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.
Vintage/Chatto & Windus
United Kingdom
2025
Agimat
Romalyn Ante
2025
Girl
Ruth Padel
2024
The Home Child
Liz Berry
2023
The Illustrated Woman
Helen Mort
2022
A Blood Condition
Kayo Chingonyi
2022
Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
Leo Boix
2021
Antiemetic for Homesickness
Romalyn Ante
2021
Asleep and Awake
John Fuller
2021
Beethoven Variations
Ruth Padel
2021
Homie
Danez Smith
2021
Inmates
Sean Borodale
2021
The Candlelight Master
2021
The Martian's Regress
J. O. Morgan
2021
Tongues of Fire
Sean Hewitt
2020
Sleeping Letters
Marie-Elsa R. Bragg
2018
A Herring Famine
Adam O’Riordan
2018
Kumukanda
Kayo Chingonyi
2017
No Map Could Show Them
Helen Mort
2017
The Bone Flowers
John Fuller
2017
The Catch
Fiona Sampson
2017
The Catch
Fiona Sampson
2017
Tidings
Ruth Padel
2016
Gravel in My Shoe
John Fuller
2016
Loop of Jade
Sarah Howe
2016
Shingle Street
Blake Morrison
2015
Black Country
Liz Berry
2015
Learning to make an Oud in Nazareth
Ruth Padel
2015
The Dice Cup
John Fuller
2014
Coleshill
Fiona Sampson
2014
Division Street
Helen Mort
2013
The Mara Crossing
Ruth Padel
2006
A Shorter Life
Alan Jenkins
2006
We Were Pedestrians
Gerard Woodward
2005
The Soho Leopard
Ruth Padel
2003
Gilgamesh
Derrek Hines (Tr.)
2003
Now and For a Time
John Fuller
2003
Voodoo Shop
Ruth Padel
2001
Bloodlines
Fred D?AGUIAR
2001
The Drift
Alan Jenkins
Vintage/Jonathan Cape
England
2025
Food for the Dead
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
2025
Rapture's Road
Sean Hewitt
2025
Slip
Amelia Loulli
2024
Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri
2024
Blood Feather
Patrick McGuinness
2024
Taking Liberties
Leontia Flynn
2023
Ephemeron
Fiona Benson
2023
Slide
Mark Pajak
2023
The Slain Birds
2022
Learning to Sleep
John Burnside
2022
pandemonium
Andrew McMillan
2022
Ransom
2022
Stones
Kevin Young
Virgo Publications
India
2014
Love Invisible
C. P. Rajasekharan
2013
The Mischievous Mind
C. P. Rajasekharan
W. W. Norton & Company
United States
2025
Exit Opera
Kim Addonizio
2025
Life on Earth
Dorianne Laux
2025
Load in Nine Times
Frank X Walker
2025
Skip Tracer
Jive Poetic
2025
Sturge Town
Kwame Dawes
2025
The Invention of the Darling
Li-Young Lee
2025
The Widow's Crayon Box
Molly Peacock
2025
Two Minds
Callie Siskel
2024
An Ordnary Life
B. H. Fairchild
2024
Calligraphies
Marilyn Hacker
2024
Disease of Kings
Anders Carlson-Wee
2024
Sage
Marilyn Chin
2024
The Iliad
Emily Wilson (Tr.),
Homer
2024
The World Behind the World
April Bernard
2024
Up Late
Nick Laird
2024
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again
A. Van Jordan
2023
Coloratura in a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems
Alice Fulton
2023
How to Communicate
John Lee Clark
2023
Husbandry
Matthew Dickman
2023
Midwood
Jana Prikryl
2023
Someday the Plan of a Town
Todd Boss
2023
Whale Fall
David Baker
2023
Wound is the Origin of Wonder
Maya C. Popa
2022
A Symmetry
Ari Banias
2022
Duino Elegies
Alfred Corn (Tr.),
Rainer Maria Rilke
2022
Floaters
Martin Espada
2022
Forever
James Longenbach
2022
Made to Explode
Sandra Beasley
2022
Now We're Getting Somewhere
Kim Addonizio
2022
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Rita Dove
2022
The Curious Thing
Sandra Lim
2022
Vertigo & Ghost
