Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

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One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry

Recipients

Prize winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1986 Joe Rosenblatt Poetry HotelWinner
Anne Marriott Letters for Some IslandsShortlist
P. K. Page The Glass AirShortlist
1987 Diana Hartog Candy from StrangersWinner
John Newlove The Night the Dog SmiledShortlist
Tom Wayman The Face of Jack MunroShortlist
1988 Patricia Young All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful RoomWinner
Norm Sibum Eight PoemsShortlist
Sharon Thesen The Beginning of the Long DashShortlist
1989 Charles Lillard Circling NorthWinner
Doug Beardsley Dancing StarShortlist
bill bissett what we haveShortlist
1990 Victoria Walker SuitcaseWinner
Marlene Cookshaw The Whole ElephantShortlist
Maureen McCarthyThe Girls in the Last Seat WavingShortlist
1991 Jeff Derksen Down TimeWinner
bill bissett Hard 2 beleevShortlist
Phyllis Webb Hanging FireShortlist
1992 Barry McKinnon PulplogWinner
John Pass The Hour's AcropolisShortlist
Michael Turner Company TownShortlist
1993 bill bissett Inkorrect ThotsWinner
Kirsten Emmott How Do You Feel?Shortlist
Diana Hartog Polite to Bees: A BestiaryShortlist
1994 Gregory Scofield The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine WheelWinner
Brian Brett Poems New and SelectedShortlist
Howard White Ghost in the GearsShortlist
1995 Linda Rogers Hard CandyWinner
Aaron Bushkowsky Ed and Mabel Go to the MoonShortlist
Adeena Karasick MêmewarsShortlist
1996 Patrick Lane Too Spare, Too FierceWinner [1]
Kate Braid To this Cedar FountainShortlist
Robin Skelton The Edge of TimeShortlist
1997 Margo Button The Unhinging of WingsWinner
Marilyn Bowering AutobiographyShortlist
Joyce Nelson Seeing in the DarkShortlist
1998 Patricia Young What I Remember from My Time on EarthWinner
Lyle Neff Ivanhoe StationShortlist
Linda Rogers Heaven CakeShortlist
1999 David Zieroth How I Joined Humanity at LastWinner
Patrick Friesen St. Mary at MainShortlist
Jan Zwicky Songs for Relinquishing the EarthShortlist
2000 Lorna Crozier What the Living Won't Let GoWinner
Wayde Compton 49th Parallel PsalmShortlist
Susan Musgrave Things That Keep and Do Not ChangeShortlist
D. C. Reid Love and Other Things That HurtShortlist
Tom Wayman The Colours of the ForestShortlist
2001 Don McKay Another GravityWinner
George Bowering His LifeShortlist
Patrick Lane The Bare Plum of Winter RainShortlist
John Pass Water StairShortlist
Sue Wheeler Slow-Moving TargetShortlist
2002 Karen Solie Short Haul EngineWinner
Stephen Guppy Understanding HeavenShortlist
Aislinn Hunter Into the Early HoursShortlist
Daphne Marlatt This Tremor Love IsShortlist
Catherine Owen The Wrecks of EdenShortlist
2003 bill bissett peter among th towring boxes / text bitesWinner
Colin Browne Ground WaterShortlist
Marlene Cookshaw ShamelessShortlist
Patrick Friesen The Breath You Take from the LordShortlist
Tom Wayman My Father's CupShortlist
2004 Philip Kevin Paul Taking the Names Down from the HillWinner
Marilyn Bowering The Alchemy of HappinessShortlist
Robert Bringhurst Ursa MajorShortlist
Denise Cammiade The Creature I AmShortlist
Russell Thornton House Built of RainShortlist
2005 Jan Zwicky Robinson's CrossingWinner
Aislinn Hunter The Possible PastShortlist
Eve Joseph The Startled HeartShortlist
Patrick Lane Go LeavingShortlist
D. C. Reid The HungerShortlist
2006 Meredith Quartermain Vancouver WalkingWinner
Stephen Collis AnarchiveShortlist
Jordan Scott SiltShortlist
George Sipos Anything But the MoonShortlist
Jan Zwicky Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen SilencesShortlist
2007 Don McKay Strike / SlipWinner
Maxine Gadd Backup to BabylonShortlist
Steven Price Anatomy of KeysShortlist
Sharon Thesen The Good BacteriaShortlist
