2019 submissions closed
2018
Winner
My Ariel
(Coach House Books)
Jury
Billy-Ray Belcourt (Edmonton)
Julie Bruck (San Francisco)
Virginia Konchan (Montreal)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2010
Winner
The Certainty Dream
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Circus
(Véhicule Press / Signal Edition)
O Resplandor
(House of Anansi)
2009
Winner
This Way Out
(Gaspereau Press)
shortlisted
The Pangborn Defence
(Biblioasis)
Jack
(Snare Books)