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.
Vagabond Voices
United Kingdom
2019
I'm a Pretty Circler
Iain Morrison
2017
Settle
Theresa Munoz
2017
This Far BackEverything Shimmers
Vicki Husband
Vehicule Press/Signal Editions
Canada
2021
Lost Family: A Memoir
John Barton
2021
No Grave For This Place
Donald Winkler,
Judy Quinn
2020
The Suicide's Son
James Arthur
2020
Versus
William Vallières
2020
What We Carry
Susan Glickman
2019
Afterwords
Geoffrey Cook,
Brecht Goethe
2019
The Hardness of Matter and Water
Donald Winkler,
Pierre Nepveu
2018
Siren
Kateri Lanthier
2018
Table Manners
Catriona Wright
2018
The Chemical Life
Jim Johnstone
2017
Based on Actual Events
Robert Moore
2017
Stranger
Nyla Matuk
2016
Installations
David Solway
2016
Leaving the Island
Talya Rubin
2016
Locks & Laws
Chad Campbell
2016
Mockingbird
Derek Webster
2015
Dog Ear
Jim Johnstone
2015
Radio Weather
Shoshanna Wingate
2015
Satisfying Clicking Sound
Jason Guriel
2015
The Scarborough
Michael Lista
2014
Birds Flock Fish School
Edward Carson
2014
Dante's House
Richard Greene
2014
Hooking
Mary Dalton
2014
The Grey Tote
Deena Kara Shaffer
2013
All Souls'
Rhea Tregebov
2013
Sumptuary Laws
Nyla Matuk
2013
The Golden Book of Bovinities
Robert Moore
2013
The Major Verbs
Donald Winkler,
Pierre Nepveu
2013
The Smooth Yarrow
Susan Glickman
2012
Gift Horse
Mark Callanan
2012
Skullduggery
Asa Boxer
2012
Spinning Side Kick
Anita Lahey
2012
The ID Kid
Linda Besner
2011
Circus
Michael Harris
2011
Meridian Line
Judith Cowan,
Paul Bélanger
2011
The Crow's Vow
Susan Briscoe
2011
Where We Might Have Been
Don Coles
2010
Boxing the Compass
Richard Greene
2010
Pure Product
Jason Guriel
2009
36 Cornelian Avenue
Christopher Wiseman
2009
Penny Dreadful
Shannon Stewart
2009
The Empire's Missing Links
Walid Bitar
2008
Mechanical Bird
Asa Boxer
2008
Morning Gothic: New & Selected Poems
George Ellenbogen
2008
OX
Christopher Patton
2008
Sympathy for the Couriers
Peter Richardson
2007
Out to Dry in Cape Breton
Anita Lahey
2007
Reaching for Clear The Poetry of Rhys Savarin
David Solway
2007
Red Ledger
Mary Dalton
2006
How We All Swiftly: the first six books
Don Coles
2006
Standing Wave
Robert Allen
2006
There, There
Patrick Warner
2005
Mirabel
Judith Cowan,
Pierre Nepveu
2005
Postscript
Geoffrey Cook
2005
Running in Prospect Cemetery: New & Selected Poems
Susan Glickman
2004
An ABC of Belly Work
Peter Richardson
2004
Merrybegot
Mary Dalton
2004
Mountain Tea
Peter Van Toorn
2003
Calling Home
Richard Sanger
2003
Fielder's Choice
Elise Partridge
2003
Helix
2002
Araby
Eric Ormsby
2002
Words That Walk in the Night
Lissa Cowan,
Rene Brisebois,
Pierre Morency
2001
Beauties on Mad River
Jan Conn
2001
Saracen Island The Poetry of Andreas Karavis
David Solway
2001
Wind and Root
Brent MacLaine
Veliz Books
United States
2021
(aviary)
Genevieve Kaplan
2021
The Uplands: Book of the Courel and other poems
Erín Moure,
Uxío Novoneyra
2019
History of Gone
Lynn Schmeidler
2018
Once More with Feeling
Tina Cane
2017
Travelers Aid Society
Jeff Sirkin
Verse Chorus Press/The Visible Spectrum
Germany
2021
Paris Notebook
Stephan Delbos,
