Governor General's Award for English language poetry
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This is a list of the Canadian Governor General's Award winners for poetry. This award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was split in two.
- 1981 - F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
- 1982 - Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
- 1983 - David Donnell, Settlements
- 1984 - Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
- 1985 - Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan
- 1986 - Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
- 1987 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
- 1988 - Erin Mouré, Furious
- 1989 - Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
- 1990 - Margaret Avison, No Time
- 1991 - Don McKay, Night Field
- 1992 - Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
- 1993 - Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World
- 1994 - Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room
- 1995 - Anne Szumigalski, Voice
- 1996 - E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
- 1997 - Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
- 1998 - Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
- 1999 - Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
- 2000 - Don McKay, Another Gravity
- 2001 - George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems
- 2002 - Roy Miki, Surrender
- 2003 - Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
- 2004 - Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
- 2005 - Anne Compton, Processional
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