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2022 Winners
International Winner
Douglas Kearney
Sho
Wave Books
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Tolu Oloruntoba
The Junta of Happenstance
Palimpsest Press
Canada, Nigeria
Winner
2021 Winners
International Winner
Valzhyna Mort
Music for the Dead and Resurrected
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Canisia Lubrin
The Dyzgraph
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McClelland & Stewart
Canada, St. Lucia
Winner
2020 Winners
International Winner
Sarah Riggs
Time
translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan
Nightboat Books
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Kaie Kellough
Magnetic Equator
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2019 Winners
International Winner
Don Mee Choi
Autobiography of Death
translated from the Korean written by
Kim Hyesoon
New Directions Publishing
USA, Korea
Winner
Canadian Winner
Eve Joseph
Quarrels
Anvil Press
Canada
Winner
2018 Winners
International Winner
Susan Howe
Debths
New Directions Publishing
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Wound Is a World
Frontenac House
Canada (Driftpile Cree Nation)
Winner
2017 Winners
International Winner
Alice Oswald
Falling Awake
Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
,
W. W. Norton & Company
UK
Winner
Canadian Winner
Jordan Abel
Injun
Talonbooks
Canada
Winner
2016 Winners
International Winner
Norman Dubie
The Quotations of Bone
Copper Canyon Press
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Liz Howard
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2015 Winners
International Winner
Michael Longley
The Stairwell
Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
UK
Winner
Canadian Winner
Jane Munro
Blue Sonoma
Brick Books
Canada
Winner
2014 Winners
International Winner
Brenda Hillman
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Wesleyan University Press
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Anne Carson
Red Doc>
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2013 Winners
International Winner
Fady Joudah
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me
translated from the Arabic written by
Ghassan Zaqtan
Yale University Press
USA, Palestine
Winner
Canadian Winner
David W. McFadden
What's the Score?
Mansfield Press
Canada
Winner
2012 Winners
International Winner
David Harsent
Night
Faber & Faber
UK
Winner
Canadian Winner
Ken Babstock
Methodist Hatchet
House of Anansi
Canada
Winner
2011 Winners
International Winner
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Heavenly Questions
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Dionne Brand
Ossuaries
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2010 Winners
International Winner
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Sun-Fish
The Gallery Press
Ireland
Winner
Canadian Winner
Karen Solie
Pigeon
House of Anansi
Canada
Winner
2009 Winners
International Winner
C. D. Wright
Rising, Falling, Hovering
Copper Canyon Press
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
A. F. Moritz
The Sentinel
House of Anansi
Canada
Winner
2008 Winners
International Winner
John Ashbery
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
HarperCollins/Ecco
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Robin Blaser
Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser
University of California Press
USA
Winner
2007 Winners
International Winner
Charles Wright
Scar Tissue
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Don McKay
Strike/Slip
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2006 Winners
International Winner
Kamau Brathwaite
Born to Slow Horses
Wesleyan University Press
USA, Barbados
Winner
Canadian Winner
Sylvia Legris
Nerve Squall
Coach House Books
Canada
Winner
2005 Winners
International Winner
Charles Simic
Selected Poems: 1963-2003
Faber & Faber
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Roo Borson
A Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2004 Winners
International Winner
August Kleinzahler
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Anne Simpson
Loop
McClelland & Stewart
Canada
Winner
2003 Winners
International Winner
Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Margaret Avison
Concrete and Wild Carrot
Brick Books
Canada
Winner
2002 Winners
International Winner
Alice Notley
Disobedience
Penguin Books USA
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Christian Bök
Eunoia
Coach House Books
Canada
Winner
2001 Winners
International Winner
Nikolai Popov
and
Heather McHugh
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
translated from the original written by
Paul Celan
Wesleyan University Press
USA
Winner
Canadian Winner
Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours
Alfred A. Knopf
Canada
Winner