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.
Black Widow Press
United States
2017
Soraya
Anis Shivani
2015
Guarding the Air
Roger Greenwald,
Gunnar Harding
2012
City Without People: The Katrina Poems
Niyi Osundare
2011
Anticline
2010
Fire Exit
Robert Kelly
2010
The Grindstone of Rapport* (see paperwork inside front cover of book)
Black Widow Press/Commonwealth Books
United States
2021
A Flea The Size of Paris
Ted Byrne,
Donato Mancini,
Anonymous
2014
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader
Jerome Rothenberg
Blackstaff Press
United Kingdom
2008
Suntrap
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
2007
Autumn Beguiles the Fatalist
Michael Foley
2001
The Cold That Burns
Siobh Campbell
BlazeVOX [books]
United States
2019
Back Principles
Stephen Bett
2017
Un/Wired
Stephen Bett
2016
Those Godawful Streets of Man
Stephen Bett
2014
Dear Darwish
Morani Kornberg-Weiss
2011
Track This: A Book of Relationship
Stephen Bett
Bloodaxe Books
United Kingdom
2021
Belongings
David Constantine
2021
Between the Islands
Philip Gross
2021
Chameleon
David Colmer,
Charlotte Van den Broeck
2021
Ledger
Jane Hirshfield
2021
Magnum Mysterium
Julie O’Callaghan
2021
Passport to Here and There
Grace Nichols
2021
Return by Minor Road
Heidi Williamson
2021
The Wreck of the Fathership
W. N. Herbert
2021
Tiger Girl
Pascale Petit
2021
Where Now Begins
Kerry Hardie
2020
After Cézanne
Maitrey Abandhu
2020
Edge
Katrina Porteous
2020
Hand & Skull
Zoe Brigley
2020
I May be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Selima Hill
2020
Noctuary
Niall Campbell
2020
Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink
Mark Waldron
2020
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
Vidyan Ravinthiran
2020
The Rain Barrel
Frank Ormsby
2020
Trawlerman's Turquoise
Matthew Caley
2020
What Planet
Miriam Gamble
2020
When the Tree Falls
Jane Clarke
2020
Whit-Hot & Grippy
Heather Phillipson
2019
Blackbird, Bye Bye
Moniza Alvi
2019
Days of Grace
Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov,
Doris Kareva
2019
Feral
Kate Potts
2019
Girls are Coming Out of the Woods
Tishani Doshi
2019
Insistence
Ailbhe Darcy
2019
Isn't Forever
Amy Key
2019
Jinx
Abigail Parry
2019
Luck is The Hook
Imtiaz Dharker
2019
My Life as a Painter
Matthew Sweeney
2019
The Barbarian's Return
Adam Sorkin,
Lidia Vianu,
Mircea Dinescu
2019
Wake
Gillian Allnutt
2018
A Bright Acoustic
Philip Gross
2018
Hello. You're Promise has been extracted
Ahren Warner
2018
Inside the Wave
Helen Dunmore
2018
Mama Amazonica
Pascale Petit
2018
Narrative Poems by Yang Lian
Brian Holton,
Yang Lian
2018
So Glad I'm Me
Roddy Lumsden
2018
Splash Like Jesus
Selima Hill
2018
The Darkness of Snow
Frank Ormesby
2018
The Sea Migrations: Tahriib
Clare Pollard,
Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf
2017
A Monkey at the Window
Sarah Maguire,
Mark Ford,
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
2017
Chan
Hannah Lowe
2017
Love is a Place
Anna Crowe,
Joan Margarit
2017
Meanwhile, Trees
Mark Waldron
2017
Playing the Ghost of Maimonides
John Agard
2017
Slakki: New and Neglected Poems
Roy Fisher
2017
The Dog of Memory
Helen Farish
2017
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence
Selima Hill
2017
The Months
2017
The Silvering
Maura Dooley
2016
Alive Alive O
Greta Stoddart
2016
Considering the Women
Choman Hardi
2016
Geis
Catriona O’Reilly
2016
Inquisition Lane
Matthew Sweeney
2016
Jutland
Selima Hill
2016
Love Songs of Carbon
Philip Gross
2016
Maninbo: Peace & War
Brother Anthony of Taize,
Lee Sang-Wha,
Ko Un
2016
Not In This World
