Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Fly in AutumnDavid Zieroth"The Fly in Autumn" is a nuanced work that constantly shifts between the inane and the macabre, between black humour and self-mockery. There is an absurdist, Kafkaesque twist to this collection in which the landscapes are sometimes recognizably our own but...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBe Calm, HoneyDavid W. McFaddenAmazonExpresswaySina QueyrasAmazonLittle HungerPhilip Kevin PaulAmazonThis Way OutCarmine StarninoAmazon

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMore to Keep Us WarmJacob ScheierBoth chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young mans mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become inextricably connected, a...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAide-MémoireRuth Roach PiersonAmazonNoise from the LaundryWeyman ChanAmazonThe Invisibility ExhibitSachiko MurakamiAmazonThe SentinelA. F. MoritzAmazon

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAll Our Wonder UnavengedDon DomanskiA poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe. In his first full-length collection since 1998s Parish of the Physic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of ...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMuybridge’s Horse: A Poem in Three PhasesRob WingerAmazonNerve LanguageBrian HendersonAmazonThe Door: PoemsMargaret AtwoodAmazonYesno: PoemsDennis LeeAmazon

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerStumbling in the BloomJohn PassWinner - Governor Generals Award (2006) The poems in Stumbling in the Bloom engage the ever-present enticements and entanglements of beauty on lifes, and arts, home ground - in wilderness and garden. But this surprising volume, the finale of John Passs...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAirstream Land YachtKen BabstockAmazonHome of Sudden ServiceElizabeth BachinskyAmazonInventoryDionne BrandAmazonThe Good BacteriaSharon ThesenAmazon

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerShort Journey Upriver Toward ŌishidaRoo BorsonIn Roo Borsons new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistDisarmamentJohn TerpstraAmazonRobinson’s CrossingJan ZwickyAmazonThe Burning EavesDavid ManicomAmazonThe Memory OrchardTim BowlingAmazon

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerKill-siteTim LilburnBy the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of the Year To his virtuoso collection of new poems, Tim Lilburn brings a philosophers mind and the eyes and ears of a marsh hawk. This series of earthy meditations makes the strange familiar and ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLoopAnne SimpsonAmazonMy Father’s CupTom WaymanAmazonNothing Fell Today But RainEvan JonesAmazonThe Witness GhostTim BowlingAmazon

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerHoly WildGwen Benaway...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHow to Avoid Huge ShipsJulie BruckAmazonSt. Boniface ElegiesCatherine HunterAmazonThe Grand River Watershed: A Folk EcologyKaren HouleAmazonTreaty #Armand Garnet RuffoAmazon

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMy Shoes Are Killing MeRobyn SarahWinner of the 2015 Governor Generals Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of th...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistCrossoverM. Travis LaneAmazonFor Your Safety Please Hold OnKayla CzagaAmazonInfinite Citizen of the Shaking TentLiz HowardAmazonWashitaPatrick LaneAmazon

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Waking Comes LateSteven HeightonThese are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key....Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMarry & BurnRachel RoseAmazonPrairie HarbourGarry Thomas MorseAmazonRegeneration MachineJoe DenhamAmazonThroaty WipesSusan HolbrookAmazon

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerOn Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the FloodRichard HarrisonIn his final years, Richard Harrisons father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his fathers ashes had been lost in t...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAll the Names BetweenJulia McCarthyAmazonSelahNora GouldAmazonSlow WarBenjamin HertwigAmazonWhat the Soul Doesn't WantLorna CrozierAmazon