Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

1945 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerNow is TimeEarle Birney...Amazon

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThere's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to DoMichael OndaatjeSelected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistA Man to Marry, a Man to BurySusan MusgraveAmazonEmpire, York StreetErin MouréAmazon

1947 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerPoems for PeopleDorothy Livesay...Amazon

1948 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Rocking Chair and Other PoemsA.M. Klein...Amazon

1949 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Red HeartJames Reaney...Amazon

1950 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerOf Time and the LoverJames Wreford Watson...Amazon

1951 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Mulgrave RoadCharles BruceThe poetry of Charles Bruce resonates with the sights and sounds of the Maritimes. Unlike the modernist poets of his time, Bruce embraced rural settings, tactile imagery, structural simplicity and direct language. The Essential Charles Bruce introduces the...Amazon

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerTowards the Last SpikeE.J. PrattThe purpose of The Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt is to introduce Pratts poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratts poems chosen o...Amazon

1953 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Net and the SwordDouglas LePan...Amazon

1954 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Metal and the FlowerP.K. Page...Amazon