Tracey Herd
2016
One Evening In October I Rowed Out On The Lake
David McDuff,
Tua Forsstrom
2016
Salamander Sun & Other Poems
David McDuff,
Pia Tafdrup
2016
The Land Ballot
Fleur Adcock
2016
The Wilderness Party
A. B. Jackson
2015
Elder
David Constantine
2015
I'm OK, I'm Pig
2015
Not All Honey
Roddy Lumsden
2015
Over the Moon
Imtiaz Dharker
2015
The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism
Selima Hill
2015
The Zebra Stood in the Night
Kerry Hardie
2015
When God is a Traveller
Arundhathi Subramaniam
2014
At the Time of Partition
Moniza Alvi
2014
Bad Machine
George Szirtes
2014
Glass Wings
Fleur Adcock
2014
Horse Music
Matthew Sweeney
2014
Later
Philip Gross
2014
Omnesia (Alternative Text)
W. N. Herbert
2014
Omnesia (Remix)
W. N. Herbert
2014
Pretty
Ahren Warner
2014
Tiger Facing the Mist
Pauline Stainer
2014
Travel Light Travel Dark
John Agard
2013
Astonishment
Anne Stevenson
2013
Conquest
Zo Brigley
2013
Everything Begins Elsewhere
Tishani Doshi
2013
First Person Sorrowful
Sang-Wha Lee,
Brother Anthony,
Ko Un
2013
Head On
Clare Shaw
2013
Nocturnes at Nohant
Helen Farish
2013
Pelt
Sarah Jackson
2013
People Who Like Meatballs
Selima Hill
2013
Stray
Amanda Dalton
2013
Terrestrial Variations
Jane Griffiths
2013
The Blue Den
Stephanie Norgate
2013
The Day Hospital
Sally Read
2013
The Farewell Glacier
Nick Drake
2013
The Malarkey
Helen Dunmore
2013
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Harry Clifton
2012
As Though We Were Flying
Andrew Greig
2012
Breaking Silence
Jacob Sam-La Rose
2012
Catulla Et Al
Tiffany Atkinson
2012
Changeling
Clare Pollard
2012
Confer
Ahren Warner
2012
Countdown
Carole Satyamurti
2012
Deep Field
Philip Gross
2012
Grace
Esther Morgan
2012
House of Tongues
2012
Imaginary Menagerie
Ailbhe Darcy
2012
Ireland is Changing Mother
Rita Ann Higgins
2012
Sparrow Tree
Gwyneth Lewis
2012
Strangely Happy
Anna Crowe,
Joan Margarit
2012
Terrific Melancholy
Roddy Lumsden
2011
A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis
2011
Dragon Talk
Fleur Adcock
2011
Sandgrain and Hourglass
Penelope Shuttle
2011
Standard Midland
Roy Fisher
2011
Tarkovsky's Horses and Other Poems
David McDuff,
Pia Tafdrup
2011
The Swing in the Middle of Chaos
Fischerov
2011
Tongues
Michael O’Siadhail
2011
Vendange Tardive
Peter Reading
2009
Birdsong on the Seabed
Sasha Dultdale,
Elena Shvarts
2009
Crossing The Snowline
Pauline Stainer
2009
Europa
Moniza Alvi
2009
Hidden River
Stephanie Norgate
2009
Life Under Water
Maura Dooley
2009
Nigh-No-Place
Jen Hadfield
2009
Starve The Poets!: Selected Poems
Simon Patton,
Tao Naikan,
Yi Sha
2009
The Hat
Selima Hill
2009
The Sinking Road
Paul Batchelor
2009
What It Is: Selected Poems
Francis R. Jones,
Esther Jansma
2008
Beasts of Nalunga
Jack Mapanje
2008
Darling
Jackie Kay
2008
De-Iced
2008
From Blossoms: Selected Poems
Li-Young Lee
2008
From The Word Go
Nick Drake
2008
Geography for the Lost
Kapka Kassabova
2008
Glad of these Times
Helen Dunmore
2008
Globe
Micheal O’Siadhail
2008
How The Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems
Gillian Allnutt
2008
Like Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems
2008
New Wings: Poems 1977 - 2007
Robyn Bolam
2008
Paraphernalia
Joanne Limburg
2008
Selected Poems
W. S. Merwin
2008
Stone Milk
Anne Stevenson
2008
Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems
Roger Pulvers,
Kenji Miyazawa
2008
The Secret
Zoe Brigley
2008
Thirst
Mary Oliver
2008
Windrush Songs
James Berry
2007
After
Jane Hirshfield
2007
American Blue: Selected Poems
Elizabeth Alexander
2007
Bad Shaman Blues
Herbert W. N.
