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.
Borealis Press
Canada
2016
All the Lovely Broken People
Marsha Barber
2012
What is the Sound of Someone Unravelling
Marsha Barber
2008
Once When I Wasn't Looking
Geraldine Ryan-Lush
2002
A Quebec City Boyhood
Joseph Griffin
2002
Deeper Than Mind
Fred Cogswell
2002
Lifting The Veil
Hedi Mizouni,
Munira Judith Avinger
2002
Unlearning Ice
Liliane Welch
2002
Woman is Goddess
Brenda Fleet
2001
The Altering Eye
Susan McCaslin
2001
The Inner Romaine of Our Lives
Cornelia Hornosty
2001
The Old Gold Woman
Frank M. Tierney
Bottle of Smoke Press
United States
2021
Cool & Other Poems
Gerard Malanga
2018
Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems
Gerard Malanga
Brambleby Books Ltd.
United Kingdom
2012
Nevisian Days: Poetry from a Caribbean Isle
Hugh David Loxdale
2011
One Under The Sun
Vincent Spada
Brandl & Schlesinger
Australia
2013
Asymmetry
Aidan Coleman
2013
Late Night Shopping
Rhyll McMaster
2013
Leaf and Stone
Margaret West
2010
Grass Notes
Sarah Day
2009
The Kingsbury Tale
Ouyang Yu
2003
This Horizon and Beyond: Poems Selected and New
Nancy-Gay Rotstein
2002
By and Large
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
2002
Ultra
John Tranter
Breakwater Books
Canada
2024
Canadian First Book Prize Winner
2021
Approaching Fire
Michelle Porter
2021
Narrow Cradle
Wade Kearley
2013
Soak
Kerri Cull
2010
Where Genesis Begins
Tom Dawe
2009
Feral Domicile
Boyd Chubbs
2008
Around the Red Land
Larry Small
2008
The Cyclic Variations - and more new poems
Alastair MacDonald
2007
Come By Chance
Carl Leggo
2006
A Painter's Poems
Christopher Pratt
2005
The Winter of Remarkable Oranges
Boyd Warren Chubbs
2004
If More Winters, or this the Last
Alastair MacDonald
2001
Christ in the Pizza Place
Clyde Rose
Breton Books
Canada
2014
Believing the Line: The Jack Siegel Poems
Mark Silverberg
2013
Summer Preserves
Diane Reid
Brian Wrixon Books/Blurb Inc.
Canada
2015
Blue Longing
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak
2015
Flowertopia
Kathy Figueroa
2013
Paudash Poems
Kathy Figueroa
Brick Books
Canada
2022
Shortlisted
2016
Shortlisted
2015
Winner
2006
Shortlisted
2003
Winner
2002
Shortlisted
2021
Accretion
Irfan Ali
2021
Bones
Tyler Pennock
2021
Glass Float
2021
I Am the Big Heart
Sarah Venart
2021
If You Discover a Fire
Shaun Robinson
2021
The Cyborg Anthology
Lindsay B-e
2021
The Knowing Animals
Emily Skov-Nielsen
2020
By Hand
John Reibetanz
2020
Devil in the Woods
D. A. Lockhart
2020
Mowing
Marlene Cookshaw
2020
Our Latest in Folktales
Matthew Gwathmey
2020
Sotto Voce
Maureen Hynes
2020
Unidentified Poetic Object
Brian Henderson
2020
Wild Madder
Brenda Leifso
2019
False Spring
Darren Bifford
2019
How to Avoid Huge Ships
Julie Bruck
2019
Reckon
Steve McOrmond
2019
Reunion
Deanna Young
2019
Standing in the Flock of Connections
Heather Cadsby
2019
What Kind of Man Are You
Degan Davis
2019
Yellow Crane
Susan Gillis
2018
All the Names between
Julia McCarthy
2018
Auguries
Clea Roberts
2018
Cries from the Ark
Dan MacIsaac
2018
Museum of Kindness
Susan Elmslie
2018
Other Houses
Kate Cayley
2018
The Girls with Stone Faces
2018
Thin Air of the Knowable
Wendy Donawa
2017
Apres Satie - For Two and Four Hands
Dean Steadman
2017
Disturbing the Buddha
Barry Dempster
2017
Heaven's Thieves
Sue Sinclair
2017
Meditatio Placentae
Monty Reid
2017
Selah
Nora Gould
2017
Stomata
Genevieve Lehr
2017
Tell Them It Was Mozart
Angeline Schellenberg
2016
Careen
Carolyn Smart
2016
Karyotype
Kim Trainor
2016
Monologue Dogs
M. Cook
2016
Roaming Charges
Antony Di Nardo
2016
The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera
Naomi Guttman
2016
This World We Invented
Carolyn Marie Souaid
2015
Astatine
Michael Kenyon
2015
House Dreams
Deanna Young
2015
Lake of Two Mountains
Par
2015
Ordinary Hours
Karen Enns
2015
Orient
Gillian Wigmore
2015
The Fleece Era
Joanna Lilley
2015
Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
Susan Paddon
2014
Afloat
John Reibetanz
2014
Bite Down Little Whisper
Don Domanski
2014
Invisible Dogs
Barry Dempster
2014
Placeholder
Charmaine Cadeau
2014
The Family China
Ann Shin
2014
The Lost Letters
Catherine Greenwood
2014
When this world comes to an end
Kate Cayley
2013
Between Dusk and Night
Emily McGiffin
2013
Edge Effects
Jan Conn
2013
Everything, now
Jessica Moore
