2025
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
An Orange, A Syllable
(ECW Press)
shortlisted
No One Knows Us There
(Book*hug Press)
Post-Mortem of the Event
(Palimpsest Press)
Gone Gone
(Duke University Press)
UNMET
(Biblioasis)
Jury
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Carolyne Van Der Meer
Matthew James Weigel
2024
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
National Animal
(Véhicule Press/Signal Editions)
shortlisted
Bottom Rail on Top
(Brick Books)
Tidal
(Pine Row Press)
Listening in Many Publics
(Invisible Publishing)
Jury
Joanne Arnott
Ross Leckie
Nisha Patel
2023
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
Wet Dream
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Dream Rooms
(Book*hug Press)
Slows: Twice
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Jason Purcell
Rohan Quinby
Sennah Yee
2022
Sponsored by Byron RempelWinner
Dream of No One But Myself
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Horrible Dance
(Brick Books)
Emanations
(Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)
Quiet Night Think
(ECW Press)
Jury
Jordan Abel
Susan Gillis
Zoe Imani Sharpe
2021
Winner
I Am the Big Heart
(Brick Books)
shortlisted
Because the Sun
(Coach House Books)
Hell Light Flesh
(Palimpsest Press)
The Fool
(Goose Lane Editions)
Jury
Gloria Macher
Nolan Natasha
Michael Prior
2020
Winner
A Common Name for Everything
(Green Writers Press)
shortlisted
Eight Track
(Talonbooks)
POP
(Coach House Books)
The Headless Man
(Anvil Press)
rushes from the river disappointment
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Jury
Katia Grubisic
Ben Ladouceur
Hoa Nguyen
2019
Winner
Obits.
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Amber Dawn
Ehab Lotayef
Catriona Wright
2018
Winner
My Ariel
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Julie Bruck
Virginia Konchan
2017
Winner
Rag Cosmology
(BookThug)
shortlisted
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
(Coach House Books)
The Panic Room
(Nightwood Editions)
Jury
Geoffrey Cook
George Murray
Jennifer Still
2016
Winner
Small Fires
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
shortlisted
Saint Twin
(Mansfield Press)
Redrafting Winter
(BuschekBooks)
Jury
Moe Clark
Greg Cook
Moez Surani
