Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

1955 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerFriday's ChildWilfred Watson...Amazon

1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMcAlmon's Chinese OperaStephen Scobie...Amazon1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHigh March RoadDouglas LochheadAmazon

2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerSurrenderRoy MikiRoy Miki is a brilliant, articulate poet, whose intermixture of the lyrical with the political, the moment with history, and whose exploration of the formation of identity makes him among the most original and powerful of contemporary poets ......Amazon2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBogman’s MusicTammy ArmstrongAmazonGround WaterColin BrowneAmazonNail Builders Plan for Strength and GrowthKathy MacAmazonO CidadánErin MouréAmazon

2001 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerExecution PoemsGeorge Elliott ClarkeIn this startling work, Clarke reminds us of racism and poverty and of their brutal, tragic results, blurring the line between the perpetrator and the victim-a line wed prefer to be simple and clear....Amazon2001 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonSeven Pages MissingSteve McCafferyAmazonThe Hornbooks of Rita K.Robert KroetschAmazonTrouble SleepingPhil HallAmazon

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAnother GravityDon McKayFrom one of Canadas most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor Generals Award for Poetry. This book, Don McKays ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, coul...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHis LifeGeorge BoweringAmazonRest on the Flight into EgyptA.F. MoritzAmazonRuin and BeautyPatricia YoungAmazonWater StairJohn PassAmazon

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerSongs for Relinquishing the EarthJan ZwickySongs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwickys experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario. Songs for Relinquishing ...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBig Breath of a WishRichard HarrisonAmazonThe Bridge that Carries the RoadLynn DaviesAmazonThe Island in WinterTerence YoungAmazonThe True Names of BirdsSusan GoyetteAmazon

1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerWhite Stone: The Alice PoemsStephanie BolsterThese evocative poems move from the icon of Alice in Wonderland to the imagined figure of Alice out of Wonderland—on a Vancouver beach with the poet, underground with Persephone, in Memphis with Elvis. But first they explore the life of the real Alice Lidd...Amazon1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBlue MarrowLouise Bernice HalfeAmazonDebbie: An EpicLisa RobertsonAmazonHandwritingMichael OndaatjeAmazonLobotomy MagnificatKathy ShaidleAmazon

1997 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerLand to Light OnDionne BrandA classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, ...Amazon1997 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistA Broken BowlPatrick FriesenAmazonApparatusDon McKayAmazonAutobiographyMarilyn BoweringAmazonIn Cannon CaveCarole Glasser LangilleAmazon

1996 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerApostrophes: Woman at a PianoE.D. Blodgett...Amazon1996 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistClimate and the AffectionsCrispin ElstedAmazonFootnotes to the Book of JobElizabeth BrewsterAmazonSearch ProceduresErin MouréAmazonShadow WeatherCharles LillardAmazon

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerVoiceAnne SzumigalskiAnne Szumigalski, renowned for her breakout poetry collection Woman Reading in Bath, her Governor Generals Award winning collection Voice, and many other books in between, was one of Canadas most prominent poets. With her published works, as well as with...Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistJerusalem, BelovedDi BrandtAmazonNight WalkRoo BorsonAmazonStations of the Left HandDon DomanskiAmazonThe Ecstasy of SkepticsSteven HeightonAmazon