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The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry

2022 submissions closed

The 2022 lists of submissions have been published. The shortlist will be announced in October.

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2021

Winner

I Am the Big Heart (Brick Books) by  Sarah Venart

shortlisted

Because the Sun (Coach House Books) by  Sarah Burgoyne
Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press) by  Klara du Plessis
The Fool (Goose Lane Editions) by  Jessie Jones

Jury

Gloria Macher
Nolan Natasha
Michael Prior

2020

Winner
A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press) by  Sarah Wolfson

shortlisted

Eight Track (Talonbooks) by  Oana Avasilichioaei
POP (Coach House Books) by  Simina Banu
The Headless Man (Anvil Press) by  Peter Dubé
rushes from the river disappointment (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by  stephanie roberts

Jury

Katia Grubisic
Ben Ladouceur
Hoa Nguyen

2019

Winner
Obits. (Coach House Books) by  Tess Liem

shortlisted

Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart) by  Kaie Kellough
I am a Body of Land (Book*hug) by  Shannon Webb Campbell

Jury

Amber Dawn
Ehab Lotayef
Catriona Wright

2018

Winner
My Ariel (Coach House Books) by  Sina Queyras

shortlisted

Museum of Kindness (Brick Books) by  Susan Elmslie
Panicle (ECW Press) by  Gillian Sze

Jury

Billy-Ray Belcourt
Julie Bruck
Virginia Konchan

2017

Winner
Rag Cosmology (BookThug) by  Erin Robinsong

shortlisted

Feel Happier in Nine Seconds (Coach House Books) by  Linda Besner
The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) by  Rebecca Papucaru

Jury

Geoffrey Cook
George Murray
Jennifer Still

2016

Winner
Small Fires (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Kelly Norah Drukker

shortlisted

Saint Twin (Mansfield Press) by  Sarah Burgoyne
Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks) by  Alison Strumberger & Gillian Sze

Jury

Moe Clark
Greg Cook
Moez Surani

2015

Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert

Winner
Asbestos Heights (Coach House Books) by  David McGimpsey

shortlisted

Hyena Subpoena (Wired on Words/Popolo Press) by  Catherine Kidd
Kapusta (House of Anansi Press) by  Erín Moure

Jury

Darren Bifford
Christian Bok
Sonnet L’Abbé

2014

Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert

Winner
M x T (Coach House Books) by  Sina Queyras

shortlisted

Here In There (BookThug) by  Angela Carr
Needs Improvement (Coach House Books) by  Jon Paul Fiorentino
Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press) by  Gillian Sze

Jury

Sue Elmslie
Sue Goyette
Daniel Zomparelli

2013

Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert

Winner
The Civic-Mindedness of Trees (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by  Ken Howe

shortlisted

The Sunrise Liturgy: A Poem Sequence (Wipf and Stock Publishers) by  Mia Anderson
Conjure (Rebel Satori Press) by  Peter Dubé

Jury

Mary Dalton
Susan Gillis
Mark Tredinnick

2012

Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert

Winner
We, Beasts (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by  Oana Avasilichioaei

shortlisted

The Flower of Youth (ECW Press) by  Mary di Michele
The Rapids (Brick Books) by  Susan Gillis

Jury

Elizabeth Philips
Bruce Taylor
Kaie Kellough

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