Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Holy Wild Gwen Benaway Amazon 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Wayside Sang Cecily Nicholson Amazon 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood Richard Harrison Amazon 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Waking Comes Late Steven Heighton Amazon 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry My Shoes Are Killing Me Robyn Sarah Amazon 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Lake of Two Mountains Arleen Paré Amazon 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette Amazon 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Monkey Ranch Julie Bruck Amazon 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Killdeer Phil Hall Amazon 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Boxing the Compass Richard Greene Amazon 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Fly in Autumn David Zieroth Amazon 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry More to Keep Us Warm Jacob Scheier Amazon 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry All Our Wonder Unavenged Don Domanski Amazon 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Stumbling in the Bloom John Pass Amazon 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Processional Anne Compton Amazon 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida Roo Borson Amazon 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Kill-site Tim Lilburn Amazon 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Surrender Roy Miki Amazon 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Execution Poems George Elliott Clarke Amazon 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Another Gravity Don McKay Amazon 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Songs for Relinquishing the Earth Jan Zwicky Amazon 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry White Stone: The Alice Poems Stephanie Bolster Amazon 1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Land to Light On Dionne Brand Amazon 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano E.D. Blodgett Amazon 1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Voice Anne Szumigalski Amazon 1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Cantos from a Small Room Robert Hilles Amazon 1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Forests of the Medieval World Don Coles Amazon 1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Inventing the Hawk Lorna Crozier Amazon 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Night Field Don McKay Amazon 1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry No Time Margaret Avison Amazon 1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Word for Sand Heather Spears Amazon 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Furious Erin Mouré Amazon 1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Afterworlds Gwendolyn MacEwen Amazon 1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Collected Poems of Al Purdy Al Purdy Amazon 1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Waiting for Saskatchewan Fred Wah Amazon 1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Celestial Navigation Paulette Jiles Amazon 1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Settlements David Donnell Amazon 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Vision Tree: Selected Poems Phyllis Webb Amazon 1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott F.R. Scott Amazon 1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry McAlmon’s Chinese Opera Stephen Scobie Amazon 1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do Michael Ondaatje Amazon 1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Poems New and Selected Patrick Lane Amazon 1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth D.G. Jones Amazon 1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Top Soil Joe Rosenblatt Amazon 1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Island Means Minago Milton Acorn Amazon 1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Fire on Stone Ralph Gustafson Amazon 1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Lions at her Face Miriam Mandel Amazon 1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Civil Elegies and Other Poems Dennis Lee Amazon 1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Selected Poems John Glassco Amazon 1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid bpNichol Amazon 1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Shadow-Maker Gwendolyn MacEwen Amazon 1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Selected Poems 1956-68** Leonard Cohen Amazon 1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Bread, Wine and Salt Alden Nowlan Amazon 1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Circle Game Margaret Atwood Amazon 1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Cariboo Horses Al Purdy Amazon 1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Colour of the Times Raymond Souster Amazon 1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Acis in Oxford Robert Finch Amazon 1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winter Sun Margaret Avison Amazon 1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Red Carpet for the Sun Irving Layton Amazon 1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry A Suit of Nettles James Reaney Amazon 1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Boatman Jay Macpherson Amazon 1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry A Window on the North Robert A.D. Ford Amazon 1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Friday’s Child Wilfred Watson Amazon 1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Metal and the Flower P.K. Page Amazon 1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Net and the Sword Douglas LePan Amazon 1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Towards the Last Spike E.J. Pratt Amazon 1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Mulgrave Road Charles Bruce Amazon 1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Of Time and the Lover James Wreford Watson Amazon 1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Red Heart James Reaney Amazon 1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Rocking Chair and Other Poems A.M. Klein Amazon 1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Poems for People Dorothy Livesay Amazon 1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Poems Robert Finch Amazon 1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Now is Time Earle Birney Amazon 1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Day and Night Dorothy Livesay Amazon 1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry News of the Phoenix A.J.M. Smith Amazon 1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry David and Other Poems Earle Birney Amazon 1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Calling Adventurers Anne Marriott Amazon 1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Brébeuf and His Brethren E.J. Pratt Amazon 1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Under the Sun Arthur S. Bourinot Amazon 1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry By Stubborn Stars Kenneth Leslie Amazon 1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry The Fable of the Goats E.J. Pratt Amazon