Fiona Benson
2021
Demo
Charlie Smith
2021
Foreign Bodies
Kimiko Hahn
2021
Insomnia
John Kinsella
2021
Seeing the Body
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
2021
So Forth
Rosanna Warren
2021
The Absurd Man
Major Jackson
2020
An American Sunrise
2020
Battle Dress
Karen Skolfield
2020
Feel Free
Nick Laird
2020
Felon
Reginald Dwayne Betts
2020
Hylonda
Tina Chang
2020
Judgment Day
Sandra Gilbert
2020
Pagan Virtues
Stephen Dunn
2020
Swift
David Baker
2020
The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
Gregory Orr
2020
The Low Passions
Anders Carlson-Wee
2019
4:30 Movie
Donna Masini
2019
A Memory of the Future
Elizabeth Spires
2019
Because: A Lyric Memoir
Joshua Mensch
2019
Luxury
Philip Schultz
2019
The River in the Sky
Clive James
2019
The Undressing
Li-Young Lee
2019
Wonderland
Matthew Dickman
2018
Double Portrait
Brittany Perham
2018
Earthling
James Longenbach
2018
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
Ahmad Sadri (Tr.),
Ferdowski
2018
Square Inch Hours
Sherod Santos
2018
Sun in Days
Meghan O’Rourke
2018
The Odyssey
Emily Wilson (Tr.),
Homer
2017
A Poet's Dublin
Eavan Boland
2017
Against Sunset
Stanley Plumly
2017
Anybody
Ari Banias
2017
Entering History
Mary Steward Hammond
2017
Mortal Trash
Kim Addonizio
2016
Barely Composed
Alice Fulton
2016
Count the Waves
Sandra Beasley
2016
Double Sorrow
Lavinia Greenlaw
2016
In the Flesh
Adam O’Riordan
2016
Insomnia
Linda Pastan
2016
Oracle
Cate Marvin
2016
Roll Deep
Major Jackson
2016
Scavenger Loop
David Baker
2015
A Woman Without a Country
Eavan Boland
2015
Brain Fever
Kimiko Hahn
2015
Divine Nothingness
2015
Hard Love Province
Marilyn Chin
2015
Lines of Defense
Stephen Dunn
2015
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Edith Grossman (Tr.),
Juana Ines de la Cruz
2015
The Wherewithal
Philip Schultz
2015
The Wilderness
Sandra Lin
2014
Go Giants
Nick Laird
2014
Headwaters: Poems
Ellen Bryant Voigt
2014
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Clive James
2014
River Inside the River
Gregory Orr
2014
The Cineaste
A. Van Jordan
2014
The Divine Comedy
Clive James (Tr.),
Dante Alighieri
2014
The Fabliaux
Nathaniel E. Dubin (Tr.),
Unknown
2014
The Late Parade
Adam Fitzgerald
2014
The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard
Dana Goodyear
2013
An Individual History
Michael Collier
2013
Engine Empire
Cathy Park Hong
2013
In Beauty Bright
2013
Mayakovsky's Revolver
Matthew Dickman
2013
Orphan Hours
Stanley Plumly
2013
Pitch
Todd Boss
2013
The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale
William Arrowsmith (Tr.),
Eugenio Montale
2012
Aftermath
Sandra M. Gilbert
2012
Ghost in a Red Hat
Rosanna Warren
2012
Here and Now
Stephen Dunn
2012
Illuminations
John Ashbery (Tr.),
Arthur Rimbaud
2012
Once
Meghan O’Rourke
2012
Talking into the Ear of a Donkey
Robert Bly
2012
The Book of Men
Dorianne Laux
2012
The Trouble Ball
Martin Espada
2012
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
2012
Traveling Light
Linda Pastan
2011
Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise
Julie Sheehan
2011
Holding Company
Major Jackson
2011
I Was The Jukebox
Sandra Beasley
2011
The Iron Key
James Longenbach
2011
Toxic Flora
Kimiko Hahn
2011
Walking Papers
Thomas Lynch
2010
Hovering At A Low Altitude
Chana Bloch (Tr.),
