Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or dramaCheck all the winners of Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 |
|
Stephen Scobie | McAlmon's Chinese opera |
| 1979 |
|
Michael Ondaatje | There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do |
| 1978 |
|
Patrick Lane | Poems, new & selected |
| 1977 |
|
Douglas Gordon Jones | Under the thunder the flowers light up the earth |
| 1976 |
|
Joe Rosenblatt | Top soil |
| 1975 |
|
Milton Acorn | The Island means Minago |
| 1974 |
|
Ralph Gustafson | Fire on stone |
| 1973 |
|
Miriam Mandel | Lions at her Face |
| 1972 |
|
Dennis Lee | Civil Elegies and Other Poems |
| 1972 |
|
John Newlove | Lies |
| 1971 |
|
John Glassco | Selected poems with three notes on the poetic process |
| 1970 |
|
Barrie Phillip Nichol | The true eventual story of Billy the Kid |
| 1970 |
|
Michael Ondaatje | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems |
| 1969 |
|
George Bowering | Rocky Mountain foot |
| 1969 |
|
Gwendolyn MacEwen | The shadow-maker |
| 1968 |
|
Leonard Cohen | SELECTED POEMS 1956 - 1968 |
| 1967 |
|
Alden Nowlan | Bread, wine and salt |
| 1967 |
|
Eli Mandel | An idiot joy |
| 1966 |
|
Margaret Atwood | The Circle Game |
| 1965 |
|
Al Purdy | The cariboo horses |
| 1964 |
|
Raymond Souster | The colour of the times |
| 1962 |
|
James Reaney | Twelve letters to a small town |
| 1961 |
|
Robert Finch | Acis in Oxford |
| 1960 |
|
Margaret Avison | Winter sun |
| 1959 |
|
Irving Layton | A red carpet for the sun |
| 1958 |
|
James Reaney | A suit of nettles |
| 1957 |
|
Jay Macpherson | The Boatman |
| 1956 |
|
Robert Ford | A window on the north |
| 1955 |
|
Wilfred Watson | Friday's child |
| 1954 |
|
P. K. Page | The metal and the flower |
| 1953 |
|
Douglas LePan | The net and the sword |
| 1952 |
|
E. J. Pratt | Towards the Last Spike |
| 1951 |
|
Charles Bruce | Mulgrave Road |
| 1950 |
|
J. Watson | Of time and the lover |
| 1949 |
|
James Reaney | The red heart |
| 1948 |
|
A. M. Klein | The rocking chair |
| 1947 |
|
Dorothy Livesay | Poems for people |
| 1946 |
|
Robert Finch | Poems |
| 1945 |
|
Earle Birney | Now is time |
| 1944 |
|
Dorothy Livesay | Day and night |
| 1943 |
|
A. J. M. Smith | News of the phoenix, and other poems |
| 1942 |
|
Earle Birney | David |
| 1941 |
|
Anne Marriott | Calling Adventurers |
| 1940 |
|
E. J. Pratt | Brébeuf and His Brethren |
| 1939 |
|
Arthur Bourinot | Under the Sun |
| 1938 |
|
Kenneth Leslie | By Stubborn Stars |
| 1937 |
|
E. J. Pratt | The Fable of the Goats |