Tereza Rieddlbauchova
Verse Press
United States
2005
Shortlisted
2005
He Paves The Road With Iron Bars
Caroline Knox
2005
So We Have Been Given Time Or
Sawako Nakayasu
2005
The Book of Funnels
Christian Hawkey
2005
The To Sound
Eric Baus
2005
Your Time Has Come
Joshua Beckman
2004
How Small Brides Survive in Extreme Cold
Steve Shavel
2004
Monkey Time
Philip Nikolayev
2004
Nude Siren
Peter Richards
2003
A Beaker
Caroline Knox
2003
Given
Arielle Greenberg
2003
The Yellow Hotel
Diane Wald
2003
Winter Sex
Katy Lederer
2002
Hat on a Pond
Dara Wier
Verse Press/Wave Books
United States
2006
leadbelly
Tyehimba Jess
2006
Profane Halo
Gillian Conoley
2006
Reverse Rapture
Dara Wier
2006
Water's Leaves & Other Poems
Geoffrey Nutter
Victoria University Press
New Zealand
2020
Conventional Weapons
Tracey Slaughter
2014
Snow White's Coffin
Kate Camp
2014
Us, then
Vincent O’Sullivan
2013
Birds of Clay
Aleksandra Lane
2013
Graft
Helen Heath
2013
Magnificent Moon
Ashleigh Young
2012
The movie may be slightly different
Vincent O’Sullivan
2011
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
Kate Camp
2011
The Victims of Lightning
Bill Manhire
2009
Beauty of the Badlands
Cliff Fell
2009
The End of Atlantic City
David Beach
2009
The Propaganda Poster Girl
Amy Brown
2009
The Rocky Shore
Jenny Bornholdt
2009
The World's Fastest Flower
Charlotte Simmonds
2008
Blame Vermeer
Vincent O’Sullivan
2008
Sol
Andrew Johnston
2008
The Ponies
Bernadette Hall
2007
One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals
Dinah Hawken
2006
Afternoon of an Evening Train
Gregory O’Brien
2006
Beauty Sleep
Kate Camp
2006
Cover Stories
Stephanie de Montalk
2006
Hypnic Jerks
Geoff Cochrane
2006
Lifted
Bill Manhire
2006
Poems 1946-2005
W. H. Oliver
2006
The Violinist in Spring
Anna Smaill
2004
Good Luck
Anna Livesey
2004
Nonsense
Nick Ascroft
2004
Summer
Jenny Bornholdt
2004
The Adulterer's Bible
Cliff Fell
2004
Vanilla Wine
Geoff Cochrane
2002
Lucky Table
Vincent O’Sullivan
2002
Oh There you are Tui! New & Selected Poems
Dinah Hawken
2002
Realia
Kate Camp
Victoria University Press/Perceval Press
New Zealand
2005
matuhi/needle
Hinemoana Baker
2005
Nice morning for it, Adam
Vincent O’Sullivan
2005
the merino princess: selected poems
Bernadette Hall
2005
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt
Tusiata Avia
Virgo Publications
India
2014
Love Invisible
C. P. Rajasekharan
2013
The Mischievous Mind
C. P. Rajasekharan
W. W. Norton & Company
United States
2023
Winner
2017
Winner
2016
Shortlisted
2012
Shortlisted
2003
Shortlisted
2021
Demo
Charlie Smith
2021
Foreign Bodies
Kimiko Hahn
2021
Insomnia
John Kinsella
2021
Seeing the Body
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
2021
So Forth
Rosanna Warren
2021
The Absurd Man
Major Jackson
2020
An American Sunrise
2020
Battle Dress
Karen Skolfield
2020
Feel Free
Nick Laird
2020
Felon
Reginald Dwayne Betts
2020
Hylonda
Tina Chang
2020
Judgment Day
Sandra Gilbert
2020
Pagan Virtues
Stephen Dunn
2020
Swift
David Baker
2020
The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
Gregory Orr
2020
The Low Passions
Anders Carson-Wee
2019
4:30 Movie