Chana Kronfeld (Tr.),
Dahlia Ravikovitch
2009
Behind My Eyes
Li-Young Lee
2009
On Purpose
Nick Laird
2009
Save the Last Dance
2009
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Marie Howe
2009
The Second Blush
Molly Peacock
2009
The Wave-Maker
Elizabeth Spires
2009
Unmentionables
Beth Ann Fennelly
2009
Woman Reading to the Sea
Lisa Williams
2009
Yellowrocket
Todd Boss
2008
Domestic Violence
Eavan Boland
2008
Halflife
Meghan O’Rourke
2008
Messenger
Ellen Bryant Voigt
2008
Old Heart
Stanley Plumly
2008
Quantum Lyrics
A. Van Jordan
2008
Stil to Mow
Maxine Kumin
2008
Telephone Ringing In The Labyrinth
2007
Everything Else In the World
Stephen Dunn
2007
Hoops
Major Jackson
2007
Orient Point
Julie Sheehan
2007
Queen of a Rainy Country
Linda Pastan
2007
The Dirty Side of the Storm
Martha Serpas
2007
The Narrow Road to the Interior
Kimiko Hahn
2007
The Republic of Poetry
Martin Espada
2006
Everything is Burning: Poems
2006
Facts About the Moon: Poems
Dorianne Laux
2006
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
Sherod Santos (Tr.)
2006
Honey and Junk: Poems
Dana Goodyear
2006
Jack & Other New Poems
Maxine Kumin
2006
Midwest Eclogue: Poems
David Baker
2006
Red Shoes: Poems
Honor Moore
2006
The New Arcadia: Poems
John Kinsella
2006
The Return Message: Poems
Tessa Rumsey
2006
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
Genine Kunitz
2005
American Smooth
Rita Dove
2005
Belongings
Sandra M. Gilbert
2005
Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems
Alice Fulton
2005
Figment: Poems
Rebecca Wolff
2005
Macnolia
A. Van Jordan
2005
Tender Hooks
Beth Ann Fennelly
2005
the school among the ruins
2005
Turning to Fiction
Donna Masini
2005
what is this thing called love
Kim Addonizio
2005
Women of America
Charlie Smith
2004
Bringing Together
Maxine Kumin
2004
Departure
Rosanna Warren
2004
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
Marilyn Hacker
2004
Dread
Ai
2004
Local Visitations
Stephen Dunn
2004
Peripheral Light
John Kinsella
2004
The Perishing
Sherod Santos
2003
Cornucopia
Molly Peacock
2003
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
B. H. Fairchild
2003
How We Became Human
2003
Inferno
Michael Palma (Tr.),
Dante Alighieri
2003
Necessity
Peter Sacks
2003
Now the Green Blade Rises
Elizabeth Spires
2003
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
Marilyn Chin
2003
Shadow of Heaven
Ellen Bryan Voigt
2003
Swan Electric
April Bernard
2003
The Artist's Daughter
Kimiko Hahn
2003
The Last Uncle
Linda Pastan
2002
Against Love Poetry
Eavan Boland
2002
Climbing Back
Dionisio Martinez
2002
Felt
Alice Fulton
2002
Fox: Poems 1998-2000
2002
Landscape with Chainsaw
James Lasdun
2002
Miracle Fair: Selected Peoms of Wislana Szymborska
Joanna Trzeciak (Tr.),
Polish
2002
Rooms Are Never Finished
Agha Shahid Ali
2002
The Long Marriage
Maxine Kumin
2001
A Map to the Next World
2001
Last Blue
2001
Selected Pems and Prose of Paul Celan
Wake Forest University Press
United States
2021
The Candlelight Master
2021
The Mother House
2021
The Rain Barrel
Frank Ormsby
2020
Herod's Dispensations
Harry Clifton
2019
Live Streaming
Conor O’Callaghan
2018
The Darkness of Snow
Frank Ormesby
2018
The President of Planet Earth
David Wheatley
2016
From Elsewhere
Ciaran Carson
2016
Geis
Catriona O’Reilly
2016
The Boys of Bluehill
N.
