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.^[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[]

Year	Winner	Nominated
2013	A. F. Moritz, The New Measures[2]	, Hummingbird Nancy Holmes, The Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems , Wayworn Wooden Floors , Between Dusk and Night Pamela Porter, no ordinary place
2014	Anne Compton, Alongside[1]	, Seldom Seen Road[1] , Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects[1] , Rebel Women[1] John Terpstra, Brilliant Falls[1] Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain[1]
2015	Patrick Lane, Washita	, 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[3]	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[4]	Barry Dempster, Disturbing the Buddha , silent sister: the mastectomy poems , Serpentine Loop Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late , Après Satie – For Two and Four Hands
2018	Karen Enns, Cloud Physics[5]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World , 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[6]	Adam Dickinson, Anatomic Alice Major, Welcome to the Anthropocene , Tar Swan , Rooster, Dog, Crow Kim Trainor, Ledi
2020	Roxanna Bennett, Unmeaningable[7]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms Sonnet L'Abbé, Sonnet's Shakespeare , Drolleries Shane Neilson, New Brunswick , Crow Gulch
2021	Ian Williams, Word Problems[8]	Sadiqa de Meijer, The Outer Wards Klara du Plessis, Hell Light Flesh , The Fool , Burning Province John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat

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