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2024

Maggie Burton

Chores Canadian First Book Prize Winner

Breakwater Books, Canada
George McWhirter, Canada/Northern Ireland

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence Winner

translated from the Spanish written by
Homero Aridjis, Mexico
New Directions Publishing, USA

2023

Roger Reeves, USA

Best Barbarian Winner

W. W. Norton & Company, USA
Emily Riddle, Canada

The Big Melt Canadian First Book Prize Winner

Nightwood Editions, Canada

2022

Douglas Kearney, USA

Sho International Winner

Wave Books, USA

Tolu Oloruntoba, Canada/Nigeria

The Junta of Happenstance Canadian Winner

Palimpsest Press, Canada

2021

Valzhyna Mort, Belarus/USA

Music for the Dead and Resurrected International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canisia Lubrin, Canada/St. Lucia

The Dyzgraphxst Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2020

Sarah Riggs, USA

Time International Winner

translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan, USA/Lebanon
Nightboat Books, USA

Kaie Kellough, Canada

Magnetic Equator Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2019

Don Mee Choi, USA/Korea

Autobiography of Death International Winner

translated from the Korean written by
Kim Hyesoon, Korea
New Directions Publishing, USA

Eve Joseph, Canada

Quarrels Canadian Winner

Anvil Press, Canada

2018

Susan Howe, USA

Debths International Winner

New Directions Publishing, USA

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

Jordan Abel, Canada

Injun Canadian Winner

Talon Books, Canada

2016

Norman Dubie, USA

The Quotations of Bone International Winner

Copper Canyon Press, USA

Liz Howard, Canada

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2015

Michael Longley, UK

The Stairwell International Winner

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, UK

Jane Munro, Canada

Blue Sonoma Canadian Winner

Brick Books, Canada

2014

Brenda Hillman, USA

Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire International Winner

Wesleyan University Press, USA

Anne Carson, Canada/USA

Red Doc> Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

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

David W. McFadden, Canada

What's the Score? Canadian Winner

Mansfield Press, Canada

2012

David Harsent, UK

Night International Winner

Faber & Faber, UK

Ken Babstock, Canada

Methodist Hatchet Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada

2011

Gjertrud Schnackenberg, USA

Heavenly Questions International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Dionne Brand, Canada

Ossuaries Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2010

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland

The Sun-Fish International Winner

The Gallery Press, Ireland

Karen Solie, Canada

Pigeon Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada

2009

C. D. Wright, USA

Rising, Falling, Hovering International Winner

Copper Canyon Press, USA

A. F. Moritz, Canada

The Sentinel Canadian Winner

House of Anansi, Canada

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

Charles Wright, USA

Scar Tissue International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Don McKay, Canada

Strike/Slip Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2006

Kamau Brathwaite, Barbados

Born to Slow Horses International Winner

Wesleyan University Press, USA

Sylvia Legris, Canada

Nerve Squall Canadian Winner

Coach House Books, Canada

2005

Charles Simic, USA

Selected Poems: 1963-2003 International Winner

Faber & Faber, UK

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

Anne Simpson, Canada

Loop Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada

2003

Paul Muldoon, USA

Moy Sand and Gravel International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Margaret Avison, Canada

Concrete and Wild Carrot Canadian Winner

Brick Books, Canada

2002

Alice Notley, USA

Disobedience International Winner

Penguin Books USA, USA

Christian Bök, Canada

Eunoia Canadian Winner

Coach House Books, Canada

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

Anne Carson, Canada/USA

Men in the Off Hours Canadian Winner

Alfred A. Knopf, USA