2014
The Sun King
Conor O’Callaghan
2013
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Harry Clifton
2011
Until Before After
Ciaran Carson
2009
For All We Know
Ciaran Carson
2005
The Book of the Angel
Medbh McGuckian
2004
Breaking News
Ciaran Carson
Ward Wood Publishing
United Kingdom
2014
The Anvil's Prayer
James W. Wood
2011
Too Close
Ann Alexander
Washington Writers’ Publishing House
USA
2025
Aguas/Waters
Jona Colson (Tr.),
Miguel Avero
2024
Leda's Daughters
K. Avvirin Berlin
Waterloo Press
United Kingdom
2020
Broken Voices
David Pollard
2016
Letters to Akhmatova
Patricia McCarthy
2012
the waltz in my blood
Mario Petrucci
2009
The Night Pavilion
Naomi Foyle
2009
The Shirley Valentine Syndrome
Pauline Suett Barbieri
Waterloo Press (Hove)
United Kingdom
2008
About Bloody Time
Simon Jenner
2008
Patricides
David Pollard
2008
Sleeping with Icons
Norman Buller
2008
Speechless
Bernadette Cremin
Waterways/Flipped Eye
United Kingdom
2005
Winterburn
L. K. Robinson
2005
You're not singing anymore
Niall O’Sullivan
Wave Books
United States
2025
All About You
Chris Nealon
2025
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
C. A. Conrad
2025
Mirror Nation
2024
A Duration
Richard Meier
2024
Ascent of the Mothers
Noelle Kocot
2024
Chariot
Timothy Donnelly
2024
I am the dead, who, you take care of me
Anthony McCann
2024
Iggy Horse
Michael Earl Craig
2024
New Life
Ana Božičević
2024
The Shining
Dorothea Lasky
2024
Uncollected later Poems (1968-1979)
Graham Foust (Tr.),
Samuel Frederick (Tr.),
Ernst Meister
2023
And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
Lynn Xu
2023
Blood Snow
dg nanouk okpik
2023
Copy
Robin Myers (Tr.),
Dolores Dorantes
2023
Plans for Sentences
Renee Gladman
2023
Slight Return
Rebecca Wolff
2023
Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina
Dara Barrois/Dixon
2023
Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists
Laynie Browne
2023
Triptychs
Sandra Simonds
2022
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
2022
Animal Days
Joshua Beckman
2022
Giant Moth Perishes
Geoffrey Nutter
2022
Hoarders
Kate Durbin
2021
DMZ Colony
2021
God's Green Earth
Noelle Kocot
2021
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
Lisa Fishman
2021
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From
Sawako Nakayasu
2021
The Shore
Chris Nealon
2021
The Sky Contans the Plans
2020
Dunce
Mary Ruefle
2020
Grief Sequence
Prageeta Sharma
2020
Hear Trains
Caroline Knox
2020
SoundMachine
Rachel Zucker
2020
The Problem of the Many
Timothy Donnelly
2020
The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
Magdalena Zurawski
2020
Woods and Clouds Interchangeable
Michael Earl Craig
2019
Baby, I don't care
Chelsey Minnis
2019
Body & Glass
Rodney Koeneke
2019
Experience in Groups
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
2019
Milk
Dorothea Lasky
2019
Orlando
Sandra Simonds
2019
Something for Everybody
Anselm Berrigan
2019
The Lives of the Poems
