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Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry

Recipients

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Prize winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1986 Joe Rosenblatt Poetry Hotel Winner
Anne Marriott Letters for Some Islands Shortlist
P. K. Page The Glass Air Shortlist
1987 Diana Hartog Candy from Strangers Winner
John Newlove The Night the Dog Smiled Shortlist
Tom Wayman The Face of Jack Munro Shortlist
1988 Patricia Young All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room Winner
Norm Sibum Eight Poems Shortlist
Sharon Thesen The Beginning of the Long Dash Shortlist
1989 Charles Lillard Circling North Winner
Doug Beardsley Dancing Star Shortlist
bill bissett what we have Shortlist
1990 Victoria Walker Suitcase Winner
Marlene Cookshaw The Whole Elephant Shortlist
Maureen McCarthy The Girls in the Last Seat Waving Shortlist
1991 Jeff Derksen Down Time Winner
bill bissett Hard 2 beleev Shortlist
Phyllis Webb Hanging Fire Shortlist
1992 Barry McKinnon Pulplog Winner
John Pass The Hour's Acropolis Shortlist
Michael Turner Company Town Shortlist
1993 bill bissett Inkorrect Thots Winner
Kirsten Emmott How Do You Feel? Shortlist
Diana Hartog Polite to Bees: A Bestiary Shortlist
1994 Gregory Scofield The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel Winner
Brian Brett Poems New and Selected Shortlist
Howard White Ghost in the Gears Shortlist
1995 Linda Rogers Hard Candy Winner
Aaron Bushkowsky Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon Shortlist
Adeena Karasick Mêmewars Shortlist
1996 Patrick Lane Too Spare, Too Fierce Winner [1]
Kate Braid To this Cedar Fountain Shortlist
Robin Skelton The Edge of Time Shortlist
1997 Margo Button The Unhinging of Wings Winner
Marilyn Bowering Autobiography Shortlist
Joyce Nelson Seeing in the Dark Shortlist
1998 Patricia Young What I Remember from My Time on Earth Winner
Lyle Neff Ivanhoe Station Shortlist
Linda Rogers Heaven Cake Shortlist
1999 David Zieroth How I Joined Humanity at Last Winner
Patrick Friesen St. Mary at Main Shortlist
Jan Zwicky Songs for Relinquishing the Earth Shortlist
2000 Lorna Crozier What the Living Won't Let Go Winner
Wayde Compton 49th Parallel Psalm Shortlist
Susan Musgrave Things That Keep and Do Not Change Shortlist
D. C. Reid Love and Other Things That Hurt Shortlist
Tom Wayman The Colours of the Forest Shortlist
2001 Don McKay Another Gravity Winner
George Bowering His Life Shortlist
Patrick Lane The Bare Plum of Winter Rain Shortlist
John Pass Water Stair Shortlist
Sue Wheeler Slow-Moving Target Shortlist
2002 Karen Solie Short Haul Engine Winner
Stephen Guppy Understanding Heaven Shortlist
Aislinn Hunter Into the Early Hours Shortlist
Daphne Marlatt This Tremor Love Is Shortlist
Catherine Owen The Wrecks of Eden Shortlist
2003 bill bissett peter among th towring boxes / text bites Winner
Colin Browne Ground Water Shortlist
Marlene Cookshaw Shameless Shortlist
Patrick Friesen The Breath You Take from the Lord Shortlist
Tom Wayman My Father's Cup Shortlist
2004 Philip Kevin Paul Taking the Names Down from the Hill Winner
Marilyn Bowering The Alchemy of Happiness Shortlist
Robert Bringhurst Ursa Major Shortlist
Denise Cammiade The Creature I Am Shortlist
Russell Thornton House Built of Rain Shortlist
2005 Jan Zwicky Robinson's Crossing Winner
Aislinn Hunter The Possible Past Shortlist
Eve Joseph The Startled Heart Shortlist
Patrick Lane Go Leaving Shortlist
D. C. Reid The Hunger Shortlist
2006 Meredith Quartermain Vancouver Walking Winner
Stephen Collis Anarchive Shortlist
Jordan Scott Silt Shortlist
George Sipos Anything But the Moon Shortlist
Jan Zwicky Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences Shortlist
2007 Don McKay Strike / Slip Winner
Maxine Gadd Backup to Babylon Shortlist
Steven Price Anatomy of Keys Shortlist
Sharon Thesen The Good Bacteria Shortlist
Terence Young Moving Day Shortlist
