Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
1986	Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel	Anne Marriott, Letters for Some Islands P. K. Page, The Glass Air
1987	Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers	John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro
1988	Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room	Norm Sibum, Eight Poems Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash
1989	Charles Lillard, Circling North	Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star bill bissett, what we have
1990	Victoria Walker, Suitcase	Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
1991	Jeff Derksen, Down Time	bill bissett, Hard 2 beleev Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire
1992	Barry McKinnon, Pulplog	John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis Michael Turner, Company Town
1993	bill bissett, Inkorrect Thots	Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel? Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
1994	Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel	Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected Howard White, Ghost in the Gears
1995	Linda Rogers, Hard Candy	Aaron Bushkowsky, Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars
1996	Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce	Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time
1997	Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings	Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark
1998	Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth	Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake
1999	David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last	Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
2000	Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go	Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm Susan Musgrave, Things That Keep and Do Not Change D.C. Reid, Love and Other Things That Hurt Tom Wayman, The Colours of the Forest
2001	Don McKay, Another Gravity	George Bowering, His Life Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain John Pass, Water Stair Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target
2002	Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine	Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden
2003	bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes / text bites	Colin Browne, Ground Water Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup
2004	Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill	Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain
2005	Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing	Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart Patrick Lane, Go Leaving D.C. Reid, The Hunger
2006	Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking	Stephen Collis, Anarchive Jordan Scott, Silt George Sipos, Anything But the Moon Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
2007	Don McKay, Strike / Slip	Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria Terence Young, Moving Day
2008	Rita Wong, Forage	George McWhirter, The Incorrection Christopher Patton, Ox Arleen Paré, Paper Trail Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography
2009	Daphne Marlatt, The Given	Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem Karen Hofmann, Water Strider
2010	Fred Wah, Is a Door	Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn Miranda Pearson, Harbour Gillian Jerome, Red Nest
2011	Stephen Collis, On the Material	Ken Belford, Decompositions Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey Eve Joseph, The Secret Signature of Things
2012	John Pass, Crawlspace	Patrick Lane, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane Susan McCaslin, Demeter Goes Skydiving Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages Sharon Thesen, Oyama Pink Shale
2013	Sarah de Leeuw, Geographies of a Lover	Colin Browne, The Properties Roger Farr, IKMQ Evelyn Lau, A Grain of Rice Patricia Young, Night-Eater
2014	Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps	Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters Jennica Harper, Wood Renée Sarojini Saklikar, children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
2015	Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars	Robert Budde, Dreamland Theatre Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On Jen Currin, School Patrick Lane, Washita
2016	Raoul Fernandes, Transmitter and Receiver	Ali Blythe, Twoism Amber Dawn, Where the words end and my body begins Miranda Pearson, The Fire Extinguisher Jeff Steudel, Foreign Park
2017	Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You	Anne Fleming, poemw Juliane Okot Bitek, 100 Days Rob Taylor, The News Richard Therrien, Sleeping in Tall Grass
2018	Mercedes Eng, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes	Rhonda Ganz, Frequent, small loads of laundry Jónína Kirton, An Honest Woman Julie Paul, The Rules of the Kingdom Onjana Yawnghwe, Fragments, Desire
2019	Laisha Rosnau, Our Familiar Hunger	Fred Wah and Rita Wong, beholden, a poem as long as the river Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Port of Being Onjana Yawnghwe, The Small Way Eve Joseph, Quarrels
2020	Chantal Gibson, How She Read	Ali Blythe, Hymnswitch Kayla Czaga, Dunk Tank Joseph A. Dandurand, SH:LAM (The Doctor) Sonnet L’Abbé, Sonnet's Shakespeare
2021	Michael Prior, Burning Province	Joseph A. Dandurand, The East Side of It All Junie Désil, eat salt | gaze at the ocean Valerie Mason-John, I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin Fred Wah, Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170
2021	TBA September 24, 2022	Jenny Boychuk, Antonyms for Daughter Henry Doyle, No Shelter shauna paull, blue gait Matt Rader, Ghosthawk Isabella Wang, Pebble Swing

See also

• Canadian poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

External links

• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, official website
• BC Book Prizes Web site