2023
2022
2021
Valzhyna Mort, Belarus/USA
Music for the Dead and Resurrected International Winner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
USA
2020
Sarah Riggs, USA
Time International Winner
translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan, USA/Lebanon
Nightboat Books,
USA
2019
Don Mee Choi, USA/Korea
Autobiography of Death International Winner
translated from the Korean written by
Kim Hyesoon, Korea
New Directions Publishing,
USA
2018
Billy-Ray Belcourt, Canada (Driftpile Cree Nation)
This Wound Is a World Canadian Winner
Frontenac House,
Canada
2017
Alice Oswald, UK
Falling Awake International Winner
Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape,
UK
W. W. Norton & Company, USA
W. W. Norton & Company, USA
2016
Liz Howard, Canada
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Canadian Winner
McClelland & Stewart,
Canada
2015
2014
Brenda Hillman, USA
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire International Winner
Wesleyan University Press,
USA
2013
Fady Joudah, USA
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me International Winner
translated from the Arabic written by
Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestine
Yale University Press,
USA
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
John Ashbery, USA
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems International Winner
HarperCollins/Ecco,
USA
Robin Blaser, USA
Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser Canadian Winner
University of California Press,
USA
2007
2006
2005
Roo Borson, Canada
A Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida Canadian Winner
McClelland & Stewart,
Canada
2004
August Kleinzahler, USA
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep International Winner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
USA
2003
2002
2001
Nikolai Popov and
Heather McHugh, USA
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan International Winner
translated from the original written by
Paul Celan, Romania/France
Wesleyan University Press,
USA