2007
Cicada: Selected Poetry & Prose
Emily Lygo,
Tatiana Voltskaia
2007
I studied once at a wonderful faculty
David McDuff,
Stina Katchadourian,
Tua Forsstrom
2007
Natural History & Other Poems
Dan Chiasson
2007
Now
Brendan Kennelly
2007
Red Roses
Selima Hill
2007
Redgrove's Wife
Penelope Shuttle
2007
Stranger to Nothing: Selected Poems
Philip Levine
2007
The Egg of Zero
Philip Gross
2007
The Fifth Figure
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
2007
The Sea Cabinet
Caitiona O’Reilly
2007
The terrorist at my table
Imtiaz Dharker
2007
Transgressions: Selected Poems
Jack Gilbert
2007
Tugs in the Fog:Selected Poems
Anna Crowe,
Joan Margarit
2007
We Brits
John Agard
2006
-273.15
Peter Reading
2006
Each Happiness Ringed by Lions
Jane Hirshfield
2006
Life Mask
Jackie Kay
2006
Poems 1955-2005
Anne Stevenson
2006
Take Me With You
Polly Clark
2006
The Long and The Short of It
Roy Fisher
2006
What Narcissism Means To Me
Tony Hoagland
2005
Collected Poems
David Constantine
2005
Double Crossing
Eva Salzman
2005
Ground Water
Matthew Hollis
2005
Lou-Lou
Selima Hill
2005
Mischief Night
Roddy Lumsden
2005
Poems 1968-2004
Carol Rumens
2005
Reel
George Szirtes
2005
Sojourner
Gillian Allnutt
2005
Tails
Kona MacPhee
2005
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
2004
A Report from the Border
Anne Stevenson
2004
Collected Poems 3: Poems 1997-2003
Peter Reading
2004
In Defence of Adultery
Julia Copus
2004
Keeping Mum
Gwyneth Lewis
2004
Mappa Mundi
Philip Gross
2004
Martial Art
Brendan Kennelly
2004
Night Toad: New & Selected Poems
2004
Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems
Peter Didsbury
2004
Someone else's life
Kapka Kassabova
2004
The Lady & The Hare: New & Selected Poems
Pauline Stainer
2003
Flame Tree
Kevin Hart
2003
Hex
Carol Rumens
2003
Lighter Than Air
David Constantine,
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
2003
Portrait of My Lover as Horse
Selima Hill
2003
Shed
Ken Smith
2003
Something for the Ghosts
David Constantine
2003
Sound Barrier
Maura Dooley
2003
The Bare Abundance
G. F. Dutton
2003
The Bumper Book of Troy
W. N. Herbert
2003
The Gossamer Wall
Micheal O’Siadhail
2002
[untitled]
Peter Reading
2002
An English Apocalypse
George Szirtes
2002
Bunny
Selima Hill
2002
Censored Poems
John Hartley Williams,
Hilde Ottschofski,
Marin Sorescu
2002
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998
Philip Gross
2002
Dead Redhead
Tracey Herd
2002
I Speak for the Devil
Imtiaz Dharker
2002
Lintel
Gillian Allnutt
2002
Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001
Helen Dunmore
2002
Queen's Gate
David McDuff,
Pia Tafdrup
2002
Stonepicker
Frieda Hughes
2002
Supernatural Love
2001
Kiss
Polly Clark
2001
Poems 1690-2000
Fleur Adcock
2001
The Budapest File
George Szirtes
Bloomsbury Publishing
India
2016
The Hollow of the Hand
P. J. Harvey
2015
The Seduction of Delhi
Abhay K.
