Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
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]
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1981 | F. R. Scott | The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott | |
Alfred Bailey | Miramichi Lightning: Collected Poems | ||
Barry McKinnon | The The | ||
1982 | Phyllis Webb | The Vision Tree: Selected Poems | [2] |
Robert Bringhurst | The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982 | ||
Barry Dempster | Fables for Isolated Men | ||
Diane Keating | No Birds or Flowers | ||
1983 | David Donnell | Settlements | |
Christopher Dewdney | Predators of the Adoration: Selected Poems 1972-82 | ||
Don McKay | Birding, or Desire | ||
Anne Szumigalski | Doctrine of Signatures | ||
1984 | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | |
Roo Borson | The Whole Night, Coming Home | ||
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 | |
Lorna Crozier | The Garden Going on Without Us | ||
Richard Lush | A Manual for Lying Down | ||
Anne Szumigalski | Instar | ||
1986 | Al Purdy | The Collected Poems of Al Purdy | |
Christopher Dewdney | The Immaculate Perception | ||
John Newlove | The Night the Dog Smiled | ||
1987 | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Afterworlds | |
Di Brandt | Questions I Asked My Mother | ||
Roy Kiyooka | Pear Tree Pomes | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Beginning of the Long Dash | ||
1988 | Erín Moure | Furious | |
Lorna Crozier | Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence | ||
Christopher Dewdney | Radiant Inventory | ||
David McFadden | Gypsy Guitar | ||
Peter Dale Scott | Coming to Jakarta | ||
1989 | Heather Spears | The Word for Sand | |
Tim Lilburn | Tourist to Ecstasy | ||
Stephen Scobie | Dunino |
1990s
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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1990 | Margaret Avison | No Time | |
Dionne Brand | No Language Is Neutral | [3] | |
Patrick Lane | Winter | [4] | |
1991 | Don McKay | Night Field | |
Don Domanski | Wolf-Ladder | ||
Judith Fitzgerald | Rapturous Chronicles | ||
Patrick Lane | Mortal Remains | [4] | |
Anne Michaels | Miner's Pond | ||
1992 | Lorna Crozier | Inventing the Hawk | |
Evelyn Lau | Oedipal Dreams | ||
Laura Lush | Hometown | ||
Steve McCaffery | Theory of Sediment | ||
Kathleen McCracken | Blue Light, Bay and College | ||
1993 | Don Coles | Forests of the Medieval World | |
Claire Harris | Drawing Down a Daughter | ||
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 | |
Robin Blaser | The Holy Forest | ||
Polly Fleck | The Chinese Execution | ||
Monty Reid | Dog Sleeps | ||
1995 | Anne Szumigalski | Voice | |
Roo Borson | Night Walk | ||
Di Brandt | Jerusalem, Beloved | ||
Don Domanski | Stations of the Left Hand | ||
Steven Heighton | The Ecstasy of Skeptics | [5] | |
1996 | E. D. Blodgett | Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano | |
Elizabeth Brewster | Footnotes to the Book of Job | ||
Crispin Elsted | Climate and the Affections | ||
Charles Lillard | Shadow Weather | ||
Erín Moure | Search Procedures | ||
1997 | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | [3] |
Marilyn Bowering | Autobiography | ||
Patrick Friesen | A Broken Bowl | ||
Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave | ||
Don McKay | Apparatus | ||
1998 | Stephanie Bolster | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
Louise Bernice Halfe | Blue Marrow | ||
Michael Ondaatje | Handwriting | ||
Lisa Robertson | Debbie: An Epic | ||
Kathy Shaidle | Lobotomy Magnificat | ||
1999 | Jan Zwicky | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | |
Lynn Davies | The Bridge that Carries the Road | ||
Susan Goyette | The True Names of Birds | ||
Richard Harrison | Big Breath of a Wish | ||
Terence Young | The Island in Winter |
2000s
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2000 | Don McKay | Another Gravity | |
George Bowering | His Life | ||
A. F. Moritz | Rest on the Flight into Egypt | ||
John Pass | Water Stair | ||
Patricia Young | Ruin and Beauty | ||
2001 | George Elliott Clarke | Execution Poems | |
Anne Carson | Men in the Off Hours | ||
Phil Hall | Trouble Sleeping | ||
Robert Kroetsch | The Hornbooks of Rita K. | ||
Steve McCaffery | Seven Pages Missing | ||
2002 | Roy Miki | Surrender | |
Tammy Armstrong | Bogman's Music | ||
Colin Browne | Ground Water | ||
Kathy Mac | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth | ||
Erín Moure | O Cidadán | ||
2003 | Tim Lilburn | Kill-site | |
Tim Bowling | The Witness Ghost | ||
Evan Jones | Nothing Fell Today But Rain | ||
Anne Simpson | Loop | ||
Tom Wayman | My Father’s Cup | ||
2004 | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | |
