The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
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
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1986 | Joe Rosenblatt | Poetry Hotel | Winner | |
Anne Marriott | Letters for Some Islands | Shortlist | ||
P. K. Page | The Glass Air | Shortlist | ||
1987 | Diana Hartog | Candy from Strangers | Winner | |
John Newlove | The Night the Dog Smiled | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | The Face of Jack Munro | Shortlist | ||
1988 | Patricia Young | All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room | Winner | |
Norm Sibum | Eight Poems | Shortlist | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Beginning of the Long Dash | Shortlist | ||
1989 | Charles Lillard | Circling North | Winner | |
Doug Beardsley | Dancing Star | Shortlist | ||
bill bissett | what we have | Shortlist | ||
1990 | Victoria Walker | Suitcase | Winner | |
Marlene Cookshaw | The Whole Elephant | Shortlist | ||
Maureen McCarthy | The Girls in the Last Seat Waving | Shortlist | ||
1991 | Jeff Derksen | Down Time | Winner | |
bill bissett | Hard 2 beleev | Shortlist | ||
Phyllis Webb | Hanging Fire | Shortlist | ||
1992 | Barry McKinnon | Pulplog | Winner | |
John Pass | The Hour's Acropolis | Shortlist | ||
Michael Turner | Company Town | Shortlist | ||
1993 | bill bissett | Inkorrect Thots | Winner | |
Kirsten Emmott | How Do You Feel? | Shortlist | ||
Diana Hartog | Polite to Bees: A Bestiary | Shortlist | ||
1994 | Gregory Scofield | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel | Winner | |
Brian Brett | Poems New and Selected | Shortlist | ||
Howard White | Ghost in the Gears | Shortlist | ||
1995 | Linda Rogers | Hard Candy | Winner | |
Aaron Bushkowsky | Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon | Shortlist | ||
Adeena Karasick | Mêmewars | Shortlist | ||
1996 | Patrick Lane | Too Spare, Too Fierce | Winner | [1] |
Kate Braid | To this Cedar Fountain | Shortlist | ||
Robin Skelton | The Edge of Time | Shortlist | ||
1997 | Margo Button | The Unhinging of Wings | Winner | |
Marilyn Bowering | Autobiography | Shortlist | ||
Joyce Nelson | Seeing in the Dark | Shortlist | ||
1998 | Patricia Young | What I Remember from My Time on Earth | Winner | |
Lyle Neff | Ivanhoe Station | Shortlist | ||
Linda Rogers | Heaven Cake | Shortlist | ||
1999 | David Zieroth | How I Joined Humanity at Last | Winner | |
Patrick Friesen | St. Mary at Main | Shortlist | ||
Jan Zwicky | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | Shortlist | ||
2000 | Lorna Crozier | What the Living Won't Let Go | Winner | |
Wayde Compton | 49th Parallel Psalm | Shortlist | ||
Susan Musgrave | Things That Keep and Do Not Change | Shortlist | ||
D. C. Reid | Love and Other Things That Hurt | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | The Colours of the Forest | Shortlist | ||
2001 | Don McKay | Another Gravity | Winner | |
George Bowering | His Life | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Lane | The Bare Plum of Winter Rain | Shortlist | ||
John Pass | Water Stair | Shortlist | ||
Sue Wheeler | Slow-Moving Target | Shortlist | ||
2002 | Karen Solie | Short Haul Engine | Winner | |
Stephen Guppy | Understanding Heaven | Shortlist | ||
Aislinn Hunter | Into the Early Hours | Shortlist | ||
Daphne Marlatt | This Tremor Love Is | Shortlist | ||
Catherine Owen | The Wrecks of Eden | Shortlist | ||
2003 | bill bissett | peter among th towring boxes / text bites | Winner | |
Colin Browne | Ground Water | Shortlist | ||
Marlene Cookshaw | Shameless | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Friesen | The Breath You Take from the Lord | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | My Father's Cup | Shortlist | ||
2004 | Philip Kevin Paul | Taking the Names Down from the Hill | Winner | |
Marilyn Bowering | The Alchemy of Happiness | Shortlist | ||
Robert Bringhurst | Ursa Major | Shortlist | ||
Denise Cammiade | The Creature I Am | Shortlist | ||
Russell Thornton | House Built of Rain | Shortlist | ||
2005 | Jan Zwicky | Robinson's Crossing | Winner | |
Aislinn Hunter | The Possible Past | Shortlist | ||
Eve Joseph | The Startled Heart | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Lane | Go Leaving | Shortlist | ||
D. C. Reid | The Hunger | Shortlist | ||
2006 | Meredith Quartermain | Vancouver Walking | Winner | |
Stephen Collis | Anarchive | Shortlist | ||
Jordan Scott | Silt | Shortlist | ||
George Sipos | Anything But the Moon | Shortlist | ||
Jan Zwicky | Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences | Shortlist | ||
2007 | Don McKay | Strike / Slip | Winner | |
Maxine Gadd | Backup to Babylon | Shortlist | ||
Steven Price | Anatomy of Keys | Shortlist | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Good Bacteria | Shortlist | ||
Terence Young | Moving Day | Shortlist | ||
