2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Holy Wild
Gwen Benaway
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Wayside Sang
Cecily Nicholson
2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
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
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
My Shoes Are Killing Me
Robyn Sarah
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Lake of Two Mountains
Arleen Paré
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
North End Love Songs
Katherena Vermette
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Monkey Ranch
Julie Bruck
2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Killdeer
Phil Hall
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Boxing the Compass
Richard Greene
2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Fly in Autumn
David Zieroth
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
More to Keep Us Warm
Jacob Scheier
2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
All Our Wonder Unavenged
Don Domanski
2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Stumbling in the Bloom
John Pass
2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Processional
Anne Compton
2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida
Roo Borson
2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Kill-site
Tim Lilburn
2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Surrender
Roy Miki
2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke
2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Another Gravity
Don McKay
1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
Jan Zwicky
1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
White Stone: The Alice Poems
Stephanie Bolster
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
E.D. Blodgett
1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Voice
Anne Szumigalski
1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Cantos from a Small Room
Robert Hilles
1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Forests of the Medieval World
Don Coles
1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Inventing the Hawk
Lorna Crozier
1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Night Field
Don McKay
1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
No Time
Margaret Avison
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Word for Sand
Heather Spears
1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Furious
Erin Mouré
1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Afterworlds
Gwendolyn MacEwen
1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
Al Purdy
1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Waiting for Saskatchewan
Fred Wah
1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Celestial Navigation
Paulette Jiles
1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Settlements
David Donnell
1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
Phyllis Webb
1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
F.R. Scott
1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
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
1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
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
1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Top Soil
Joe Rosenblatt
1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Island Means Minago
Milton Acorn
1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Fire on Stone
Ralph Gustafson
1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Lions at her Face
Miriam Mandel
1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Civil Elegies and Other Poems
Dennis Lee
1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Selected Poems
John Glassco
1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid
bpNichol
1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Shadow-Maker
Gwendolyn MacEwen
1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Selected Poems 1956-68**
Leonard Cohen
1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Bread, Wine and Salt
Alden Nowlan
1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood
1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Cariboo Horses
Al Purdy
1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Colour of the Times
Raymond Souster
1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Acis in Oxford
Robert Finch
1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Winter Sun
Margaret Avison
1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Red Carpet for the Sun
Irving Layton
1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
A Suit of Nettles
James Reaney
1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Boatman
Jay Macpherson
1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
A Window on the North
Robert A.D. Ford
1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Friday’s Child
Wilfred Watson
1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Metal and the Flower
P.K. Page
1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Net and the Sword
Douglas LePan
1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Towards the Last Spike
E.J. Pratt
1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Mulgrave Road
Charles Bruce
1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Of Time and the Lover
James Wreford Watson
1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Red Heart
James Reaney
1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Rocking Chair and Other Poems
A.M. Klein
1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Poems for People
Dorothy Livesay
1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Poems
Robert Finch
1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Now is Time
Earle Birney
1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Day and Night
Dorothy Livesay
1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
News of the Phoenix
A.J.M. Smith
1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
David and Other Poems
Earle Birney
1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Calling Adventurers
Anne Marriott
1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Brébeuf and His Brethren
E.J. Pratt
1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Under the Sun
Arthur S. Bourinot
1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
By Stubborn Stars
Kenneth Leslie
1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
