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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Margaret Avison | No Time |
| Dionne Brand | No Language Is Neutral | |
| Patrick Lane | Winter | |
| 1991 | Don McKay | Night Field |
| Don Domanski | Wolf-Ladder | |
| Judith Fitzgerald | Rapturous Chronicles | |
| Patrick Lane | Mortal Remains | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Aide-Mémoire | ||
| 2009 | David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn |
| David McFadden | Be Calm, Honey | |
| Philip Kevin Paul | Little Hunger | |
| Sina Queyras | Expressway | |
| Carmine Starnino | This Way Out |
2010s[]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic | ||
| Fieldnotes, A Forensic | ||
| Garry Thomas Morse | Discovery Passages | |
| Susan Musgrave | Origami Dove | |
| 2012 | Julie Bruck | Monkey Ranch |
| David McGimpsey | Li'l Bastard | |
| A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | |
| Lisa Pasold | Any Bright Horse | |
| Sailing to Babylon | ||
| 2013 | Katherena Vermette[2] | North End Love Songs |
| Austin Clarke[3] | Where the Sun Shines Best | |
| Adam Dickinson[3] | The Polymers | |
| Don Domanski[3] | Bite Down Little Whisper | |
| Russell Thornton[3] | Birds, Metal, Stones & Rain | |
| 2014 | Arleen Paré[4] | Lake of Two Mountains |
| 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 |
| Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | |
| Liz Howard | Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | |
| M. Travis Lane | Crossover | |
| Patrick Lane | Washita | |
| 2016 | Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late |
| 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 |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | |
| Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | |
| Joshua Mensch | Because: A Lyric Memoir | |
| Jason Stefanik | Night Became Years | |
| 2019 | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild |
| 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 | [5] |
| Oana Avasilichioaei | Eight Track | [6] | |
| Donna Kane | Orrery | ||
| Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | ||
| Sachiko Murakami | Render | ||
| 2021 | Tolu Oloruntoba | The Junta of Happenstance | [7] |
| Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | [8] | |
| Stephen Collis | A History of the Theories of Rain | ||
| Hoa Nguyen | A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure | ||
| Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue |
References[]
- ^ Governor General's Literary Awards at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries". Toronto Star, November 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
- ^ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
- ^ "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.
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- Canadian poetry awards
- Awards established in 1981
- 1981 establishments in Canada
- Governor General's Awards
- English-language literary awards