Raymond Souster Award

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.

The award was presented for the first time in 2013, and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.

Nominees and winners

Year	Winner	Nominated
2013	A. F. Moritz, The New Measures	John Wall Barger, Hummingbird 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	Jen Butler, Seldom Seen Road 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	Catherine Kidd, Hyena Subpoena Susan Paddon, Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths Laisha Rosnau, Pluck Adam Sol, Complicity Rachel Zolf, Janey's Arcadia
2016	Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat	Marilyn Dumont, The Pemmican Eaters 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	Barry Dempster, Disturbing the Buddha 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	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World 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	Adam Dickinson, Anatomic Alice Major, Welcome to the Anthropocene David Martin, Tar Swan Jim Nason, Rooster, Dog, Crow Kim Trainor, Ledi