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.
Wolfhound Press
Ireland
2001
Clowns and Acrobats
Seamus Cashman
2001
Wrenboys Carnival
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Canada
2021
Cephalopography 2.0
Rasiqra Revulva
2021
Double Self-Portrait
James Lindsay
2021
Moving to Climate Change Hours
Ross Belot
2021
The Only Card in a Deck of Knives
Lauren Turner
2020
A Very Special Episode
Nathan Dueck
2020
Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene)
Natalee Caple
2020
The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems
Tim Bowling
2020
Treaty#
Armand Garnet Ruffo
2019
Divided
Linda Frank
2019
Listen Before Transmit
Dani Couture
2019
Ten-Headed Alien
David James Brock
2018
Dear Ghost
Catherine Owen
2018
No TV for Woodpeckers
Gary Barwin
2018
The Celery Forest
Catherine Graham
2018
The Wolf is Back
Robert Priest
2018
Voodoo Hypothesis
2017
A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
Stuart Ross
2017
Kids in Triage
Kilby Smith-McGregor
2014
A Nervous City
Chris Pannell
2014
Arguments with the Lake
Tanis Rideout
2014
Enjoy it While It Hurts
JonArno Lawson
2014
Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects
Catherine Graham
2014
Rosa Rosa
Robert Priest
2014
The Civic-Mindedness of Trees
Ken Howe
2013
Archive of the Undressed
Jeanette Lynes
2013
Einstein's Cat
Zoe Landale
2013
Floating Life
Moez Surani
2013
We, Beasts
Oana Avasilichioaei
2012
A Difficult Beauty
David Groulx
2012
Dying a Little
Barry Dempster
2012
Just Like Her
Erín Moure,
Louise Dupré
2012
Local News
Glen Downie
2012
The Islands
Oana Avasilichioaei,
Louise Cotnoir
2012
Woods Wolf Girl
Cornelia Hoogland
2011
Burning House
Richard Lemm
2011
Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems
Hugh Hazelton,
Griselda Garcia
2011
Night Gears
Bren Simmers
2011
Seeing Lessons
Catherine Owen
2011
Turning the Corner at Dusk
Jacquie Buncel
2011
You Know Who You Are
2010
Drive
Chris Pannell
2010
Figuring Ground
Robert Moore
2010
Next to Nothing
Christina McRae
2010
Reticent Bodies
Moez Surani
2010
The New Blue Distance
Jeanette Lynes
2009
Dismantled Secrets
Maxianne Berger
2009
feria: a poempark
Oana Avasilichioaei
2009
I can still draw
Heather Spears
2009
I thought elvis was italian
Domenico Capilongo
2009
Once a Murderer
Zo Landale
2009
Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie
Douglas Burnet Smith
2008
Full Depth:The Raymond Knister Poems
Micheline Maylor
2008
Loyalty Management
Glen Downie
2008
My mother agrees with the dead
Susan Stenson
2008
Selected Portraits
Ron Charach
2008
Turning Mountain
Paul Wilson
2007
Museum Absconditum
Robert Moore
2007
Pink purse girl
Susan Helwig
2007
Primer on the Hereafter
Steve McOrmond
2007
Scoring in injury time
Francis Sparshott
2007
Shall: (ghazals)
Catherine Owen
2007
The fist of remembering
Jim Nason
2006
Abandon
Oana Avasilichioael
2006
Fabulous Freaks
Stan Rogal
2006
Living Will: Shakespeare After Dark
Harold Rhenisch
2006
Seal up the Thunder
Erin Noteboom
2006
Segues
Naomi Beth Wakan
2006
Worthy of his Fall
Richard Harrison
2005
(alive): Selected and New Poems
Rhea Tregebov
2005
Forever the last time
Jim Slominski
2005
Full speed through the morning dark
Matthew Tierney
2005
Labyrinthine
Lesley-Anne Bourne
2005
Lean Days
Steve McOrmond
2005
Turning dirt into jewels
Jean Greenberg
2004
(sub rosa)
Stan Rogal
2004
A Hat to Stop a Train
Sheila Stewart
2004
Criminal Mountains
John O’Neill
2004
Ghost Maps
Erin Noteboom
2004
Learning to see in the dark
Lorraine Janzen
2004
Left Fields
Jeanette Lynes
2003
Desire Lines
Glen Downie
2003
Family Fictions
Elizabeth Rhett Woods
2003
Going to the Eyestone
Deidre Dwyer
2003
Stormthrower
Julia McCarthy
2003
The Violinmaker's Lament
John Weier
2003
The Way Life Should Be
Ken Norris
2002
Breath Takes
Douglas Barbour
2002
Icon Driven
Eric Folsom
2002
Some Bones and a Story
Alice Major
2002
The Strength of Materials
Rhea Tregebov
2002
The Wrecks of Eden
Catherine Owen
2002
Understandign Heaven
Stephen Guppy
2001
From an argument I?ve taken with me
Jim Roberts
2001
The Killed
Douglas Burnet Smith
2001
The Well: New and Selected Poems
Kenneth Sherman
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers/Buckrider Books
Canada
2019
Some of Us and Most of You Are Dead
Peter Norman
2019
We Like Feelings. We Are Serious
Julie McIsaac
2017
Love, Despite the Ache
Chris Pannell
2017
On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood
Richard Harrison
2017
The Description of the World
Johanna Skibsrud
2016
Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems
Jeanette Lynes
2016
Our Inland Sea
James Lindsay
2016
Thrillows & Despairos
Chris Chambers
2016
Unquiet Bones
Peter Midgley
2016
Vesuvius
Hugh Hazelton,
Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares
2016
We Can't Ever Do This Again
Amber McMillan
2015
Everyone is CO2
David James Brock
2015
Invasive Species
Claire Caldwell
2015
Mr. Sapiens
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
2015
The Stag Head Spoke
Erina Harris
WordTech Communications LLC
United States
2005
Ikaros
Constantine Contogenis
2005
The Angle of Sharpest Ascending
Ingrid Wendt
WordTech Communications LLC/Cherry Grove Collections
United States
2017
Into A New Country
Deborah Fleming
WordTech Communications LLC/Custom Words
United States
2007
Halfway Decent Sinners
Michael Cleary
2007
Some Hero of the Past
Greg Kosmicki
WordTech Communications LLC/Turning Point
United States
2009
Telling Time by the Shadows
J. M. FitzGerald
2006
Spring Water
John M. FitzGerald
WordTech Communications LLC/WordTech Editions
United States
2009
Pointing at the Moon
Bill Wunder
2009
Smoke and Strong Whiskey
Robin Chapman
World Poetry Books
United States
2020
Last Dream
Geoffrey Brock,
Giovanni Pascoli
2020
My Muntain Country
Fiona Sze-Lorrain,
Ye Lijun
Write Bloody Publishing
United States
2016
Said the Manic to the Muse
Jeanann Verlee
2015
No Matter the Wreckage
Sarah Kay
Writers Workshop
India
2021
The Idol Walker
Srinjoy Ghosh
2018
The Wanderlust Conspiracy
Siddharth Dasgupta
2013
First Will and Testament
Debashish Lahiri
2010
Seahorse in the Sky
G. Kameshwar
2004
Chiffon Saris
Feroza Jussawalla
Wundor Editions
United Kingdom
2019
Sea of the Edge
Matthew Smith
2018
The Divining Pool
Amanda Merritt
Wydawnictwo Astra
Poland
2010
Slodka woda, slona woda/Sweet Water, Salt Water
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka,
Lidia Kosk