2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Holy Wild Gwen Benaway](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581010877-4737-image-3.jpg)
Holy Wild
Gwen Benaway
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Wayside Sang Cecily Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580941933-60299-image-3.jpg)
Wayside Sang
Cecily Nicholson
2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood Richard Harrison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581060344-7917-image-3.jpg)
On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood
Richard Harrison
2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Waking Comes Late Steven Heighton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942879-60377-image-3.jpg)
The Waking Comes Late
Steven Heighton
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![My Shoes Are Killing Me Robyn Sarah](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580977259-3389-image-3.jpg)
My Shoes Are Killing Me
Robyn Sarah
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Lake of Two Mountains Arleen Paré](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046945-7444-image-3.jpg)
Lake of Two Mountains
Arleen Paré
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580975295-3227-image-3.jpg)
North End Love Songs
Katherena Vermette
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Monkey Ranch Julie Bruck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978700-3508-image-3.jpg)
Monkey Ranch
Julie Bruck
2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Killdeer Phil Hall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581061265-7993-image-3.jpg)
Killdeer
Phil Hall
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Boxing the Compass Richard Greene](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580869277-518-image-3.jpg)
Boxing the Compass
Richard Greene
2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Fly in Autumn David Zieroth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581019161-5418-image-3.jpg)
The Fly in Autumn
David Zieroth
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![More to Keep Us Warm Jacob Scheier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978361-3480-image-3.jpg)
More to Keep Us Warm
Jacob Scheier
2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![All Our Wonder Unavenged Don Domanski](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580876720-1133-image-3.jpg)
All Our Wonder Unavenged
Don Domanski
2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Stumbling in the Bloom John Pass](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581039973-7135-image-3.jpg)
Stumbling in the Bloom
John Pass
2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Processional Anne Compton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581059872-7878-image-3.jpg)
Processional
Anne Compton
2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida Roo Borson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581039997-7137-image-3.jpg)
Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida
Roo Borson
2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Kill-site Tim Lilburn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581061277-7994-image-3.jpg)
Kill-site
Tim Lilburn
2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Surrender Roy Miki](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581059070-7822-image-3.jpg)
Surrender
Roy Miki
2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Execution Poems George Elliott Clarke](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581022010-5653-image-3.jpg)
Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke
2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Another Gravity Don McKay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580874966-988-image-3.jpg)
Another Gravity
Don McKay
1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Songs for Relinquishing the Earth Jan Zwicky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580958587-1884-image-3.jpg)
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
Jan Zwicky
1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![White Stone: The Alice Poems Stephanie Bolster](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580940129-60150-image-3.jpg)
White Stone: The Alice Poems
Stephanie Bolster
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Land to Light On Dionne Brand](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046848-7436-image-3.jpg)
Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano E.D. Blodgett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580878910-1314-image-3.jpg)
Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
E.D. Blodgett
1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Voice Anne Szumigalski](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581058476-7773-image-3.jpg)
Voice
Anne Szumigalski
1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Cantos from a Small Room Robert Hilles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581064137-8230-image-3.jpg)
Cantos from a Small Room
Robert Hilles
1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Forests of the Medieval World Don Coles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062149-8066-image-3.jpg)
Forests of the Medieval World
Don Coles
1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Inventing the Hawk Lorna Crozier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049950-7687-image-3.jpg)
Inventing the Hawk
Lorna Crozier
1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Night Field Don McKay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Night Field
Don McKay
1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![No Time Margaret Avison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581060368-7919-image-3.jpg)
No Time
Margaret Avison
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Word for Sand Heather Spears](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580938343-60002-image-3.jpg)
The Word for Sand
Heather Spears
1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Furious Erin Mouré](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581017626-5291-image-3.jpg)
Furious
Erin Mouré
1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Afterworlds Gwendolyn MacEwen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580877531-1200-image-3.jpg)
Afterworlds
Gwendolyn MacEwen
1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Collected Poems of Al Purdy Al Purdy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581037664-6945-image-3.jpg)
The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
Al Purdy
1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Waiting for Saskatchewan Fred Wah](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942952-60383-image-3.jpg)
Waiting for Saskatchewan
Fred Wah
1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Celestial Navigation Paulette Jiles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581034988-6724-image-3.jpg)
Celestial Navigation
Paulette Jiles
1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Settlements David Donnell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581063010-8137-image-3.jpg)
Settlements
David Donnell
1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Vision Tree: Selected Poems Phyllis Webb](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580962113-2175-image-3.jpg)
The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
Phyllis Webb
1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott F.R. Scott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581045878-7359-image-3.jpg)
The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
