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.
Utah State University Press
United States
2016
Tender the Maker
Christina Hutchins
2004
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
Suzette Marie Bishop
Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado
United States
2017
Hemming Flames
Patricia C. Murphy
UWA Publishing
Australia
2020
Autobiochemstry
Tricia Dearborn
2018
Fingertip of theTongue
Sarah Rice
2018
The Tiny Museums
Carolyn Abbs
2017
either, Orpheus
Dan Disney
2017
Our Lady of the Fence Post
J. H. Crone
2014
Even in the Dark
Rose Lucas
2014
Six Different Windows
Paul Hetherington
VA-Vision, Inc.
United States
2007
The Dark Side of the Moon
Henrik Pipoyan (Tr.),
Varujan Ughurlyan
Vagabond Press
Australia
2025
Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions
Peter Boyle
2025
Polyp
Ashley Haywood
2025
Raw Salt
Izzy Roberts-Orr
2025
The Maker of Garlands
Poja Mittal Biswas
2025
Three Books
LK Holt
2023
A gamble for my daughter
Luke Fischer
2023
Do you have anything less domestic?
Emilie Collyer
2023
Ideas of Travel
Peter Boyle
2023
One day I will go there
Suzanne Verrall
2023
Running Time
Emily Stewart
2023
Travelling with the stars
Peter Skrzynecki
2023
Waterlines
Peter Ramm
2022
accelerations and inertias
Dan Disney
2022
Bees Do Bother
Ann Vickery
2022
Capacity
LK Holt
2022
Cities
Petra White
2022
Gravidity and Parity
Eleanor Jackson
2022
Notebooks towards a Dreambook of Endings
Peter Boyle
2022
Ordinary People
Takako Lento (Tr.),
Shuntaro Tanikawa
2022
Selected Poems
Takako Lento (Tr.),
Yashurio Yuotsumoto (Tr.),
Kazue Shinkawa
2022
Supervivid Depastoralism
John Kinsella
2022
Theory of Colours
Bella Li
2017
Ghostspeaking
Peter Boyle
2017
Knocks
Emily Stewart
2017
M of December
Luu Dieu Van
2017
O Sonata: Rilke Variations
Chris Edwards
2017
Sunset
Maggie Walsh
2017
The Bloomin/ Notions of Other & Beau
Toby Fitch
2017
Words breathe, creatures of elsewhere
Kaitlin Rees (Tr.),
Nha Thuyen
2015
Axis Book 1: 'Areal'
A. J. Carruthers
2015
Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) M
Lionel G. Fogarty
2015
Suite for Percy Grainger
Jessica L. Wilkinson
2014
Justice
Michael Taren (Tr.),
Tomaz Salamun (Tr.),
Tomaz Salamun
2013
Body Language
Elizabeth Allen
2013
I didn't know what
Jan-Willem Anker
2013
marionette: a biography of miss marion davies
Jessica L. Wilkinson
2013
Mogwie-Idan: Stories of the land
Lion George Fogarty
2013
You Jump to Another Dream
Glenn Stowell (Tr.),
Yan Jun
2002
Bestseller
M. T. C. Cronin
2002
Talking to Neruda's Questions
M. T. C. Cronin
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
2025
Interrobang
Mary Dalton
2025
National Animal
Derek Webster
2025
Talking to Strangers
Rhea Tregebov
2024
Cathedral/Grove
Susan Glickman
2024
Quicker Than The Eye
Joe Fiorito
2024
States of Emergency
Yoyo Comay
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2023
Durable Goods
2023
Wolf Sonnets
R.P. LaRose
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2022
Antonyms for Daughter
Jenny Boychuk
2022
Hallelujah Time
Virginia Konchan
2022
Little Housewolf
Medrie Purdham
2022
Nectarine
Chad Campbell
2022
Words are the Worst
Francis R. Jones (Tr.),
Erik Lindner
2021
Lost Family: A Memoir
John Barton
2021
No Grave For This Place
Donald Winkler (Tr.),
Judy Quinn
2020
The Suicide's Son
James Arthur
2020
Versus
William Vallières
2020
What We Carry
Susan Glickman
2019
Afterwords
Geoffrey Cook (Tr.),
Brecht Goethe
2019
The Hardness of Matter and Water
Donald Winkler (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
Rene Brisebois (Tr.),
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
2022
The Face of the Quartzes
Erín Moure (Tr.),
Chus Pato
2021
(aviary)
Genevieve Kaplan
2021
The Uplands: Book of the Courel and other poems
Erín Moure (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
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