Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
One of the
Governor General's Award for Poetry
Recipients
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1986 | Joe Rosenblatt | Poetry Hotel | Winner | |
Anne Marriott | Letters for Some Islands | Shortlist | ||
P. K. Page | The Glass Air | Shortlist | ||
1987 | Diana Hartog | Candy from Strangers | Winner | |
John Newlove | The Night the Dog Smiled | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | The Face of Jack Munro | Shortlist | ||
1988 | Patricia Young | All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room | Winner | |
Norm Sibum | Eight Poems | Shortlist | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Beginning of the Long Dash | Shortlist | ||
1989 | Charles Lillard | Circling North | Winner | |
Doug Beardsley | Dancing Star | Shortlist | ||
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what we have | Shortlist | ||
1990 | Victoria Walker
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Suitcase | Winner | |
Marlene Cookshaw | The Whole Elephant | Shortlist | ||
Maureen McCarthy | The Girls in the Last Seat Waving | Shortlist | ||
1991 | Jeff Derksen | Down Time | Winner | |
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Hard 2 beleev | Shortlist | ||
Phyllis Webb | Hanging Fire | Shortlist | ||
1992 | Barry McKinnon | Pulplog | Winner | |
John Pass | The Hour's Acropolis | Shortlist | ||
Michael Turner | Company Town | Shortlist | ||
1993 | bill bissett
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Inkorrect Thots | Winner | |
Kirsten Emmott | How Do You Feel? | Shortlist | ||
Diana Hartog | Polite to Bees: A Bestiary | Shortlist | ||
1994 | Gregory Scofield | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel | Winner | |
Brian Brett | Poems New and Selected | Shortlist | ||
Howard White | Ghost in the Gears | Shortlist | ||
1995 | Linda Rogers | Hard Candy | Winner | |
Aaron Bushkowsky | Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon | Shortlist | ||
Adeena Karasick | Mêmewars | Shortlist | ||
1996 | Patrick Lane | Too Spare, Too Fierce | Winner | [1] |
Kate Braid | To this Cedar Fountain | Shortlist | ||
Robin Skelton | The Edge of Time | Shortlist | ||
1997 | Margo Button | The Unhinging of Wings | Winner | |
Marilyn Bowering | Autobiography | Shortlist | ||
Joyce Nelson | Seeing in the Dark | Shortlist | ||
1998 | Patricia Young | What I Remember from My Time on Earth | Winner | |
Lyle Neff | Ivanhoe Station | Shortlist | ||
Linda Rogers | Heaven Cake | Shortlist | ||
1999 | David Zieroth | How I Joined Humanity at Last | Winner | |
Patrick Friesen | St. Mary at Main | Shortlist | ||
Jan Zwicky | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | Shortlist | ||
2000 | Lorna Crozier | What the Living Won't Let Go | Winner | |
Wayde Compton | 49th Parallel Psalm | Shortlist | ||
Susan Musgrave | Things That Keep and Do Not Change | Shortlist | ||
D. C. Reid | Love and Other Things That Hurt | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | The Colours of the Forest | Shortlist | ||
2001 | Don McKay | Another Gravity | Winner | |
George Bowering | His Life | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Lane | The Bare Plum of Winter Rain | Shortlist | ||
John Pass | Water Stair | Shortlist | ||
Sue Wheeler | Slow-Moving Target | Shortlist | ||
2002 | Karen Solie | Short Haul Engine | Winner | |
Stephen Guppy | Understanding Heaven | Shortlist | ||
Aislinn Hunter | Into the Early Hours | Shortlist | ||
Daphne Marlatt | This Tremor Love Is | Shortlist | ||
Catherine Owen | The Wrecks of Eden | Shortlist | ||
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peter among th towring boxes / text bites | Winner | |
Colin Browne | Ground Water | Shortlist | ||
Marlene Cookshaw | Shameless | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Friesen | The Breath You Take from the Lord | Shortlist | ||
Tom Wayman | My Father's Cup | Shortlist | ||
2004 | Philip Kevin Paul | Taking the Names Down from the Hill | Winner | |
Marilyn Bowering | The Alchemy of Happiness | Shortlist | ||
Robert Bringhurst | Ursa Major | Shortlist | ||
Denise Cammiade | The Creature I Am | Shortlist | ||
Russell Thornton | House Built of Rain | Shortlist | ||
2005 | Jan Zwicky | Robinson's Crossing | Winner | |
Aislinn Hunter | The Possible Past | Shortlist | ||
Eve Joseph | The Startled Heart | Shortlist | ||
Patrick Lane | Go Leaving | Shortlist | ||
D. C. Reid | The Hunger | Shortlist | ||
2006 | Meredith Quartermain | Vancouver Walking | Winner | |
Stephen Collis | Anarchive | Shortlist | ||
Jordan Scott | Silt | Shortlist | ||
George Sipos | Anything But the Moon | Shortlist | ||
Jan Zwicky | Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences | Shortlist | ||
2007 | Don McKay | Strike / Slip | Winner | |
Maxine Gadd | Backup to Babylon | Shortlist | ||
Steven Price | Anatomy of Keys | Shortlist | ||
Sharon Thesen | The Good Bacteria | Shortlist | ||