Terence Young Moving DayShortlist
2008 Rita Wong ForageWinner
George McWhirter The IncorrectionShortlist
Arleen Paré Paper TrailShortlist
Christopher Patton OxShortlist
Gillian Wigmore Soft GeographyShortlist
2009 Daphne Marlatt The GivenWinner
Karen Hofmann Water StriderShortlist
Elise Partridge Chameleon HoursShortlist
Nilofar Shidmehr Shirin and Salt ManShortlist
George Stanley Vancouver: A PoemShortlist
2010 Fred Wah Is a DoorWinner [2]
Gillian Jerome Red NestShortlist
Larissa Lai Automaton BiographiesShortlist
Miranda Pearson HarbourShortlist
David Zieroth The Fly in AutumnShortlist
2011 Stephen Collis On the MaterialWinner [3]
Ken Belford DecompositionsShortlist [4]
George Bowering My Darling Nellie GreyShortlist [4]
Jen Currin The Inquisition YoursShortlist [4]
Eve Joseph The Secret Signature of ThingsShortlist [4]
2012 John Pass CrawlspaceWinner [5]
Patrick Lane The Collected Poems of Patrick LaneShortlist [6]
Susan McCaslin Demeter Goes SkydivingShortlist [6]
Garry Thomas Morse Discovery PassagesShortlist [6]
Sharon Thesen Oyama Pink ShaleShortlist [6]
2013 Sarah de Leeuw Geographies of a LoverWinner [7]
Colin Browne The PropertiesShortlist [8]
Roger Farr IKMQShortlist [8]
Evelyn Lau A Grain of RiceShortlist [8]
Patricia Young Night-EaterShortlist [8]
2014 Jordan Abel The Place of ScrapsWinner [9]
Catherine GreenwoodThe Lost LettersShortlist [10]
Jennica HarperWoodShortlist [10]
Renée Sarojini Saklikar children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjectionsShortlist [10]
Russell Thornton Birds, Metals, Stones and RainaShortlist [10]
2015 Cecily Nicholson From the PoplarsWinner [11]
Robert BuddeDreamland TheatreShortlist [12]
Jen Currin SchoolShortlist [12]
Kayla Czaga For Your Safety Please Hold OnShortlist [12]
Patrick Lane WashitaShortlist [12]
2016 Raoul Fernandes Transmitter and ReceiverWinner [13]
Ali Blythe TwoismShortlist
Amber Dawn Where the words end and my body beginsShortlist
Miranda Pearson The Fire ExtinguisherShortlist
Jeff Steudel Foreign ParkShortlist
2017 Adèle Barclay If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for YouWinner [14]
Juliane Okot Bitek 100 DaysShortlist
Anne Fleming poemwShortlist
Rob TaylorThe NewsShortlist
Richard Therrien Sleeping in Tall GrassShortlist
2018 Mercedes Eng Prison Industrial Complex ExplodesWinner [15]
Rhonda Ganz Frequent, small loads of laundryShortlist [16]
Jónína Kirton An Honest WomanShortlist [16]
Julie Paul The Rules of the KingdomShortlist [16]
Onjana Yawnghwe Fragments, DesireShortlist [16]
2019 Laisha Rosnau Our Familiar HungerWinner [17]
Eve Joseph QuarrelsShortlist
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Port of BeingShortlist [18]
Fred Wah and Rita Wong beholden, a poem as long as the riverShortlist
Onjana Yawnghwe The Small WayShortlist
2020 Chantal Gibson How She ReadWinner [19] [20]
Ali Blythe HymnswitchShortlist [21]
Kayla Czaga Dunk TankShortlist [21]
Joseph A. Dandurand SH:LAM (The Doctor)Shortlist [21]
Sonnet L’Abbé Sonnet's ShakespeareShortlist [21]
2021 Michael PriorBurning ProvinceWinner [22] [23]
Joseph A. Dandurand The East Side of It AllShortlist [24]
Junie Désil eat salt | gaze at the oceanShortlist [24]
Valerie Mason-John I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James BaldwinShortlist [24]
Fred Wah Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170Shortlist [24]
2022 Henry DoyleNo ShelterWinner [25]
Jenny Boychuk Antonyms for DaughterShortlist [26]
shauna paull blue gaitShortlist [26]
Matt Rader GhosthawkShortlist [26]
Isabella Wang Pebble SwingShortlist [26]
2023 Otoniya J. Okot Bitek A is for AcholiShortlist [27]
Megan Fennya Jones The ProgramShortlist [27]
Cecily Nicholson HARROWINGSShortlist [27]
Tolu Oloruntoba Each One a FurnaceShortlist [27]
Sheryda Warrener Test PieceShortlist [27]

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