Joshua Beckman
2019
Three Talks
Joshua Beckman
2019
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
Terrance Hayes
2019
XoeteoX
Edwin Torres
2018
In the Still of the Night
Dara Wier
2018
Of Mongrelitude
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2018
Royals
Cedar Sigo
2018
The Others
2018
While Standing in Line for Death
C. A. Conrad
2017
Calamities
Renee Gladman
2017
Cities at Dawn
Geoffrey Nutter
2017
Hardly War
2017
My Private Property
Mary Ruefle
2017
Olio
Tyehimba Jess
2017
Power Ballads
Garrett Caples
2016
24 Pages and Other Poems
Lisa Fishman
2016
A Roll of the Dice
Jeff Clark (Tr.),
Robert Bononno (Tr.),
Stephane Mallarme
2016
Illocality
Joseph Massey
2016
Of Entirety Say the Sentence
Graham Foust (Tr.),
Frederick,Samuel (Tr.),
Ernst Meister
2016
One Morning-
Rebecca Wolff
2016
Surrounded by Friends
2016
To Drink Boiled Snow
Caroline Knox
2016
Touch
Rod Smith
2015
ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
C. A. Conrad
2015
Etruria
Rodney Koeneke
2015
If I Don't Breathe, How Do I Sleep
Joe Wenderoth
2015
Language Arts
Cedar Sigo
2015
Talkativeness
Michael Earl Craig
2015
The Pedestrians
Rachel Zucker
2015
Thing Music
Anthony McCann
2015
Wallless Space
Graham Foust (Tr.),
Samuel Frederick (Tr.),
Ernst Meister
2014
Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic
Cole Heinowitz (Tr.),
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
2014
Flemish
Caroline Knox
2014
People on Sunday
G. O’Brien
2014
Soul in Space
Noelle Kocot
2014
The Inside of an Apple
Joshua Beckman
2014
The Rose of January
Geoffrey Nutter
2014
Trances of the Blast
Mary Ruefle
2014
You Good Thing
Dara Wier
2013
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon
C. A. Conrad
2013
As Long as Trees Last
2013
In Time's Rift
Graham Foust (Tr.),
Samuel Frederick (Tr.),
Ernst Meister
2013
Madness, Rack and Honey
Mary Ruefle
2013
Snowflake
Eileen Myles
2013
Thunderbird
Dorothea Lasky
2012
Destroyer and Preserver
2012
I Heart Your Fate
Anthony McCann
2012
Notes from Irrelevance
Anselm Berrigan
2012
The Bigger World
Noelle Kocot
2011
Black Life
Dorothea Lasky
2011
Christopher Sunset
Geoffrey Nutter
2011
The Cloud Corporation
Timothy Donnelly
2011
Thin Kimono
Michael Earl Craig
2010
Museum of Accidents
Rachel Zucker
2010
Poemland
Chelsey Minnis
2010
Sunny Wednesday
Noelle Kocot
2010
Take It
Joshua Beckman
2009
City of Corners
John Godfrey
2009
New Exercises
Charles Borkhuis (Tr.),
Franck Andre Jamme
2009
Quaker Guns
Caroline Knox
2008
Awe
Dorothea Lasky
2008
Citizen Of
Christian Hawkey
2008
No Real Light
Joe Wenderoth
2008
Rise Up
2008
Scented Fox
Laynie Browne
2008
Sorry, Tree
Eileen Myles
2007
Moon Garden
Anthony McCann
2007
Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems
Noelle Kocot
2007
Rain
Jon Woodward
2007
Remnants of Hannah
Dara Wier
2007
Shake
Joshua Beckman
2007
Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar
Richard Meier
2007
Three, Breathing
S. A. Stepanek