Terence Young | Moving Day | Shortlist | ||
2008 | Rita Wong | Forage | Winner | |
George McWhirter | The Incorrection | Shortlist | ||
Arleen Paré | Paper Trail | Shortlist | ||
Christopher Patton | Ox | Shortlist | ||
Gillian Wigmore | Soft Geography | Shortlist | ||
2009 | Daphne Marlatt | The Given | Winner | |
Karen Hofmann | Water Strider | Shortlist | ||
Elise Partridge | Chameleon Hours | Shortlist | ||
Nilofar Shidmehr | Shirin and Salt Man | Shortlist | ||
George Stanley | Vancouver: A Poem | Shortlist | ||
2010 | Fred Wah | Is a Door | Winner | [2] |
Gillian Jerome | Red Nest | Shortlist | ||
Larissa Lai | Automaton Biographies | Shortlist | ||
Miranda Pearson | Harbour | Shortlist | ||
David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn | Shortlist | ||
2011 | Stephen Collis | On the Material | Winner | [3] |
Ken Belford | Decompositions | Shortlist | [4] | |
George Bowering | My Darling Nellie Grey | Shortlist | [4] | |
Jen Currin | The Inquisition Yours | Shortlist | [4] | |
Eve Joseph | The Secret Signature of Things | Shortlist | [4] | |
2012 | John Pass | Crawlspace | Winner | [5] |
Patrick Lane | The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane | Shortlist | [6] | |
Susan McCaslin | Demeter Goes Skydiving | Shortlist | [6] | |
Garry Thomas Morse | Discovery Passages | Shortlist | [6] | |
Sharon Thesen | Oyama Pink Shale | Shortlist | [6] | |
2013 | Sarah de Leeuw | Geographies of a Lover | Winner | [7] |
Colin Browne | The Properties | Shortlist | [8] | |
Roger Farr | IKMQ | Shortlist | [8] | |
Evelyn Lau | A Grain of Rice | Shortlist | [8] | |
Patricia Young | Night-Eater | Shortlist | [8] | |
2014 | Jordan Abel | The Place of Scraps | Winner | [9] |
Catherine Greenwood | The Lost Letters | Shortlist | [10] | |
Jennica Harper | Wood | Shortlist | [10] | |
Renée Sarojini Saklikar | children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections | Shortlist | [10] | |
Russell Thornton | Birds, Metals, Stones and Raina | Shortlist | [10] | |
2015 | Cecily Nicholson | From the Poplars | Winner | [11] |
Robert Budde | Dreamland Theatre | Shortlist | [12] | |
Jen Currin | School | Shortlist | [12] | |
Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | Shortlist | [12] | |
Patrick Lane | Washita | Shortlist | [12] | |
2016 | Raoul Fernandes | Transmitter and Receiver | Winner | [13] |
Ali Blythe | Twoism | Shortlist | ||
Amber Dawn | Where the words end and my body begins | Shortlist | ||
Miranda Pearson | The Fire Extinguisher | Shortlist | ||
Jeff Steudel | Foreign Park | Shortlist | ||
2017 | Adèle Barclay | If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You | Winner | [14] |
Juliane Okot Bitek | 100 Days | Shortlist | ||
Anne Fleming | poemw | Shortlist | ||
Rob Taylor | The News | Shortlist | ||
Richard Therrien | Sleeping in Tall Grass | Shortlist | ||
2018 | Mercedes Eng | Prison Industrial Complex Explodes | Winner | [15] |
Rhonda Ganz | Frequent, small loads of laundry | Shortlist | [16] | |
Jónína Kirton | An Honest Woman | Shortlist | [16] | |
Julie Paul | The Rules of the Kingdom | Shortlist | [16] | |
Onjana Yawnghwe | Fragments, Desire | Shortlist | [16] | |
2019 | Laisha Rosnau | Our Familiar Hunger | Winner | [17] |
Eve Joseph | Quarrels | Shortlist | ||
Shazia Hafiz Ramji | Port of Being | Shortlist | [18] | |
Fred Wah and Rita Wong | beholden, a poem as long as the river | Shortlist | ||
Onjana Yawnghwe | The Small Way | Shortlist | ||
2020 | Chantal Gibson | How She Read | Winner | [19][20] |
Ali Blythe | Hymnswitch | Shortlist | [21] | |
Kayla Czaga | Dunk Tank | Shortlist | [21] | |
Joseph A. Dandurand | SH:LAM (The Doctor) | Shortlist | [21] | |
Sonnet L’Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare | Shortlist | [21] | |
2021 | Michael Prior | Burning Province | Winner | [22][23] |
Joseph A. Dandurand | The East Side of It All | Shortlist | [24] | |
Junie Désil | eat salt | gaze at the ocean | Shortlist | [24] | |
Valerie Mason-John | I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin | Shortlist | [24] | |
Fred Wah | Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 | Shortlist | [24] | |
2022 | Henry Doyle | No Shelter | Winner | [25] |
Jenny Boychuk | Antonyms for Daughter | Shortlist | [26] | |
shauna paull | blue gait | Shortlist | [26] | |
Matt Rader | Ghosthawk | Shortlist | [26] | |
Isabella Wang | Pebble Swing | Shortlist | [26] | |
2023 | Otoniya J. Okot Bitek | A is for Acholi | Shortlist | [27] |
Megan Fennya Jones | The Program | Shortlist | [27] | |
Cecily Nicholson | HARROWINGS | Shortlist | [27] | |
Tolu Oloruntoba | Each One a Furnace | Shortlist | [27] | |
Sheryda Warrener | Test Piece | Shortlist | [27] |
See also
References
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External links
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Archived 2017-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, official website
- BC Book Prizes Web site