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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.

Y Llolfa Cyf.

United Kingdom
2014
The Chronicles of Gwynfor Cornetti
Ian Ashton

Yale University Press

United States
2021
The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
Jill Osier
2020
The Year of Blue Water
Yanyi
2016
Blue Yodel
Ansel Elkins
2013 Winner
2013
Slow Lightning
Eduardo Corral
2013
Tales of a Severed Head
Marilyn Hacker, Rachida Madani
2012
Radial Symmetry
Katherine Larson
2011 Shortlisted
2008
Frail-Craft
Jessica Fisher
2007
Green Squall
Jay Hopler
2006
Crush
Richard Siken
2005
The Cuckoo
Peter Streckfus
2003
Discography
Sean Singer
2002
Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
Maurice Manning
2001
Ultima Thule
Davis McCombs

Yash Publications

India
2011
The Unwritten and The Unseen
Murari Madhusudan Thakur, Ganga Prasad Vimal

YesYes Books

United States
2021
Boat Burned
Kelly Grace Thomas
2021
Forever War
Kate Gaskin
2021
Helen Or My Hunger
Gale Marie Thompson
2021
loudest when startled
Lukas Ray Hall
2021
One God at a Time
Meghan Privitello
2021
Salt Body Shimmer
Aricka Foreman
2020
Ceremony of Sand
Rodney Gomez
2020
If The Future Is A Fetish
Sarah Sgro
2020
Stay
Tanya Olson
2020
This, Sisyphus
Brandon Courtney
2020
Ugly Music
Diannely Antigua
2020
Undoll
Tanya Grae
2019
a falling knife has no handle
Emily O’Neill
2019
Good Morning America I Am Hungry and On Fire
Jamie Mortara
2019
Gutter
Lauren Brazeal
2019
Reaper's Milonga
Lucian Mattison
2019
Sons of Achilles
Nabila Lovelace
2018
Landscape with Sex and Violence
Lynn Melnick
2018
What Runs Over
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
2017
Blues Triumphant
Jonterri Gadson
2017
I be, but I ain't
Aziza Barnes
2017
Meet Me Here at Dawn
Sophie Klahr
2017
The Feeder
Jennifer Jackson Berry
2016
A New Language For Falling Out of Love
Meghan Privitello
2016
Love the Stranger
Jay Deshpande
2016
North of Order
Nicholas Gulig
2016
Pelican
Emily O’Neill
2016
some planet
John Mortara
2016
The Anatomist
Taryn Schwilling
2015
[insert] boy
Danez Smith
2015
American Barricade
Danniel Schoonebeek

Yeti Books

India
2006
First Fire
Archna Sahni
2004
Typed with one finger: New and selected poems
Dom Moraes

Yoda Press

India
2019
Mushtaq Hussain's Darbari
Arunava Sinha, Srijato Bandopadhyay
2015
The Fingers Remember
Aditi Rao

Your Scrivener Press

Canada
2015
Upsidoon
Roger Nash
2013
Fancy Clapping
Mark D. Dunn
2012
There are many ways to die while travelling in Peru
Alanna F. Bondar
2011
Welling
Margaret Christakos
2010
Mesopotamia
Bruce Meyer
2008
Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth
Susan Ioannou
2008
Remembering Medusa Remembering
Monique Chenier
2008
Shedding Knowledge
Christopher A. Taylor
2007
Something Blue and Flying Upwards: New & Selected Poems
Roger Nash

Zephyr Press

United States
2021
Breathing Technique
Sibelan Forrester, Marija Knezevic
2021
Floral Mutter
Nick Admussen, Ya Shi
2021
My Village: Poems 1972-2014
John Balcom, Wu Sheng
2021
Night truck driver
Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, Marcin Swietlicki
2020
Paper-Thin Skin
J. Kates, Aigerim Tazhi
2020
To The Ashes
Andrew Wachtel, Anzhelina Polonskaya
2019
Aperture
Karen Kovacik, Jacek Dehnel
2019
Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Caradboard Box
Eleanor Goodman, Lok Fung
2019
First Mountain
Joseph Donahue, Zhang Er, Zang Er
2019
Posts by Tadeusz Dabrowski
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tadeusz Dabrowski
2018
Directions for Use
Steven Teref, Maja Teref, Ana Ristovic
2018
Late Beauty
Lisa Katz, Shahar Bram, Tuvia Ruebner
2018
Oxygen
Bill Johnston, Julia Fiedorczuk
2018
The Roots of Wisdom
2017
Abyss
John Balcom, Ya Hsien
2017
Nine Dragon Island
2017
Not Written Words
Jennifer Feeley, Xi Xi
2016
Hippodrome
Boris Gregoric, Dan Rosenberg, Miklavz Komelj
2016
The Burden of Being Burmese
Ko Ko Thett
2016
Twelve Stations
Bill Johnston, Tomasz Różycki
2016
Zodiac
Anastas Kapurani, Wayne Miller, Moikom Zeqo
2015
Anatomical Theater
Ainsley Morse, Peter Golub, Andrei Sen-Senkov
2015
Canyon of the Body
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Lan Lan
2015
Grass Roots
John Balcom, Xiang Yang
2015
Phoenix
Austin Woerner, Ouyang Jianghe
2015
Salsa
Steve Bradbury, Hsia Yu
2015 Shortlisted 2014 Shortlisted
2014
I Can Almost See The Clouds of Dust
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Yu Xiang
2014
Kopenhaga
Piotr Gwiazda, Grzegorz Wrobkewsi
2014
Paul Klee's Boat
Andrew Wachtel, Anzhelina Polonskaya
2014
Relocations: 3 Contemporary Russian Women Poets
Sibelan Ciepiela, Maria Stepanova Polina Barskova
2013
Doubled Shadlows
Austin Woerner, Ouyang Jianghe
2013
Stone Cell
John Balcom, Lo Fu
2013
Wind Says
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Bai Hua
2012
Approaching You in English
Lisa Katz, Admiel Kosman
2012
Black Square
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tadeusz Dabrowski
2012
The Changing Room
Andrea Lingenfelter, Zhai Yongming
2011
69
Frank L. Vigoda, MLB (Milosz Biedrzycki)
2011
Flash Cards
Wan Ping, Ron Padgett, Yu Jian
2010
Lightwall
Sean Cotter, Liliana Ursu
2010
The Spoonlight Institute
Alan Bernheimer
2009
Door Languages
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, Zafer Senocak
2009
Peregrinary
Bill Johnston, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
2008
Driftwood
John Balcom, Lo Fu
2008
Say Thank You
J. Kates, Mikhail Aizenberg
2008
2007
Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
Peter Filkins, Ingeborg Bachmann

Zephyr Publishing

Canada
2002
Erato
Heidi von Palleske

Ziggurat Books International

France
2011
Confessions of An Empty Purse
Marcus Reichert
2011
The Parallel Body
Dom Gabrielli

zimZalla

United Kingdom
2020
MotherBabyHome
Kimberly Campanello

Zoland Books

United States
2001
Cuban Journal
Joel Sloman
2001
Serenade
Bill Berkson
2001
Sills
Michael O?BRIEN

Zone 3 Press

United States
2012
The Glass Club
Amanda Auchter
2008
City of Regret
Andrew Kozma
2008
Houses Fly Away
Leigh Anne Couch

Zoo Press

United States
2005
Complaint in the Garden
Randall Mann

Zubaan Books

India
2017
Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess
Ravi Shankar, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Andal

Zygote Publishing

Canada
2005
Nunt
Mingus Tourette