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.
Baobab Press
United States
2020
Reckonings
Ryan Walsh
2018
Line Study of a Motel Clerk
Allison Pitinii Davis
Barrow Street
United States
2023
Frank Dark
Stephen Massimilla
2020
Hold Sway
Sally Ball
2018
Noon until Night
Richard Hoffman
2017
Kingdom Come Radio Show
Joni Wallace
2012
Emblem
Richard Hoffman
2011
Heteropia
Lesley Wheeler
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Canada
2007
Down to Earth
Raymond Souster
2007
Uptown Downtown
Raymond Souster
2007
Wondrous Wobbly World
Raymond Souster
Bauhan Publishing
United States
2025
Auguries & Divinations
Heather Treseler
2018
A Doubtful House
Alice B. Fogel
2018
Louder than Hearts
Zeina Hashem Beck
2018
On the Edge of No Answer
Joal Hetherington
Bay Owl Press/Perera Hussein Publishing House
Sri Lanka
2017
The Widower's Window
Hiran Thabrew
2014
Precarious
Aparna Halpe
Bayeux Arts, Inc.
Canada
2010
Judean Dreams
Brandon Marlon
2009
Landing at Night
Deborah Miller
2009
Poems that Swim from my Brain like Rats leaving a Sinking Ship
Christian McPherson
2009
The Gospel according to Clarence Thomas
Ashis Gupta
Baylor University Press
USA
2024
Desire
Micheal O’Siadhail
2023
Testament
Micheal O’Siadhail
2019
The Five Quintets
Micheal O’Siadhail
Beach Holme Publishing
Canada
2005
Words for Trees
Barbara Folkart
2004
The Alchemy of Happiness
Marilyn Bowering
2002
Iron Mountain
Mark Frutkin
2002
Prime
Miranda Pearson
2002
Purity of Absence
Dave Margoshes
Beach Holme Publishing/Porcepic Books
Canada
2001
All you expect of the road
Sue Nevill
2001
Common Place Ecstasies
Wendy McGRATH
2001
Parable Beach
Paddy McCALLUM
2001
Weather Report
Rhonda Batchelor
2001
What the Small Day Cannot Hold
Beacon Press
United States
2025
Field Guide for Accidents
Albert Abonado
2025
Migration Letters
M. Nzadi Keita
2024
Sweet Movie
Alisha Dietzman
2022
Boomerang/Gumerán
Achy Obejas
2022
Dear Specimen: Poems
W.J. Herbert
2021
An Incomplete List of Names
Michael Torres
2018
For Want of Water
Sasha Pimentel
2017
Scriptorium
Melissa Range
2007
Thirst: Poems
Mary Oliver
2001
Musca Domestica
Christine Hume
Beautiful Outlaw Press
Canada
2025
Vallejo's Marrow
2023
Earish: Thirty Poems of Paul Celan
Robert Kelly (Tr.),
Paul Celan
2023
The Ash Bell
2022
Toward a Blacker Ardour
Bedbug Press/Cloudbank Books
2005
Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body
George Estreich
Beijing United Publishing Co. Ltd.
China
2017
Never Will We Meet Again
Zhu Qinzhe (Tr.),
Feng Weijie
Belladonna*
United States
2019
Landia
Celina Su
2019
Positions of the Sun
Lyn Hejinian
2018
Subsisters: Selected Poems
Sophie Seita (Tr.),
Uljana Wolf
2016
A Swarm of Bees in High Court
Tonya M. Foster