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The Raymond Souster Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets to a book judged as the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet in the previous year.[1]
The award was presented for the first time in 2013,[2] and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.
Nominees and winners
[edit | edit source]| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | [2] |
| John Wall Barger | Hummingbird | [3] | |
| Nancy Holmes | The Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems | ||
| Mark Lavorato | Wayworn Wooden Floors | ||
| Emily McGiffin | Between Dusk and Night | ||
| Pamela Porter | no ordinary place | ||
| 2014 | Anne Compton | Alongside | [1] |
| Jen Butler | Seldom Seen Road | [1] | |
| Catherine Graham | Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects | ||
| Vancy Kasper | Rebel Women | ||
| John Terpstra | Brilliant Falls | ||
| Russell Thornton | Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain | ||
| 2015 | Patrick Lane | Washita | [4] |
| Catherine Kidd | Hyena Subpoena | [5] | |
| Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | ||
| Laisha Rosnau | Pluck | ||
| Adam Sol | Complicity | ||
| Rachel Zolf | Janey's Arcadia | ||
| 2016 | Lorna Crozier | The Wrong Cat | [6] |
| Marilyn Dumont | The Pemmican Eaters | [7] | |
| Maureen Hynes | The Poison Colour | ||
| Alice Major | Standard Candles | ||
| Bruce Meyer | The Arrow of Time | ||
| Armand Garnet Ruffo | The Thunderbird Poems | ||
| 2017 | Louise Bernice Halfe | Burning in this Midnight Dream | [8] |
| Barry Dempster | Disturbing the Buddha | [9] | |
| Beth Everest | silent sister: the mastectomy poems | ||
| Elee Kraljii Gardiner | Serpentine Loop | ||
| Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late | ||
| Dean Steadman | Après Satie – For Two and Four Hands | ||
| 2018 | Karen Enns | Cloud Physics | [10] |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | [11] | |
| Puneet Dutt | The Better Monsters | ||
| Benjamin Hertwig | Slow War | ||
| Cornelia Hoogland | Trailer Park Elegy | ||
| Canisia Lubrin | Voodoo Hypothesis | ||
| 2019 | Stevie Howell | I left nothing inside on purpose | [12] |
| Adam Dickinson | Anatomic | [13] | |
| Alice Major | Welcome to the Anthropocene | ||
| David Martin | Tar Swan | ||
| Jim Nason | Rooster, Dog, Crow | ||
| Kim Trainor | Ledi | ||
| 2020 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | [14] |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | NDN Coping Mechanisms | [15] | |
| Sonnet L'Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare | ||
| Cassidy McFadzean | Drolleries | ||
| Shane Neilson | New Brunswick | ||
| Douglas Walbourne-Gough | Crow Gulch | ||
| 2021 | Ian Williams | Word Problems | [16] |
| Sadiqa de Meijer | The Outer Wards | [17] | |
| Klara du Plessis | Hell Light Flesh | ||
| Jessie Jones | The Fool | ||
| Michael Prior | Burning Province | ||
| John Elizabeth Stintzi | Junebat | ||
| 2022 | Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | [18] |
| Síle Englert | The Lost Time Accidents | [19] | |
| Louise Bernice Halfe | awâsis – kinky and dishevelled | ||
| Leah Horlick | Moldovan Hotel | ||
| D. A. Lockhart | Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli | ||
| Adam Sol | Broken Dawn Blessings | ||
| John Wall Barger | Resurrection Fail | ||
| 2023 | Adebe DeRango-Adem | Vox Humana | [20] |
| Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome | [21] | |
| Alycia Pirmohamed | Another Way to Split Water | ||
| Olive Senior | Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems | ||
| Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Grappling Hook | ||
| Matthew James Weigel | Whitemud Walking | ||
| 2024 | Bradley Peters | Sonnets from a Cell | [22] |
| Roxanna Bennett | Uncomfortability | [23] | |
| Brandi Bird | The All + Flesh | ||
| D. M. Bradford | Bottom Rail on Top | ||
| Wanda John-Kehewin | Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân | ||
| T. Liem | Slows: Twice | ||
| 2025 | Chimwemwe Undi | Scientific Marvel | [24] |
| Manahil Bandukwala | Heliotropia | [25] | |
| Zehra Naqvi | The Knot of My Tongue | ||
| Jane Shi | echolalia echolalia | ||
| Rob Taylor | Weather | ||
| shō yamagushiku | shima |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c "Local poet wins national prize". Telegraph-Journal, June 12, 2014.
- ^ a b "A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". National Post, June 15, 2013.
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- ^ "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2024 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, April 17, 2024.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Indie titles sweep 2025 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, May 14, 2025.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2025 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, May 7, 2025.