Blue Begonia Press
United States
2012
Every Dress a Decision
Elizabeth Austen
2009
The Woman and the War Baby
Bill Ransom
2008
True North/Nord Vrai
Jody Aliesan
2007
One Hundred Steps from Shore
Jenifer Browne Lawrence
2007
The Secret Language of Women
Terry Martin
BOA Editions
United States
2021
Year of the Dog
Deborah Paredez
2020
All Its Charms
Keetje Kuipers
2020
Night Angler
Geffrey Davis
2020
The Tiny Journalist
Naomi Shihab Nye
2019
Cenzontle
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
2019
Holy Moly Carry Me
Erika Meitner
2019
Rail
Kai Carlson-Wee
2019
The Second O of Sorrow
Sean Thomas Dougherty
2017
Celestial Joyride
Michael Waters
2016
Fanny Says
Nickole Brown
2016
Testament: A Poem
G. C. Waldrep
2016
You Who Cross My Path
Tsipi Keller,
Erez Bitton
2015
Copia
Erika Meitner
2015
In A Landscape
John Gallaher
2014
No Need of Sympathy
Fleda Brown
2014
Refuge
Adrie Kusserow
2012
Transfer
Naomi Shihab Nye
2010
And
Michael Blumenthal
2010
Cool Auditor
Ray Gonzalez
2010
Sharp Stars
Sharon Bryan
2009
Elephants & Butterflies
Alan Michael Parker
2009
The Fortieth Day
Kazim Ali
2009
The Hymns of Job and Other Poems
Tsipi Keller,
Maya Bejerano
2009
Voices
Lucille Clifton
2007
Not For Specialists: New & Selected Poems
W. D. Snodgrass
2007
Woman Crossing A Field
Deena Linett
2005
Mercy
Lucille Clifton
2004
The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
2002
Book of My Nights
Li-Young Lee
2001
Blessing The Boats
Lucille Clifton
2001
Tell Me
Kim Addonizio
Book*hug Press
Canada
2021
Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Beatriz Hausner
2021
day/break
Gwen Benaway
2021
Nought
Julie Joosten
2021
Propositions and Prayers
Lise Downe
2021
Spawn
Kristen Renee Miller,
Marie-Andrée Gill
2021
The Bones Are There
Kate Sutherland
2021
This Radiant Life
Erín Moure,
Chantal Neveu
2021
Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty
Bahar Orang
2021
Without Ceremony
Angela Carr
2020
Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real
Moez Surani
2020
I am a Body of Land
Shannon Webb-Campbell
2020
Mobile
Tanis MacDonald
2020
Q & A
Adrienne Gruber
2020
Re-Origin of Speciies
Alesandra Naccarato
2020
The Odyssey
Ken Hunt
2020
Vancouver for Beginners
Alex Leslie
2020
War/Torn
Hasan Namir
2020
Wave Archive
Emmalea Russon
2020
Where, the Mile End
Julie Morrissy
2019
Branches
Mark Truscott
2019
Holy Wild
Gwen Benaway
2019
Honestly
Steven Zultanski
2019
It Begins With the Body
Hana Shafi
2019
Ledi
Kim Trainor
2019
The Lost Cosmonauts
Ken Hunt
2019
The Nonnets
Aaron Giovannone
2019
The Ritualites
Michael Nardone
2019
The Year of My Disappearance
Donald Winkler,
Carole David
2019
This Will Be Good
Mallory Tater
2018
Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes
Jennifer LoveGrove
2018
Better Nature
Fenn Stewart
2018
Charm
Christine McNair
2018
Comma
Jennifer Still
2018
False Friends
Stephen Cain
2018
If Pressed
Andrew McEwan
2018
Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp
Aaron Tucker
2018
Precious Energy
Shannon Bramer
2018
Rag Cosmology
Erin Robinsong
2018
The Truth is Told Better this Way
Liz Worth
2018
To Love the Coming End
Leanne Dunic
2017
Buoyancy
Adrienne Gruber
2017
Conjugation
2017
How To Draw a Rhinoceros
Kate Sutherland
2017
Lost Originals
David B. Goldstein
2017
My Dinosaur
Erín Moure,
Francois Turcot
2017
Operations
Moez Surani
2017
Waiting Room
Jennifer Zilm
2016
A More Perfect [
Jimmy McInnes
2016
A Spectacular Influence (Chantal Neveu)
Nathana
2016
Book of Knots
Jay Gamble
2016
Emanations: fluttertongue 6
Steven Ross Smith
2016
