The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.
Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
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1998 | Carmelita McGrath | To the New World | [1] |
Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave | [2] | |
1999 | John Steffler | That Night We Were Ravenous | [3] |
Don Domanski | Parish of the Physic Moon | [4] | |
Robin McGrath | Escaped Domestics |
Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
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2000 | Ken Babstock | Mean | [5] |
Herménégilde Chiasson (tr. Jo-Anne Elder, Fred Cogswell) | Climates | [6] | |
George Elliott Clarke | Beatrice Chancy | ||
2001 | Anne Simpson | Light Falls Through You | [7] |
Douglas Burnet Smith | The Killed | [8] | |
John MacKenzie | Sledgehammer and Other Poems | ||
2002 | M. Travis Lane | Keeping Afloat | [9] |
Herménégilde Chiasson | Conversations | [10] | |
Patrick Warner | All Manner of Misunderstanding | ||
2003 | Anne Compton | Opening the Island | [11] |
Brian Bartlett | The Afterlife of Trees | [12] | |
Robert Moore | So Rarely in Our Skins | ||
2004 | Brian Bartlett | Wanting the Day | [13] |
Jill MacLean | The Brevity of Red | [14] | |
Sue Sinclair | Mortal Arguments | ||
2005 | David Helwig | The Year One | [15] |
Susan Goyette | Undone | [16] | |
John Smith | Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove | ||
2006 | Anne Compton | Processional | [17] |
Robin McGrath | Covenant of Salt | [18] | |
Harry Thurston | A Ship Portrait | ||
2007 | Steve McOrmond | Primer on the Hereafter | |
Mary Dalton | Red Ledger | ||
Peter Sanger | Aiken Drum | ||
2008 | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged | [19] |
George Murray | The Rush to Here | [20] | |
Anne Simpson | Quick | ||
2009 | Brent MacLaine | Shades of Green | |
Sue Sinclair | Sector | ||
Alan R. Wilson | Sky Atlas |
Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
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2010 | Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen | Lean-To | [21] |
Anne Compton | Asking Questions Indoors and Out | [22] | |
Zachariah Wells | Track & Trace | ||
2011 | John Steffler | Lookout | |
Douglas Burnet Smith | Learning to Count | [23] | |
Johanna Skibsrud | I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being | ||
2012 | Susan Goyette | outskirts | [24] |
Warren Heiti | Hydrologos | [25] | |
Anne Simpson | Is | ||
2013 | Lesley Choyce | I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything | [26] |
Carole Glasser Langille | Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems | [27] | |
George Murray | Whiteout | ||
2014 | Don Domanski | Bite Down Little Whisper | [28] |
Mary Dalton | Hooking | [29] | |
Susan Goyette | Ocean | ||
2015 | Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | [30] |
Brian Bartlett | Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar | [31] | |
Sylvia Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You | ||
2016 | Susan Goyette | The Brief Reinacarnation of a Girl | [32] |
Phillip Crymble | Not Even Laughter | [33] | |
John Wall Barger | The Book of Festus | ||
2017 | Jennifer Houle | The Back Channels | [34] |
Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House | [35] | |
Patrick Woodcock | You Can't Bury Them All | ||
2018 | Julia McCarthy | All the Names Between | [36] |
Allan Cooper | Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us | [37] | |
Alison Dyer | I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game | ||
2019 | Allison Smith | This Kind of Thinking Does No Good | [38] |
Basma Kavanagh | Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots | [39] | |
Annick MacAskill | No Meeting Without Body |
Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
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2020 | Lucas Crawford | Belated Bris of the Brainsick | [40] |
Tammy Armstrong | Year of the Metal Rabbit | [41] | |
Anne Compton | Smallholding | ||
2021 | Afua Cooper | Black Matters | [42] |
David Huebert | Humanimus | ||
shalan joudry | Waking Ground | ||
2022 | Alyda Faber | Poisonous If Eaten Raw | [43] |
Triny Finlay | Myself a Paperclip | [44] | |
Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue | ||
2023 | Nanci Lee | Hsin | [45] |
Luke Hathaway | The Affirmations | [46] | |
Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight |
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