F.R. Scott
1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![McAlmon's Chinese Opera Stephen Scobie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
McAlmon’s Chinese Opera
Stephen Scobie
1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do Michael Ondaatje](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do
Michael Ondaatje
1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Poems New and Selected Patrick Lane](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Poems New and Selected
Patrick Lane
1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth D.G. Jones](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth
D.G. Jones
1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Top Soil Joe Rosenblatt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581058804-7800-image-3.jpg)
Top Soil
Joe Rosenblatt
1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Island Means Minago Milton Acorn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Island Means Minago
Milton Acorn
1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Fire on Stone Ralph Gustafson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Fire on Stone
Ralph Gustafson
1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Lions at her Face Miriam Mandel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581040299-7162-image-3.jpg)
Lions at her Face
Miriam Mandel
1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Civil Elegies and Other Poems Dennis Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581033324-6587-image-3.jpg)
Civil Elegies and Other Poems
Dennis Lee
1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Selected Poems John Glassco](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Selected Poems
John Glassco
1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid bpNichol](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062574-8101-image-3.jpg)
The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid
bpNichol
1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Shadow-Maker Gwendolyn MacEwen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580961556-2129-image-3.jpg)
The Shadow-Maker
Gwendolyn MacEwen
1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Selected Poems 1956-68** Leonard Cohen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581045709-7345-image-3.jpg)
Selected Poems 1956-68**
Leonard Cohen
1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Bread, Wine and Salt Alden Nowlan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580869131-506-image-3.jpg)
Bread, Wine and Salt
Alden Nowlan
1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Circle Game Margaret Atwood](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581033615-6611-image-3.jpg)
The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood
1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Cariboo Horses Al Purdy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Cariboo Horses
Al Purdy
1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Colour of the Times Raymond Souster](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Colour of the Times
Raymond Souster
1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Acis in Oxford Robert Finch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580878100-1247-image-3.jpg)
Acis in Oxford
Robert Finch
1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Winter Sun Margaret Avison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Winter Sun
Margaret Avison
1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Red Carpet for the Sun Irving Layton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Red Carpet for the Sun
Irving Layton
1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![A Suit of Nettles James Reaney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580847324-58939-image-3.jpg)
A Suit of Nettles
James Reaney
1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Boatman Jay Macpherson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Boatman
Jay Macpherson
1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![A Window on the North Robert A.D. Ford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-2-image-3.jpg)
A Window on the North
Robert A.D. Ford
1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Friday's Child Wilfred Watson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Friday’s Child
Wilfred Watson
1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Metal and the Flower P.K. Page](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Metal and the Flower
P.K. Page
1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Net and the Sword Douglas LePan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Net and the Sword
Douglas LePan
1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Towards the Last Spike E.J. Pratt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581061410-8005-image-3.jpg)
Towards the Last Spike
E.J. Pratt
1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Mulgrave Road Charles Bruce](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580977622-3419-image-3.jpg)
The Mulgrave Road
Charles Bruce
1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Of Time and the Lover James Wreford Watson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Of Time and the Lover
James Wreford Watson
1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Red Heart James Reaney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581059739-7867-image-3.jpg)
The Red Heart
James Reaney
1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Rocking Chair and Other Poems A.M. Klein](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Rocking Chair and Other Poems
A.M. Klein
1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Poems for People Dorothy Livesay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Poems for People
Dorothy Livesay
1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Poems Robert Finch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581064633-8271-image-3.jpg)
Poems
Robert Finch
1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Now is Time Earle Birney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Now is Time
Earle Birney
1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Day and Night Dorothy Livesay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581064766-8282-image-3.jpg)
Day and Night
Dorothy Livesay
1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![News of the Phoenix A.J.M. Smith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581060417-7923-image-3.jpg)
News of the Phoenix
A.J.M. Smith
1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![David and Other Poems Earle Birney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046630-7418-image-3.jpg)
David and Other Poems
Earle Birney
1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Calling Adventurers Anne Marriott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-2-image-3.jpg)
Calling Adventurers
Anne Marriott
1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Brébeuf and His Brethren E.J. Pratt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580878717-1298-image-3.jpg)
Brébeuf and His Brethren
E.J. Pratt
1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![Under the Sun Arthur S. Bourinot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-3-image-3.jpg)
Under the Sun
Arthur S. Bourinot
1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![By Stubborn Stars Kenneth Leslie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
By Stubborn Stars
Kenneth Leslie
1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
![The Fable of the Goats E.J. Pratt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062295-8078-image-3.jpg)