
David Gewanter

University of Evansville Press

United States
2020
3 Nights of the Perseids
Ned Balbo