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2022 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

David Bradford

Dream of No One but Myself

Brick Books
Canada
Liz Howard

Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Tolu Oloruntoba

The Junta of Happenstance

Palimpsest Press
Canada, Nigeria Winner

2021 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Joseph Dandurand

The East Side of It All

Nightwood Editions
Canada
Canisia Lubrin

The Dyzgraphxst

McClelland & Stewart
Canada, St. Lucia Winner
Yusuf Saadi

Pluviophile

Nightwood Editions
Canada

2020 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Chantal Gibson

How She Read

Caitlin Press
Canada
Doyali Farah Islam

heft

McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Kaie Kellough

Magnetic Equator

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner

2019 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Dionne Brand

The Blue Clerk

Penguin Random House Canada
Canada
Eve Joseph

Quarrels

Anvil Press
Canada Winner
Sarah Tolmie

The Art of Dying

McGill-Queen's University Press
Canada

2018 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Billy-Ray Belcourt

This Wound Is a World

Frontenac House
Canada (Driftpile Cree Nation) Winner
Aisha Sasha John

I have to live.

McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Donato Mancini

Same Diff

Talonbooks
Canada

2017 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Jordan Abel

Injun

Talonbooks
Canada Winner
Hoa Nguyen

Violet Energy Ingots

Wave Books
USA
Sandra Ridley

Silvija

Book*hug Press
Canada

2016 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Per Brask and Patrick Friesen

Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments

translated from the Danish written by
Ulrikka S. Gernes
Brick Books
Canada, Denmark
Liz Howard

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner
Soraya Peerbaye

Tell: poems for a girlhood

Pedlar Press
Canada

2015 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Shane Book

Congotronic

House of Anansi
Canada
Jane Munro

Blue Sonoma

Brick Books
Canada Winner
Russell Thornton

The Hundred Lives

Quattro Books
Canada

2014 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Anne Carson

Red Doc>

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner
Sue Goyette

Ocean

Gaspereau Press
Canada
Anne Michaels

Correspondences

McClelland & Stewart
Canada

2013 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

David W. McFadden

What's the Score?

Mansfield Press
Canada Winner
James Pollock

Sailing to Babylon

Able Muse Press
Canada
Ian Williams

Personals

Freehand Books/Broadview Press
Canada

2012 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Ken Babstock

Methodist Hatchet

House of Anansi
Canada Winner
Phil Hall

Killdeer

Book*hug Press
Canada
Jan Zwicky

Forge

Gaspereau Press
Canada

2011 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Dionne Brand

Ossuaries

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner
Suzanne Buffam

The Irrationalist

House of Anansi
Canada
John Steffler

Lookout

McClelland & Stewart
Canada

2010 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Kate Hall

The Certainty Dream

Coach House Books
Canada
P. K. Page

Coal and Roses

The Porcupine's Quill
Canada
Karen Solie

Pigeon

House of Anansi
Canada Winner

2009 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Kevin Connolly

Revolver

House of Anansi
Canada
Jeramy Dodds

Crabwise to the Hounds

Coach House Books
Canada
A. F. Moritz

The Sentinel

House of Anansi
Canada Winner

2008 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Robin Blaser

Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser

University of California Press
USA Winner
Robert Majzels and Erín Moure

Notebook of Roses and Civilization

translated from the French written by
Nicole Brossard
Coach House Books
Canada
David W. McFadden

Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems

Insomniac Press
Canada

2007 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Ken Babstock

Airstream Land Yacht

House of Anansi
Canada
Don McKay

Strike/Slip

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner
Priscila Uppal

Ontological Necessities

Exile Editions
Canada

2006 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Phil Hall

An Oak Hunch

Brick Books
Canada
Sylvia Legris

Nerve Squall

Coach House Books
Canada Winner
Erín Moure

Little Theatres

House of Anansi
Canada

2005 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Roo Borson

A Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner
George Bowering

Changing on the Fly

Raincoast Books
Canada
Don McKay

Camber

McClelland & Stewart
Canada

2004 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Di Brandt

Now You Care

Coach House Books
Canada
Leslie Greentree

go-go dancing for Elvis

Frontenac House
Canada
Anne Simpson

Loop

McClelland & Stewart
Canada Winner

2003 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Margaret Avison

Concrete and Wild Carrot

Brick Books
Canada Winner
Dionne Brand

Thirsty

McClelland & Stewart
Canada
P. K. Page

Planet Earth

The Porcupine's Quill
Canada

2002 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Christian Bök

Eunoia

Coach House Books
Canada Winner
Erín Moure

Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person

translated from the original written by
Alberto Caeiro and Fernando Pessoa
House of Anansi
Canada, USA
Karen Solie

Short Haul Engine

Brick Books
Canada

2001 Shortlist

Canadian Shortlist

Robert Bringhurst

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

Douglas & McIntyre
Canada
Anne Carson

Men in the Off Hours

Alfred A. Knopf
Canada Winner
Don McKay

Another Gravity

McClelland & Stewart
Canada