Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Collected Poems of Al PurdyAl Purdy...Amazon1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistThe Immaculate PerceptionChristopher DewdneyAmazonThe Night the Dog SmiledJohn NewloveAmazon

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAfterworldsGwendolyn MacEwen...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistPear Tree PomesRoy KiyookaAmazonQuestions I Asked My MotherDi BrandtAmazonThe Beginning of the Long DashSharon ThesenAmazon

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerFuriousErin MouréThe poetry in the Governor Generals Award–winning collection Furious is charged with Erin Moures characteristic energy and wit as she explores the limits of pure reason and the language of power. There is, too, a fresh and often celebratory look at love,...Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAngels of Flesh, Angels of SilenceLorna CrozierAmazonComing to JakartaPeter Dale ScottAmazonGypsy GuitarDavid McFaddenAmazonRadiant InventoryChristopher DewdneyAmazon

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Word for SandHeather SpearsThe Word for Sand by Heather Spears takes up where her previous book, The Lowther Award-winning How to Read Faces, left off. The poems are informed by the authors long sojourns in both Canada and Europe. The Word for Sand won the Governor Generals Award ...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistDuninoStephen ScobieAmazonTourist to EcstasyTim LilburnAmazon

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerLake of Two MountainsArleen ParéA hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Parés second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLeaving Howe IslandSadiqa de MeijerAmazonLight LightJulie JoostenAmazonNight VisionChristopher LevensonAmazonPrologue for the Age of ConsequenceGarth MartensAmazon

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerNorth End Love SongsKatherena VermetteAn ode to Winnipegs north end, where Ms. Vermette grew up. Its also the neighbourhood where her Métis brother went missing....Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBirds, Metals, Stones & RainRussell ThorntonAmazonBite Down Little WhisperDon DomanskiAmazonThe PolymersAdam DickinsonAmazonWhere the Sun Shines BestAustin ClarkeAmazon

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMonkey RanchJulie BruckComic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient, what will suffice? ... a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum -- sometimes with rage, or p...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAny Bright HorseLisa PasoldAmazonLi’l BastardDavid McGimpseyAmazonSailing to BabylonJames PollockAmazonThe New MeasuresA. F. MoritzAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerProcessionalAnne ComptonProcessional is Anne Comptons second book of poems, the follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut, Opening the Island. Here, Compton is at the head of a poetic procession, leading readers through a house affected by daily life and the extraordinary, stoppin...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLittle theatresErin MouréAmazonOver the Roofs of the WorldOlive SeniorAmazonThe Burning AlphabetBarry DempsterAmazonUnderwood LogW.H. NewAmazon

2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerKilldeerPhil HallPoetry. These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue....Amazon2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistCosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-EpicMichael BoughnAmazonDiscovery PassagesGarry Thomas MorseAmazonFieldnotes, A ForensicKate EichhornAmazonOrigami DoveSusan MusgraveAmazon