Tim Bowling | The Memory Orchard | ||
David Manicom | The Burning Eaves | ||
John Terpstra | Disarmament | ||
Jan Zwicky | Robinson's Crossing | ||
2005 | Anne Compton | processional | [6] |
Barry Dempster | The Burning Alphabet | ||
Erín Moure | Little Theatres | ||
W. H. New | Underwood Log | ||
Olive Senior | Over the Roofs of the World | ||
2006 | John Pass | Stumbling in the Bloom | |
Ken Babstock | Airstream Land Yacht | ||
Elizabeth Bachinsky | Home of Sudden Service | ||
Dionne Brand | Inventory | [3] | |
Sharon Thesen | The Good Bacteria | ||
2007 | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged | |
Margaret Atwood | The Door | ||
Brian Henderson | Nerve Language | ||
Dennis Lee | Yesno | ||
Rob Winger | Muybridge's Horse | ||
2008 | Jacob Scheier | More to Keep Us Warm | |
Weyman Chan | Noise from the Laundry | ||
A. F. Moritz | The Sentinel | ||
Sachiko Murakami | The Invisibility Exhibit | ||
Ruth Roach Pierson | Aide-Mémoire | ||
2009 | David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn | [7] |
David McFadden | Be Calm, Honey | [8] | |
Philip Kevin Paul | Little Hunger | ||
Sina Queyras | Expressway | ||
Carmine Starnino | This Way Out |
2010s
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
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2010 | Richard Greene | Boxing the Compass | |
Michael Harris | Circus | ||
Daryl Hine | &: A Serial Poem | ||
Sandy Pool | Exploding into Night | ||
Melanie Siebert | Deepwater Vee | ||
2011 | Phil Hall | Killdeer | |
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic | ||
Kate Eichhorn | Fieldnotes, A Forensic | ||
Garry Thomas Morse | Discovery Passages | ||
Susan Musgrave | Origami Dove | ||
2012 | Julie Bruck | Monkey Ranch | [9][10] |
David McGimpsey | Li'l Bastard | ||
A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | ||
Lisa Pasold | Any Bright Horse | ||
James Pollock | Sailing to Babylon | ||
2013 | Katherena Vermette | North End Love Songs | [11][12][13] |
Austin Clarke | Where the Sun Shines Best | [14] | |
Adam Dickinson | The Polymers | [14] | |
Don Domanski | Bite Down Little Whisper | [14] | |
Russell Thornton | Birds, Metal, Stones & Rain | [14] | |
2014 | Arleen Paré | Lake of Two Mountains | [15][16][17] |
Julie Joosten | Light Light | ||
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 | [18] |
Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | ||
Liz Howard | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | ||
M. Travis Lane | Crossover | ||
Patrick Lane | Washita | [4] | |
2016 | Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late | [5][19] |
Joe Denham | Regeneration Machine | ||
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 | |
Lorna Crozier | What the Soul Doesn't Want | ||
Nora Gould | Selah | ||
Benjamin Hertwig | Slow War | ||
Julia McCarthy | All the Names Between | ||
2018 | Cecily Nicholson | Wayside Sang | [20] |
Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | ||
Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | [3] | |
Joshua Mensch | Because: A Lyric Memoir | ||
Jason Stefanik | Night Became Years | ||
2019 | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | [21] |
Julie Bruck | How to Avoid Huge Ships | ||
Karen Houle | The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology | ||
Catherine Hunter | St. Boniface Elegies | ||
Armand Garnet Ruffo | Treaty # |
2020s
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
2020 | Anne Carson | Norma Jeane Baker of Troy | [22] |
Oana Avasilichioaei | Eight Track | [23] | |
Donna Kane | Orrery | ||
Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | ||
Sachiko Murakami | Render | ||
2021 | Tolu Oloruntoba | The Junta of Happenstance | [24] |
Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | [25] | |
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 | [26] |
David Bradford | Dream of No One But Myself | [27] | |
Anne Carson | H of H Playbook | ||
Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome | ||
Avery Lake | Horrible Dance |
References
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- ^ a b "Rediscover: Steven Heighton". Shelf Awareness. May 6, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
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- ^ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
- ^ "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, May 4, 2021.
- ^ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
- ^ "Rachel Cusk among fiction finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards". Toronto Star, October 14, 2021.
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction". Toronto Star, November 16, 2022.
- ^ "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry". CBC Books, October 12, 2022.