Donna Masini
2019
A Memory of the Future
Elizabeth Spires
2019
Because: A Lyric Memoir
Joshua Mensch
2019
Luxury
Philip Schultz
2019
The River in the Sky
Clive James
2019
The Undressing
Li-Young Lee
2019
Wonderland
Matthew Dickman
2018
Double Portrait
Brittany Perham
2018
Earthling
James Longenbach
2018
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
Ahmad Sadri,
Ferdowski
2018
Square Inch Hours
Sherod Santos
2018
Sun in Days
Meghan O’Rourke
2018
The Odyssey
Emily Wilson,
Homer
2017
A Poet's Dublin
Eavan Boland
2017
Against Sunset
Stanley Plumly
2017
Anybody
Ari Banias
2017
Entering History
Mary Steward Hammond
2017
Mortal Trash
Kim Addonizio
2016
Barely Composed
Alice Fulton
2016
Count the Waves
Sandra Beasley
2016
Double Sorrow
Lavinia Greenlaw
2016
In the Flesh
Adam O’Riordan
2016
Insomnia
Linda Pastan
2016
Oracle
Cate Marvin
2016
Roll Deep
Major Jackson
2016
Scavenger Loop
David Baker
2015
A Woman Without a Country
Eavan Boland
2015
Brain Fever
Kimiko Hahn
2015
Divine Nothingness
2015
Hard Love Province
Marilyn Chin
2015
Lines of Defense
Stephen Dunn
2015
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Edith Grossman,
Juana Ines de la Cruz
2015
The Wherewithal
Philip Schultz
2015
The Wilderness
Sandra Lin
2014
Go Giants
Nick Laird
2014
Headwaters: Poems
Ellen Bryant Voigt
2014
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Clive James
2014
River Inside the River
Gregory Orr
2014
The Cineaste
A. Van Jordan
2014
The Divine Comedy
Clive James,
Dante Alighieri
2014
The Fabliaux
Nathaniel E. Dubin,
Unknown
2014
The Late Parade
Adam Fitzgerald
2014
The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard
Dana Goodyear
2013
An Individual History
Michael Collier
2013
Engine Empire
Cathy Park Hong
2013
In Beauty Bright
2013
Mayakovsky's Revolver
Matthew Dickman
2013
Orphan Hours
Stanley Plumly
2013
Pitch
Todd Boss
2013
The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale
William Arrowsmith,
Eugenio Montale
2012
Aftermath
Sandra M. Gilbert
2012
Ghost in a Red Hat
Rosanna Warren
2012
Here and Now
Stephen Dunn
2012
Illuminations
John Ashbery,
Arthur Rimbaud
2012
Once
Meghan O’Rourke
2012
Talking into the Ear of a Donkey
Robert Bly
2012
The Book of Men
Dorianne Laux
2012
The Trouble Ball
Martin Espada
2012
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich
2012
Traveling Light
Linda Pastan
2011
Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise
Julie Sheehan
2011
Holding Company
Major Jackson
2011
I Was The Jukebox
Sandra Beasley
2011
The Iron Key
James Longenbach
2011
Toxic Flora
Kimiko Hahn
2011
Walking Papers
Thomas Lynch
2010
Hovering At A Low Altitude
Chana Bloch,
Chana Kronfeld,
Dahlia Ravikovitch
2009
Behind My Eyes
Li-Young Lee
2009
On Purpose
Nick Laird
2009
Save the Last Dance
2009
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Marie Howe
2009
The Second Blush
Molly Peacock
2009
The Wave-Maker
Elizabeth Spires
2009
Unmentionables
Beth Ann Fennelly
2009
Woman Reading to the Sea
Lisa Williams
2009
Yellowrocket
Todd Boss
2008
Domestic Violence
Eavan Boland
2008
Halflife
Meghan O’Rourke
2008
Messenger
Ellen Bryant Voigt
2008