Endangered Hydrocarbons
Lesley Battler
2016
Huckleberry Finn
Elisabet Ràfols,
Ona Bantjes-Ràfols,
Martí Sales
2016
Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
Jake Kennedy
2016
Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina
Shannon Maguire
2016
No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol
Liz Worth
2016
the pet radish, shrunken
Pearl Pirie
2016
The Relativistic Empire
Samuel Andreyev
2016
Their Biography: an organism of relationships
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff
2015
a thin line between
Wanda Praamsma
2015
Afterletters
R. Kolewe
2015
City Book One: Singular Assumptions
Michael Boughn
2015
Here in There
Angela Carr
2015
Leak
Kate Hargreaves
2015
Metaphysical Licks
Gregoire Pam Dick
2015
Thou
2014
fur(l) parachute
Shannon Maguire
2014
Laws of Rest
David B. Goldstein
2014
Life Experience Coolant
Colin Fulton
2014
Light Light
Julie Joosten
2014
Meditations on Georges de La Tour
Roger Greenwald,
Paal-Helge Haugen
2014
Revelator
Ron Silliman
2014
The Counting House
2014
The Small Nouns Crying Faith
2014
Tuft
Kim Minkus
2013
A Step In The Right Direction
Barbara Haveland,
Morten Sondergaard
2013
Agony
Steven Zultanski
2013
Bent at the Spine
Nicole Markotic
2013
Coit
Angela Carr,
Chantal Neveu
2013
Conflict
Christine McNair
2013
Enter The Raccoon
Beatriz Hausner
2013
Form of Forms
Mark Goldstein
2013
Great Canadian Poems for the Aged
Michael Boughn
2013
I Don't Feel So Good
Elizabeth Bachinsky
2013
ivH: An Alphamath Serial
Victor Coleman
2013
repeater
Andrew McEwan
2012
Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic
Jake Kennedy
2012
I CanSay Interpellation
Stephen Cain
2012
March End Prill
Bryan Sentes
2012
Picture World
Roger Greenwald,
Niels Frank
2012
The Monotony of Fatal Accidents
Richard Krueger
2012
The Sining Material
2012
This Way
Lise Downe
2012
Trivial Everyday Things: Selected Poems
Martin Aitken,
Jørgen Leth
2012
Vermin
Lance La Rocque
2011
(made)
Cara Benson
2011
Cop Kisser
Steven Zultanski
2011
Cosmographia
Michael Boughn
2011
Fieldnotes, a forensic
Kate Eichhorn
2011
Machine Language
David Dowker
2011
Nature
Mark Truscott
2011
Now Lays The Sunshine
Andrew Hughes
2011
Recipes for the Red Planet
Meredith Quartermain
2011
The Occasional Troubadour
Victor Coleman
2011
Tracelanguage: a shared breath
Mark Goldstein
2011
World News Story
Michael Woods
2010
22 Skidoo/SubTractions
Michael Boughn
2010
After the 6ix O'Clock News
Kemeny Babineau
2010
declining america
Rob Budde
2010
Ex Machina
Jonathan Ball
2010
Face
Melissa Buzzeo
2010
The Benjamin Sonnets
Clint Burnham
2010
The Rose Concordance
Angela Carr
2009
After Rilke: to forget you sang
Mark Goldstein
2009
Every Way Oakly
Steve McCaffery
2009
FOND
Kate Eichhorn
2009
In Stereo
Paul Hegedus
2009
Mal Arme (Letter Drop III)
Victor Coleman
2009
Matter of Fact
Meredith Quartermain
2009
The SubWay
Philip Quinn
2008
Blissful Times
Sandra Alland
2008
Codes of Public Sleep
Camille Martin
2008
The Basho Variations
Steve McCaffery
2008
The Iliad Book XXII: The Death of Hector
Lisa Jarnot,
Homer
2008
What Happened
Tom Walmsley
2008
White Porcupine
2007
Icon Tact Poems 1984-2001
Victor Coleman
2007
Je Nathanaël
Nathalie Stephens,
Nathanael
2007
The Men: A Lyric Book
Lisa Robertson
2007
We Are Here
Patrick Friesen,
Brask P. K.,
Niels Hav
2006
A Boy's First Book of Chlamydia: Poems 1996-2002
Daniel F. Bradley
2006
O Spam, Poams
Rob Read
2006
Vinci, Later
John Irons,
Morten Sondergaard
Bordighera Press
United States
2021
And Not to Break
Janet Sylvester
2008
The Alchemy of Grief
Emily Ferrara