2013
I see my love more clearly from a distance
Nora Gould
2013
Monkey Ranch
Julie Bruck
2013
Omens in the Year of the Ox
Steven Price
2013
The Rapids
Susan Gillis
2012
A Page From The Wonders Of Life On Earth
Stephanie Bolster
2012
A Walker in the City
Meira Cook
2012
Girlwood
Jennifer Still
2012
Outskirts
2012
Sharawadji
Brian Henderson
2012
The Truth of Houses
Ann Scowcroft
2012
Vox Humana
E. Alex Pierce
2011
Alien, Correspondent
Antony Di Nardo
2011
Lost Gospels
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
2011
Return from Erebus
Julia McCarthy
2011
That Other Beauty
Karen Enns
2011
The Fetch
Nico Rogers
2011
The Good News About Armageddon
Steve McOrmond
2011
The Secret Signature of Things
2010
Botero's Beautiful Horses
Jan Conn
2010
Could Be
Heather Cadsby
2010
Hooked, Seven Poems
Carolyn Smart
2010
Hymn
John Barton
2010
Love Outlandish
Barry Dempster
2010
Other People's Lives
Chris Hutchinson
2010
The Last House
Michael Kenyon
2009
Breaker
Sue Sinclair
2009
Cypress
Barbara Klar
2009
Daughters of Men
Brenda Leifso
2009
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Randall Maggs
2009
Noble Gas, Penny Black
David O’Meara
2009
Spirit Engine
John Donlan
2009
The Luskville Reductions
Monty Reid
2008
All Our Wonder Unavenged
Don Domanski
2008
Combustion
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
2008
Going Around With Bachelors
Agnes Walsh
2008
Thin Moon Psalm
Sheri Benning
2008
Torch River
Elizabeth Philips
2008
Two Hemispheres
Nadine McInnis
2008
Woodshedding
S. E. Venart
2007
Anatomy of Keys
Steven Price
2007
Ghost Country
Steve Noyes
2007
I, Nadja and Other Poems
Susan Elmslie
2007
Ink Monkey
Diana Hartog
2007
Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems
Jan Conn
2007
Kingdom, Phylum
Adam Dickinson
2006
Habitat
Sue Wheeler
2006
Inter Alia
David Seymour
2006
Lunar Drift
Marlene Cookshaw
2006
Modern and Normal
2006
Souwesto Home
James Reaney
2006
The Burning Alphabet
Barry Dempster
2006
The Sutler
Michael Kenyon
2005
Clinic Day
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
2005
Little Horse
Susan Downe
2005
Robinson's Crossing
2005
The Memory Orchard
Tim Bowling
2005
The Pearl King and Other Poems
Catherine Greenwood
2005
The Sorrowing House
Genevieve Lehr
2005
Undone
2004
?R
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen
2004
Immigrant Blues
Amela Simic,
Goran Simic
2004
Mortal Arguments
Sue Sinclair
2004
Slovenly Love
Meira Cook
2004
The Dwelling of Weather
Hilary Clark
2004
The Vicinity
David O’Meara
2004
Your Last Day On Earth
Carla Hartsfield
2003
Cartography and Walking
Adam Dickinson
2003
Dead Man's Float
Derk Wynand
2003
Ending with Music
Marice Mierau
2003
Shameless
Marlene Cookshaw
2003
Walking Into The Night
Lyn King
2002
A Sudden Sky
2002
Foreign Homes
Joan Crate
2002
Harm's Way
Maureen Hynes
2002
Household Hints for the End of Timee
Ken Howe
2002
Secrets of Weather & Hope
Sue Sinclair
2001
Slow-Moving Target
Sue Wheeler
2001
Trouble Sleeping
Brick Mantel Books/Pen & Publish Inc.
United States
2021
Bad Indian: Poems
J. C. Mehta
2020
If the Girl Never Learns
Sue William Silverman
Brindle & Glass
Canada
2008
A Ghost in Waterloo Station
Bert Almon
2008
What We're Left With
Ben Murray
Broadstone Books
United States
2016
To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life before the Alphabet
Philip Brady
2011
Distillations and Siphonings
Jonathan Greene
Broken Jaw Press
Canada
2014
On the Threshold of Dusk
Elizabeth Gamble Miller,
Nela Rio
2011
The Moon, Tango, Always the Moon
Edith Jonsson-Devillers,
Nela Rio
2009
The Light That Makes Us Tremble
Hugh Hazelton,
Nela Rio
2007
Aubade
Rob McLennan
2007
Heart's Cupboard
Edward Gates
2007
Inappropriate Behaviour
Tim Lander
2006
Ancient Motel Landscape
Shauna McCabe
2006
Dancing Alone: Selected Poems
William Hawkins
2006
Impossible Landscapes
Tony Steele
2006
Let Rest
Jonathan Kaplansky,
Serge Patrice Thibodeau
2004
All the Perfect Disguises
Lorrie Neilsen Glenn
2004
antimatter
Hugh Hazelton
2003
Beloved Body (Cuerpo amado)
Hugh Hazelton,
Nela Rio
2003
Paper Hotel
Rob McLennan
2003
Resume Drowning
Jon Paul Fiorentino
2001
Beyond Borders
Laurence Hutchman
2001
Cranmer and Pole - Archbishops
Robert Hawkes
Brownwit Publishers
2012
Absolutely Awesome
Cedric Brown
Burning Bush Publications
2001
Antarctica
Patti Sirens