Old Heart
Stanley Plumly
2008
Quantum Lyrics
A. Van Jordan
2008
Stil to Mow
Maxine Kumin
2008
Telephone Ringing In The Labyrinth
Adrienne Rich
2007
Everything Else In the World
Stephen Dunn
2007
Hoops
Major Jackson
2007
Orient Point
Julie Sheehan
2007
Queen of a Rainy Country
Linda Pastan
2007
The Dirty Side of the Storm
Martha Serpas
2007
The Narrow Road to the Interior
Kimiko Hahn
2007
The Republic of Poetry
Martin Espada
2006
Everything is Burning: Poems
2006
Facts About the Moon: Poems
Dorianne Laux
2006
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
Sherod Santos
2006
Honey and Junk: Poems
Dana Goodyear
2006
Jack & Other New Poems
Maxine Kumin
2006
Midwest Eclogue: Poems
David Baker
2006
Red Shoes: Poems
Honor Moore
2006
The New Arcadia: Poems
John Kinsella
2006
The Return Message: Poems
Tessa Rumsey
2006
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
Genine Kunitz
2005
American Smooth
Rita Dove
2005
Belongings
Sandra M. Gilbert
2005
Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems
Alice Fulton
2005
Figment: Poems
Rebecca Wolff
2005
Macnolia
A. Van Jordan
2005
Tender Hooks
Beth Ann Fennelly
2005
the school among the ruins
Adrienne Rich
2005
Turning to Fiction
Donna Masini
2005
what is this thing called love
Kim Addonizio
2005
Women of America
Charlie Smith
2004
Bringing Together
Maxine Kumin
2004
Departure
Rosanna Warren
2004
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
Marilyn Hacker
2004
Dread
Ai
2004
Local Visitations
Stephen Dunn
2004
Peripheral Light
John Kinsella
2004
The Perishing
Sherod Santos
2003
Cornucopia
Molly Peacock
2003
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
B. H. Fairchild
2003
How We Became Human
2003
Inferno
Michael Palma,
Dante Alighieri
2003
Necessity
Peter Sacks
2003
Now the Green Blade Rises
Elizabeth Spires
2003
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
Marilyn Chin
2003
Shadow of Heaven
Ellen Bryan Voigt
2003
Swan Electric
April Bernard
2003
The Artist's Daughter
Kimiko Hahn
2003
The Last Uncle
Linda Pastan
2002
Against Love Poetry
Eavan Boland
2002
Climbing Back
Dionisio Martinez
2002
Felt
Alice Fulton
2002
Fox: Poems 1998-2000
Adrienne Rich
2002
Landscape with Chainsaw
James Lasdun
2002
Miracle Fair: Selected Peoms of Wislana Szymborska
Joanna Trzeciak,
Polish
2002
Rooms Are Never Finished
Agha Shahid Ali
2002
The Long Marriage
Maxine Kumin
2001
A Map to the Next World
2001
Last Blue
2001
Selected Pems and Prose of Paul Celan
Wake Forest University Press
United States
2021
The Candlelight Master
2021
The Mother House
2021
The Rain Barrel
Frank Ormsby
2020
Herod's Dispensations
Harry Clifton
2019
Live Streaming
Conor O’Callaghan
2018
The Darkness of Snow
Frank Ormesby
2018
The President of Planet Earth
David Wheatley
2016
From Elsewhere
Ciaran Carson
2016
Geis
Catriona O’Reilly
2016
The Boys of Bluehill
N.
2014
The Sun King
Conor O’Callaghan
2013
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Harry Clifton
2012
A Hundred Doors
2011
Until Before After
Ciaran Carson
2009
For All We Know
Ciaran Carson
2005
The Book of the Angel
Medbh McGuckian
2004
Breaking News
Ciaran Carson