June 4, 2007 by kevinstilley

The Governor General’s Award for English Language Poetry

1981 – F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
1982 – Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
1983 – David Donnell, Settlements
1984 – Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
1985 – Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan
1986 – Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
1987 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
1988 – Erin Mouré, Furious
1989 – Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
1990 – Margaret Avison, No Time
1991 – Don McKay, Night Field
1992 – Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
1993 – Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World
1994 – Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room
1995 – Anne Szumigalski, Voice
1996 – E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
1997 – Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
1998 – Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
1999 – Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
2000 – Don McKay, Another Gravity
2001 – George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems
2002 – Roy Miki, Surrender
2003 – Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
2004 – Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
2005 – Anne Compton, Processional
2006 – John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom