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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 Dyzgraph
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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