2008 | Rita Wong | Forage | Winner | |
George McWhirter | The Incorrection | Shortlist | ||
Arleen Paré | Paper Trail | Shortlist | ||
Christopher Patton | Ox | Shortlist | ||
Gillian Wigmore | Soft Geography | Shortlist | ||
2009 | Daphne Marlatt | The Given | Winner | |
Karen Hofmann | Water Strider | Shortlist | ||
Elise Partridge | Chameleon Hours | Shortlist | ||
Nilofar Shidmehr | Shirin and Salt Man | Shortlist | ||
George Stanley | Vancouver: A Poem | Shortlist | ||
2010 | Fred Wah | Is a Door | Winner | [2] |
Gillian Jerome | Red Nest | Shortlist | ||
Larissa Lai | Automaton Biographies | Shortlist | ||
Miranda Pearson | Harbour | Shortlist | ||
David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn | Shortlist | ||
2011 | Stephen Collis | On the Material | Winner | [3] |
Ken Belford | Decompositions | Shortlist | [4] | |
George Bowering | My Darling Nellie Grey | Shortlist | [4] | |
Jen Currin | The Inquisition Yours | Shortlist | [4] | |
Eve Joseph | The Secret Signature of Things | Shortlist | [4] | |
2012 | John Pass | Crawlspace | Winner | [5] |
Patrick Lane | The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane | Shortlist | [6] | |
Susan McCaslin | Demeter Goes Skydiving | Shortlist | [6] | |
Garry Thomas Morse | Discovery Passages | Shortlist | [6] | |
Sharon Thesen | Oyama Pink Shale | Shortlist | [6] | |
2013 | Sarah de Leeuw | Geographies of a Lover | Winner | [7] |
Colin Browne | The Properties | Shortlist | [8] | |
Roger Farr | IKMQ | Shortlist | [8] | |
Evelyn Lau | A Grain of Rice | Shortlist | [8] | |
Patricia Young | Night-Eater | Shortlist | [8] | |
2014 | Jordan Abel | The Place of Scraps | Winner | [9] |
Catherine Greenwood | The Lost Letters | Shortlist | [10] | |
Jennica Harper | Wood | Shortlist | [10] | |
Renée Sarojini Saklikar | children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections | Shortlist | [10] | |
Russell Thornton | Birds, Metals, Stones and Raina | Shortlist | [10] | |
2015 | Cecily Nicholson | From the Poplars | Winner | [11] |
Robert Budde | Dreamland Theatre | Shortlist | [12] | |
Jen Currin | School | Shortlist | [12] | |
Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | Shortlist | [12] | |
Patrick Lane | Washita | Shortlist | [12] | |
2016 | Raoul Fernandes | Transmitter and Receiver | Winner | [13] |
Ali Blythe | Twoism | Shortlist | ||
Amber Dawn | Where the words end and my body begins | Shortlist | ||
Miranda Pearson | The Fire Extinguisher | Shortlist | ||
Jeff Steudel | Foreign Park | Shortlist | ||
2017 | Adèle Barclay | If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You | Winner | [14] |
Juliane Okot Bitek | 100 Days | Shortlist | ||
Anne Fleming | poemw | Shortlist | ||
Rob Taylor | The News | Shortlist | ||
Richard Therrien | Sleeping in Tall Grass | Shortlist | ||
2018 | Mercedes Eng | Prison Industrial Complex Explodes | Winner | [15] |
Rhonda Ganz | Frequent, small loads of laundry | Shortlist | [16] | |
Jónína Kirton | An Honest Woman | Shortlist | [16] | |
Julie Paul | The Rules of the Kingdom | Shortlist | [16] | |
Onjana Yawnghwe | Fragments, Desire | Shortlist | [16] | |
2019 | Laisha Rosnau | Our Familiar Hunger | Winner | [17] |
Eve Joseph | Quarrels | Shortlist | ||
Shazia Hafiz Ramji | Port of Being | Shortlist | [18] | |
Fred Wah and Rita Wong | beholden, a poem as long as the river | Shortlist | ||
Onjana Yawnghwe | The Small Way | Shortlist | ||
2020 | Chantal Gibson | How She Read | Winner | [19] [20] |
Ali Blythe | Hymnswitch | Shortlist | [21] | |
Kayla Czaga | Dunk Tank | Shortlist | [21] | |
Joseph A. Dandurand | SH:LAM (The Doctor) | Shortlist | [21] | |
Sonnet L’Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare | Shortlist | [21] | |
2021 | Michael Prior | Burning Province | Winner | [22] [23] |
Joseph A. Dandurand | The East Side of It All | Shortlist | [24] | |
Junie Désil | eat salt | gaze at the ocean | Shortlist | [24] | |
Valerie Mason-John | I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin | Shortlist | [24] | |
Fred Wah | Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 | Shortlist | [24] | |
2022 | Henry Doyle | No Shelter | Winner | [25] |
Jenny Boychuk | Antonyms for Daughter | Shortlist | [26] | |
shauna paull | blue gait | Shortlist | [26] | |
Matt Rader | Ghosthawk | Shortlist | [26] | |
Isabella Wang | Pebble Swing | Shortlist | [26] | |
2023 | Juliane Okot Bitek | A is for Acholi | Winner | [27] |
Megan Fennya Jones | The Program | Shortlist | [28] | |
Cecily Nicholson | HARROWINGS | |||
Tolu Oloruntoba | Each One a Furnace | |||
Sheryda Warrener | Test Piece | |||
2024 | Jess Housty | Crushed Wild Mint | Winner | [29] |
Dominique Bernier-Cormier | Entre Rive and Shore | Shortlist | [30] | |
Samantha Nock | A Family of Dreamers | |||
Bradley Peters | Sonnets from a Cell | |||
Cathy Stonehouse | Dream House |
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