This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided. [1]
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1981 | F. R. Scott | The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott | [2] |
Alfred Bailey | Miramichi Lightning: Collected Poems | ||
Barry McKinnon | The The | ||
1982 | Phyllis Webb | The Vision Tree: Selected Poems | [3] |
Robert Bringhurst | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982 | [4] | |
Barry Dempster | Fables for Isolated Men | ||
Diane Keating | No Birds or Flowers | ||
1983 | David Donnell | Settlements | [5] |
Christopher Dewdney | Predators of the Adoration: Selected Poems 1972-82 | [6] | |
Don McKay | Birding, or Desire | ||
Anne Szumigalski | Doctrine of Signatures | ||
1984 | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | [7] |
Roo Borson | The Whole Night, Coming Home | [8] | |
Marilyn Bowering | The Sunday Before Winter | ||
David McFadden | The Art of Darkness | ||
Sharon Thesen | Confabulations | ||
Peter van Toorn | Mountain Tea | ||
1985 | Fred Wah | Waiting for Saskatchewan | [9] |
Lorna Crozier | The Garden Going on Without Us | [10] | |
Richard Lush | A Manual for Lying Down | ||
Anne Szumigalski | Instar | ||
1986 | Al Purdy | The Collected Poems of Al Purdy | [11] |
Christopher Dewdney | The Immaculate Perception | [12] | |
John Newlove | The Night the Dog Smiled | ||
1987 | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Afterworlds | [13] |
Di Brandt | Questions I Asked My Mother | [14] | |
Roy Kiyooka | Pear Tree Pomes | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Beginning of the Long Dash | ||
1988 | Erín Moure | Furious | [15] |
Lorna Crozier | Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence | [16] | |
Christopher Dewdney | Radiant Inventory | ||
David McFadden | Gypsy Guitar | ||
Peter Dale Scott | Coming to Jakarta | ||
1989 | Heather Spears | The Word for Sand | [17] |
Tim Lilburn | Tourist to Ecstasy | [18] | |
Stephen Scobie | Dunino |
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1990 | Margaret Avison | No Time | [19] |
Dionne Brand | No Language Is Neutral | [20] | |
Patrick Lane | Winter | ||
1991 | Don McKay | Night Field | [21] |
Don Domanski | Wolf-Ladder | [22] | |
Judith Fitzgerald | Rapturous Chronicles | ||
Patrick Lane | Mortal Remains | ||
Anne Michaels | Miner's Pond | ||
1992 | Lorna Crozier | Inventing the Hawk | [23] |
Evelyn Lau | Oedipal Dreams | [24] | |
Laura Lush | Hometown | ||
Steve McCaffery | Theory of Sediment | ||
Kathleen McCracken | Blue Light, Bay and College | ||
1993 | Don Coles | Forests of the Medieval World | [25] |
Claire Harris | Drawing Down a Daughter | [26] | |
Monty Reid | Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems | ||
Douglas Burnet Smith | Voices from a Farther Room | ||
Patricia Young | More Watery Still | ||
1994 | Robert Hilles | Cantos from a Small Room | [27] |
Robin Blaser | The Holy Forest | [28] | |
Polly Fleck | The Chinese Execution | ||
Monty Reid | Dog Sleeps | ||
1995 | Anne Szumigalski | Voice | [29] |
Roo Borson | Night Walk | [30] | |
Di Brandt | Jerusalem, Beloved | ||
Don Domanski | Stations of the Left Hand | ||
Steven Heighton | The Ecstasy of Skeptics | ||
1996 | E. D. Blodgett | Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano | [31] |
Elizabeth Brewster | Footnotes to the Book of Job | [32] | |
Crispin Elsted | Climate and the Affections | ||
Charles Lillard | Shadow Weather | ||
Erín Moure | Search Procedures | ||
1997 | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | [33] |
Marilyn Bowering | Autobiography | [34] | |
Patrick Friesen | A Broken Bowl | ||
Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave | ||
Don McKay | Apparatus | ||
1998 | Stephanie Bolster | White Stone: The Alice Poems | [35] |
Louise Bernice Halfe | Blue Marrow | [36] | |
Michael Ondaatje | Handwriting | ||
Lisa Robertson | Debbie: An Epic | ||
Kathy Shaidle | Lobotomy Magnificat | ||
1999 | Jan Zwicky | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | [37] |
Lynn Davies | The Bridge that Carries the Road | [38] | |
Susan Goyette | The True Names of Birds | ||
Richard Harrison | Big Breath of a Wish | ||
Terence Young | The Island in Winter |
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2000 | Don McKay | Another Gravity | [39] |
George Bowering | His Life | [40] | |
A. F. Moritz | Rest on the Flight into Egypt | ||
John Pass | Water Stair | ||
Patricia Young | Ruin and Beauty | ||
2001 | George Elliott Clarke | Execution Poems | [41] |
Anne Carson | Men in the Off Hours | [42] | |
Phil Hall | Trouble Sleeping | ||
Robert Kroetsch | The Hornbooks of Rita K. | ||
Steve McCaffery | Seven Pages Missing | ||
2002 | Roy Miki | Surrender | [43] |
Tammy Armstrong | Bogman's Music | [44] | |
Colin Browne | Ground Water | ||
Kathy Mac | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth | ||
Erín Moure | O Cidadán | ||
2003 | Tim Lilburn | Kill-site | [45] |
Tim Bowling | The Witness Ghost | [46] | |
Evan Jones | Nothing Fell Today But Rain | ||
Anne Simpson | Loop | ||
Tom Wayman | My Father's Cup | ||
