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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.

Nominees and winners

YearAuthorTitleRef.
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
2024 Bradley Peters Sonnets from a Cell [22]
Roxanna Bennett Uncomfortability [23]
Brandi Bird The All + Flesh
D. M. Bradford Bottom Rail on Top
Wanda John-Kehewin Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân
T. Liem Slows: Twice

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