2020 submissions closed
As of June 1, submissions are closed. The shortlist will be announced in mid-October.
See all submissions2019
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
2015
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
Asbestos Heights
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Hyena Subpoena
(Wired on Words/Popolo Press)
Kapusta
(House of Anansi Press)
Jury
Darren Bifford
Christian Bok
Sonnet L’Abbé
2014
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
M x T
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Here In There
(BookThug)
Needs Improvement
(Coach House Books)
Peeling Rambutan
(Gaspereau Press)
Jury
Sue Elmslie
Sue Goyette
Daniel Zomparelli
2013
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
The Civic-Mindedness of Trees
(Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
shortlisted
The Sunrise Liturgy: A Poem Sequence
(Wipf and Stock Publishers)
Conjure
(Rebel Satori Press)
Jury
Mary Dalton
Susan Gillis
Mark Tredinnick
2012
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
We, Beasts
(Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
shortlisted
The Flower of Youth
(ECW Press)
The Rapids
(Brick Books)
Jury
Elizabeth Philips
Bruce Taylor
Kaie Kellough
2011
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Skullduggery
(Véhicule Press, Signal Edition)
Some Frames
(Cormorant Books)
Jury
David O’Meara
Taqralik Partridge
Priscilla Uppal
2010
Winner
The Certainty Dream
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Circus
(Véhicule Press / Signal Edition)
O Resplandor
(House of Anansi)
Jury
Shawna Lemay
Sina Queyras
Zach Wells