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.
Bess Press
United States
2012
Significant Moments in da Life or Oriental Faddah and Son
Lee A. Tonouchi
Bethelstone
2006
Weeping Shadows
Rex Emmanuel Odoemenam
BeWrite Books
United Kingdom
2009
from the field book
Carol Thistlethwaite
2009
The Jealousies
Benjamin Stainton
Beyond Images
2001
The Forever Lands
Mark O?CONNOR
Biblioasis
Canada
2021
Forgotten Work
Jason Guriel
2021
Gardens of the Interregnum
Norm Sibum
2020
Braille Rainbow
Mike Barnes
2020
New Brunswick
Shane Neilson
2019
Dark Woods
Richard Sanger
2019
Years, Months, and Days
Amanda Jernigan
2018
Class Clown
Pino Coluccio
2018
Real Is the Word They Use to Contain Us
Noah Wareness
2018
The Analyst
Molly Peacock
2017
Let the Empire Down
Alexandra Oliver
2017
Metanoia
Sharon McCartney
2017
Octopus
Patrick Warner
2017
Short Takes on the Apocalypse
Patricia Young
2016
Montreal Before Spring
Donald McGrath,
Robert Melancon
2016
My Shoes Are Killing Me
Robyn Sarah
2016
Sum
Zachariah Wells
2015
Glad & Sorry Seasons
Catherine Chandler
2015
Inheritance
Kerry-Lee Powell
2014
For As Far As The Eye Can See
Judith (Robert Melancon) Cowan
2014
Meeting the tormenters in safeway
Alexandra Oliver
2014
Zero Kelvin
Richard Norman
2013
Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle
Jessica Hiemstra
2013
Sub Divo
Norm Sibum
2013
The Least Important Man
Alex Boyd
2012
All This Could Be Yours
Joshua Trotter
2012
Groundwork
Amanda Jernigan
2012
Lost Luggage
Salvatore Ala
2012
Open Air Bindery
David Hickey
2012
The Illustrated Edge
Marsha Pomerantz
2011
A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel
David Starkey
2010
Jane Again
Wayne Clifford
2010
Meniscus
Shane Neilson
2010
Pause for Breath
Robyn Sarah
2010
The Pangborn Defence
Norm Sebum
2010
Track & Trace
Zachariah Wells
2008
I Wrote Stone
Diana Kuprel,
Marek Kusiba,
Ryszard Kapuscinski
2008
The Properties of Things from The Poems of Bartholomew the Englishman
David Solway
2008
Time's Covenant
Eric Ormsby
2006
from Sarajevo with Sorrow
Goran Simic
2005
Straight Razor and Other Poems
Salvatore Ala
Bilingual Press
2005
Bestiary: selected poems
Rosa Alcala,
Lourdes Vazquez
2001
Red
Arthur Arteaga
Biographical Publishing Company
United States
2013
Amlethus Book I
Carl Melanson
2007
Come, Live in This World
Rajko Igic
Birds, LLC
United States
2020
While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country)
Raquel Salas Rivera
2019
RED
Chase Berggrun
2012
Either Way I'm Celebrating
Sommer Browning
2012
Kings of the Fucking Sea
Dan Boehl
BkMk Press
United States
2021
Altar for Broken Things
Deborah Miranda
2021
Can You Smell the Rain?
Patricia Cleary Miller
2021
Dark Braid
Dara Yen Elerath
2021
Mozart's Pigtail
Roderick Townley
2020
Latter Days of Eve
Beverly Burch
2019
Crude Angel
Suzanne Cleary
2019
Sweet Herbaceous Miracle
Berwyn Moore
2018
Currents
Bojan Louis
2018
Feet of the Messenger
H. C. Palmer
2017
The Red Hijab
Bonnie Bolling
2016
One Blackbird at a Time
Wendy Barker
2016
Quiet City
Susan Aizenberg
2015
Border States
Jane Hoogestraat
2014
Axis Mundi
Karen Holmberg
2014
Beauty Mark
Suzanne Cleary
2014
In Someone Else's House
Christian Barter
2014
Trouble Behind Glass Doors
Walter Bargen
2012
Secret Wounds
Richard M. Berlin
2011
Mapmaking
Megan Harlan
2009
Airs & Voices
Paula Bonnell
2009
Black Tupelo Country
Doug Ramspeck
2008
Cleaning a Rainbow
Gary Gildner
2007
The Book of the Rotten Daughter
Alice Friman
2007
Wayne's College of Beauty
David Swanger
2006
Circe, After Hours
Marilyn Kallet
2006
Fence Line
Curtis Bauer
2006
Lake Erie Blue
Susan Grimm
2006
Prayer Against Famine and other Irish Poems
John Knoepfle
2006
Street fighting
Daniel Donaghy
2006
The Feast
Walter Bargen
