Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

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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]

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Winners and nominees

1980s

YearAuthorTitleRef.
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

1990s

YearAuthorTitleRef.
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

2000s

YearAuthorTitleRef.
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

2010s

YearAuthorTitleRef.
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 #

2020s

YearAuthorTitleRef
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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