2008 Rita Wong Forage Winner
George McWhirter The Incorrection Shortlist
Arleen Paré Paper Trail Shortlist
Christopher Patton Ox Shortlist
Gillian Wigmore Soft Geography Shortlist
2009 Daphne Marlatt The Given Winner
Karen Hofmann Water Strider Shortlist
Elise Partridge Chameleon Hours Shortlist
Nilofar Shidmehr Shirin and Salt Man Shortlist
George Stanley Vancouver: A Poem Shortlist
2010 Fred Wah Is a Door Winner [2]
Gillian Jerome Red Nest Shortlist
Larissa Lai Automaton Biographies Shortlist
Miranda Pearson Harbour Shortlist
David Zieroth The Fly in Autumn Shortlist
2011 Stephen Collis On the Material Winner [3]
Ken Belford Decompositions Shortlist [4]
George Bowering My Darling Nellie Grey Shortlist [4]
Jen Currin The Inquisition Yours Shortlist [4]
Eve Joseph The Secret Signature of Things Shortlist [4]
2012 John Pass Crawlspace Winner [5]
Patrick Lane The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane Shortlist [6]
Susan McCaslin Demeter Goes Skydiving Shortlist [6]
Garry Thomas Morse Discovery Passages Shortlist [6]
Sharon Thesen Oyama Pink Shale Shortlist [6]
2013 Sarah de Leeuw Geographies of a Lover Winner [7]
Colin Browne The Properties Shortlist [8]
Roger Farr IKMQ Shortlist [8]
Evelyn Lau A Grain of Rice Shortlist [8]
Patricia Young Night-Eater Shortlist [8]
2014 Jordan Abel The Place of Scraps Winner [9]
Catherine Greenwood The Lost Letters Shortlist [10]
Jennica Harper Wood Shortlist [10]
Renée Sarojini Saklikar children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections Shortlist [10]
Russell Thornton Birds, Metals, Stones and Raina Shortlist [10]
2015 Cecily Nicholson From the Poplars Winner [11]
Robert Budde Dreamland Theatre Shortlist [12]
Jen Currin School Shortlist [12]
Kayla Czaga For Your Safety Please Hold On Shortlist [12]
Patrick Lane Washita Shortlist [12]
2016 Raoul Fernandes Transmitter and Receiver Winner [13]
Ali Blythe Twoism Shortlist
Amber Dawn Where the words end and my body begins Shortlist
Miranda Pearson The Fire Extinguisher Shortlist
Jeff Steudel Foreign Park Shortlist
2017 Adèle Barclay If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You Winner [14]
Juliane Okot Bitek 100 Days Shortlist
Anne Fleming poemw Shortlist
Rob Taylor The News Shortlist
Richard Therrien Sleeping in Tall Grass Shortlist
2018 Mercedes Eng Prison Industrial Complex Explodes Winner [15]
Rhonda Ganz Frequent, small loads of laundry Shortlist [16]
Jónína Kirton An Honest Woman Shortlist [16]
Julie Paul The Rules of the Kingdom Shortlist [16]
Onjana Yawnghwe Fragments, Desire Shortlist [16]
2019 Laisha Rosnau Our Familiar Hunger Winner [17]
Eve Joseph Quarrels Shortlist
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Port of Being Shortlist [18]
Fred Wah and Rita Wong beholden, a poem as long as the river Shortlist
Onjana Yawnghwe The Small Way Shortlist
2020 Chantal Gibson How She Read Winner [19][20]
Ali Blythe Hymnswitch Shortlist [21]
Kayla Czaga Dunk Tank Shortlist [21]
Joseph A. Dandurand SH:LAM (The Doctor) Shortlist [21]
Sonnet L’Abbé Sonnet's Shakespeare Shortlist [21]
2021 Michael Prior Burning Province Winner [22][23]
Joseph A. Dandurand The East Side of It All Shortlist [24]
Junie Désil eat salt | gaze at the ocean Shortlist [24]
Valerie Mason-John I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin Shortlist [24]
Fred Wah Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 Shortlist [24]
2022 Henry Doyle No Shelter Winner [25]
Jenny Boychuk Antonyms for Daughter Shortlist [26]
shauna paull blue gait Shortlist [26]
Matt Rader Ghosthawk Shortlist [26]
Isabella Wang Pebble Swing Shortlist [26]
2023 Otoniya J. Okot Bitek A is for Acholi Shortlist [27]
Megan Fennya Jones The Program Shortlist [27]
Cecily Nicholson HARROWINGS Shortlist [27]
Tolu Oloruntoba Each One a Furnace Shortlist [27]
Sheryda Warrener Test Piece Shortlist [27]

See also

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References

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