2006
The Portable Famine
Rane Arroyo
Black Lawrence Press
United States
2021
(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)
Shanna Compton
2021
Seahorses
Abayomi Animashaun
2021
sick
Jody Chan
2021
Tether
Lisa Fay Coutley
2021
Women In The Waiting Room
Kirun Kapur
2020
This Bright Darkness
Sarah McKinstry-Brown
2019
City of Incandescent Light
Matt McBride
2019
Girl Paper Stone
Laurie Filipelli
2019
Love Letter to an Afterlife
Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
2019
prey
Jeanann Verlee
2019
The Book of Sharks
Rob Carney
2016
Gog
Brandi George
2012
The Principle Agent
Sarah Suzor
Black Moss Press
Canada
2021
A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Earth
Lisa Shatzky
2021
Prompted by Happiness
Elizabeth Zetlin
2021
so am i
Samantha Badaoa
2021
suck & spit
Laurie Smith
2021
The Midnight Moon Sings of Murder
Mary Ann Mulhern
2021
The Way History Dries
Keith Inman
2021
The Yellow House
Paulette Rivait
2021
Tùkhòne: Where the River Narrows and Shores Bend
D. A. Lockhart
2020
Mara's Lamp
Don Gutteridge
2020
Moths That Drink the tears of Sleeping Birds
John B. Lee
2020
Shimmer
Robert Hilles
2019
Ask the River
Denis Robillard
2019
Haunt
Susan McMaster
2019
Haunt
Susan McMaster
2019
Line
Robert Hilles
2019
Morning Song
Carlinda D’Alimonte
2018
1967: Centennial Year
Bruce Meyer
2018
Inklings
Don Gutteridge
2018
Nightlights
Anna Yin
2018
Seasia
Keith Inman
2018
Some Other Sky
Kim Fahner
2018
The Artists of Crow County
Kara Ghobhainn Smith
2018
The Bells That Ring
Lisa Shatzky
2018
This City at the Crossroads
D. A. Lockhart
2017
How We Fare
Mary Ann Mulhern
2017
I'll Be There Soon
John Wing Jr.
2017
Look At Her
Vanessa Shields
2017
Small Acts
Bernice Lever
2017
The Blue Flow Below
Don Gutteridge
2017
Two Maps of Emery
Lawrence Hutchman
2016
Code Orange
Karen Mulhallen
2016
Learning to Settle Down
Chad Norman
2016
Seven Nights With The Chinese Zodiac
Anna Yin
2016
The Full Measure
John B. Lee
2016
The Madness of Planets
Bruce Meyer
2016
Tidings
Don Gutteridge
2016
Touch the Darkness
Marty Gervais
2016
When the Colours Run
Lisa Shatzky
2015
Burning My Father
John B. Lee
2015
Why-Shaped Scars
John Wing Jr.
2014
Blame it on the Moon
Lisa Shatzky
2014
Book of Blue
Shirley Graham
2014
Glass Beads
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg
2014
I Am That Woman
Vanessa Shields
2014
Masstown
Chad Norman
2014
The Obsession Book of Timbuktu
Bruce Meyer
2014
Women of the Cloth
April Bulmer
2012
Coming to Terms with a Child
Henry Beissel
2012
Crow
Cornelia Hoogland
2012
Do Not Call Me By My Name
Lisa Shatzky
2012
The Pillow Books
Karen Mulhallen
2012
The Punctuation Field
Elizabeth Zetlin
2012
This is a Love Song
Hugh MacDonald
2011
Partake
Robert Hilles
2010
Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me
Susan McMaster
2010
Dog Days
Bruce Meyer
2010
Other Living Things
Carlinda D’Alimonte
2007
The Life of the Four Stomachs
Marilyn Gear Pilling
2006
Poems for the Pornographer's Daughter
John B. Lee
2005
Grace Notes
Eugene McNamara
2005
Reading Like A Girl
Rishma Dunlop
2005
The Collected Poems 1957-2004
Robert Sward
2004
Cold Against the Heart
Hugh MacDonald
2004
Cuba Journal
Cornelia Hoogland
2004
Sea Life
Karen Mulhallen
2004
Still
Betsy Struthers
2004
Totally Unused Heart
John B. Lee
2004
Wrapped Within Again: New and Selected Poems
Robert Hilles
2002
The Half-Way Tree
John B. Lee
2001
The Bone Ladder
Rosemary Sullivan
2001
When The Devil Comes
Roger Bell
Black Ocean
United States
2021
Sense Violence
Johannes Göransson,
Helena Boberg
2007
Upon Arrival
Paula Cisewski
Black Pepper
Australia
2007
Folly & Grief
Jennifer Harrison
2007
Other Summers
Stephen Edgar
2007
The Apparition at Large
K. F. Pearson