2004 | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | [47] |
Tim Bowling | The Memory Orchard | [48] | |
David Manicom | The Burning Eaves | ||
John Terpstra | Disarmament | ||
Jan Zwicky | Robinson's Crossing | ||
2005 | Anne Compton | processional | [49] |
Barry Dempster | The Burning Alphabet | [50] | |
Erín Moure | Little Theatres | ||
W. H. New | Underwood Log | ||
Olive Senior | Over the Roofs of the World | ||
2006 | John Pass | Stumbling in the Bloom | [51] |
Ken Babstock | Airstream Land Yacht | [52] | |
Elizabeth Bachinsky | Home of Sudden Service | ||
Dionne Brand | Inventory | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Good Bacteria | ||
2007 | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged | [53] |
Margaret Atwood | The Door | [54] | |
Brian Henderson | Nerve Language | ||
Dennis Lee | Yesno | ||
Rob Winger | Muybridge's Horse | ||
2008 | Jacob Scheier | More to Keep Us Warm | [55] |
Weyman Chan | Noise from the Laundry | [56] | |
A. F. Moritz | The Sentinel | ||
Sachiko Murakami | The Invisibility Exhibit | ||
Ruth Roach Pierson | Aide-Mémoire | ||
2009 | David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn | [57] |
David McFadden | Be Calm, Honey | [58] | |
Philip Kevin Paul | Little Hunger | ||
Sina Queyras | Expressway | ||
Carmine Starnino | This Way Out |
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2010 | Richard Greene | Boxing the Compass | [59] |
Michael Harris | Circus | [60] | |
Daryl Hine | &: A Serial Poem | ||
Sandy Pool | Exploding into Night | ||
Melanie Siebert | Deepwater Vee | ||
2011 | Phil Hall | Killdeer | [61] |
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic | [62] | |
Kate Eichhorn | Fieldnotes, A Forensic | ||
Garry Thomas Morse | Discovery Passages | ||
Susan Musgrave | Origami Dove | ||
2012 | Julie Bruck | Monkey Ranch | [63] |
David McGimpsey | Li'l Bastard | [64] | |
A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | ||
Lisa Pasold | Any Bright Horse | ||
James Pollock | Sailing to Babylon | ||
2013 | Katherena Vermette | North End Love Songs | [65] |
Austin Clarke | Where the Sun Shines Best | [66] | |
Adam Dickinson | The Polymers | ||
Don Domanski | Bite Down Little Whisper | ||
Russell Thornton | Birds, Metal, Stones & Rain | ||
2014 | Arleen Paré | Lake of Two Mountains | [67] |
Julie Joosten | Light Light | [68] | |
Christopher Levenson | Night Vision | ||
Garth Martens | Prologue for the Age of Consequence | ||
Sadiqa de Meijer | Leaving Howe Island | ||
2015 | Robyn Sarah | My Shoes Are Killing Me | [69] |
Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | [70] | |
Liz Howard | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | ||
M. Travis Lane | Crossover | ||
Patrick Lane | Washita | ||
2016 | Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late | [71] |
Joe Denham | Regeneration Machine | [72] | |
Susan Holbrook | Throaty Wipes | ||
Garry Thomas Morse | Prairie Harbour | ||
Rachel Rose | Marry & Burn | ||
2017 | Richard Harrison | On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood | [73] |
Lorna Crozier | What the Soul Doesn't Want | [74] | |
Nora Gould | Selah | ||
Benjamin Hertwig | Slow War | ||
Julia McCarthy | All the Names Between | ||
2018 | Cecily Nicholson | Wayside Sang | [75] |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | [76] | |
Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | ||
Joshua Mensch | Because: A Lyric Memoir | ||
Jason Stefanik | Night Became Years | ||
2019 | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | [77] |
Julie Bruck | How to Avoid Huge Ships | [78] | |
Karen Houle | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology | ||
Catherine Hunter | St. Boniface Elegies | ||
Armand Garnet Ruffo | Treaty # |
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
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2020 | Anne Carson | Norma Jeane Baker of Troy | [79] |
Oana Avasilichioaei | Eight Track | [80] | |
Donna Kane | Orrery | ||
Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | ||
Sachiko Murakami | Render | ||
2021 | Tolu Oloruntoba | The Junta of Happenstance | [81] |
Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | [82] | |
Stephen Collis | A History of the Theories of Rain | ||
Hoa Nguyen | A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure | ||
Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue | ||
2022 | Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | [83] |
David Bradford | Dream of No One But Myself | [84] | |
Anne Carson | H of H Playbook | ||
Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome | ||
Avery Lake | Horrible Dance | ||
2023 | Hannah Green | Xanax Cowboy | [85] |
Robert Bringhurst | The Ridge | [86] | |
Conor Kerr | Old Gods | ||
Amy Ching-Yan Lam | Baby Book | ||
Susan Musgrave | Exculpatory Lilies | ||
2024 | Chimwemwe Undi | Scientific Marvel | [87] |
Brandi Bird | The All + Flesh | [88] | |
Bradley Peters | Sonnets from a Cell | ||
Bren Simmers | The Work | ||
Barbara Tran | Precedented Parenting |
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