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.
Beltway Editions
USA
2025
Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love 'N' Sex In Sonnets
Liza Achilles
2024
Diving at the Lip of the Water
Karen Poppy
Berkeley NAL/Berkeley
2022
Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans
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
2025
Barfly
Michael Lista
2024
Pascal's Fire
Kristina Bresnen
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2024
The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles
Jason Guriel
2023
Hail, the Invisible Watchman
Alexandra Oliver
2023
The Affirmations
Luke Hathaway
2023
The Day-Breakers
Michael Fraser
2022
Romantic
Mark Callanan
2022
Strangers
Rob Taylor
2022
The Debt
Andreae Callanan
2022
Villa Negativa
Sharon McCartney
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 (Tr.),
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 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 (Tr.),
Marek Kusiba (Tr.),
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 (Tr.),
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
United States
2025
No More Flowers
Stephanie Cawley
2025
Wrong Heaven Again
Ryan Eckes
2023
Good Actors
Sommer Browning
2023
Tropical Sacrifice
Lucas de Lima
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