The Raymond Souster Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets to a book judged as the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet in the previous year. [1]
The award was presented for the first time in 2013, [2] and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2013 | A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | [2] |
John Wall Barger | Hummingbird | [3] | |
Nancy Holmes | The Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems | ||
Mark Lavorato | Wayworn Wooden Floors | ||
Emily McGiffin | Between Dusk and Night | ||
Pamela Porter | no ordinary place | ||
2014 | Anne Compton | Alongside | [1] |
Jen Butler | Seldom Seen Road | [1] | |
Catherine Graham | Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects | ||
Vancy Kasper | Rebel Women | ||
John Terpstra | Brilliant Falls | ||
Russell Thornton | Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | ||
2015 | Patrick Lane | Washita | [4] |
Catherine Kidd | Hyena Subpoena | [5] | |
Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | ||
Laisha Rosnau | Pluck | ||
Adam Sol | Complicity | ||
Rachel Zolf | Janey's Arcadia | ||
2016 | Lorna Crozier | The Wrong Cat | [6] |
Marilyn Dumont | The Pemmican Eaters | [7] | |
Maureen Hynes | The Poison Colour | ||
Alice Major | Standard Candles | ||
Bruce Meyer | The Arrow of Time | ||
Armand Garnet Ruffo | The Thunderbird Poems | ||
2017 | Louise Bernice Halfe | Burning in this Midnight Dream | [8] |
Barry Dempster | Disturbing the Buddha | [9] | |
Beth Everest | silent sister: the mastectomy poems | ||
Elee Kraljii Gardiner | Serpentine Loop | ||
Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late | ||
Dean Steadman | Après Satie – For Two and Four Hands | ||
2018 | Karen Enns | Cloud Physics | [10] |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | [11] | |
Puneet Dutt | The Better Monsters | ||
Benjamin Hertwig | Slow War | ||
Cornelia Hoogland | Trailer Park Elegy | ||
Canisia Lubrin | Voodoo Hypothesis | ||
2019 | Stevie Howell | I left nothing inside on purpose | [12] |
Adam Dickinson | Anatomic | [13] | |
Alice Major | Welcome to the Anthropocene | ||
David Martin | Tar Swan | ||
Jim Nason | Rooster, Dog, Crow | ||
Kim Trainor | Ledi | ||
2020 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | [14] |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | NDN Coping Mechanisms | [15] | |
Sonnet L'Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare | ||
Cassidy McFadzean | Drolleries | ||
Shane Neilson | New Brunswick | ||
Douglas Walbourne-Gough | Crow Gulch | ||
2021 | Ian Williams | Word Problems | [16] |
Sadiqa de Meijer | The Outer Wards | [17] | |
Klara du Plessis | Hell Light Flesh | ||
Jessie Jones | The Fool | ||
Michael Prior | Burning Province | ||
John Elizabeth Stintzi | Junebat | ||
2022 | Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | [18] |
Síle Englert | The Lost Time Accidents | [19] | |
Louise Bernice Halfe | awâsis – kinky and dishevelled | ||
Leah Horlick | Moldovan Hotel | ||
D. A. Lockhart | Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli | ||
Adam Sol | Broken Dawn Blessings | ||
John Wall Barger | Resurrection Fail | ||
2023 | Adebe DeRango-Adem | Vox Humana | [20] |
Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome | [21] | |
Alycia Pirmohamed | Another Way to Split Water | ||
Olive Senior | Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems | ||
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Grappling Hook | ||
Matthew James Weigel | Whitemud Walking |
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