The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.
Winners and nominees
1990s
| Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Carmelita McGrath | To the New World | |
| Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave | ||
| 1999 | John Steffler | That Night We Were Ravenous | |
| Don Domanski | Parish of the Physic Moon | ||
| Robin McGrath | Escaped Domestics |
2000s
| Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Ken Babstock | Mean | |
| Herménégilde Chiasson (tr. Jo-Anne Elder, Fred Cogswell) | Climates | ||
| George Elliott Clarke | Beatrice Chancy | ||
| 2001 | Anne Simpson | Light Falls Through You | |
| Douglas Burnet Smith | The Killed | ||
| John MacKenzie | Sledgehammer and Other Poems | ||
| 2002 | M. Travis Lane | Keeping Afloat | |
| Herménégilde Chiasson | Conversations | ||
| Patrick Warner | All Manner of Misunderstanding | ||
| 2003 | Anne Compton | Opening the Island | |
| Brian Bartlett | The Afterlife of Trees | ||
| Robert Moore | So Rarely in Our Skins | ||
| 2004 | Brian Bartlett | Wanting the Day | |
| Jill MacLean | The Brevity of Red | ||
| Sue Sinclair | Mortal Arguments | ||
| 2005 | David Helwig | The Year One | |
| Susan Goyette | Undone | ||
| John Smith | Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove | ||
| 2006 | Anne Compton | Processional | |
| Robin McGrath | Covenant of Salt | ||
| Harry Thurston | A Ship Portrait | ||
| 2007 | Steve McOrmond | Primer on the Hereafter | |
| Mary Dalton | Red Ledger | ||
| Peter Sanger | Aiken Drum | ||
| 2008 | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged | |
| George Murray | The Rush to Here | ||
| Anne Simpson | Quick | ||
| 2009 | Brent MacLaine | Shades of Green | |
| Sue Sinclair | Sector | ||
| Alan R. Wilson | Sky Atlas |
2010s
| Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen | Lean-To | |
| Anne Compton | Asking Questions Indoors and Out | ||
| Zachariah Wells | Track & Trace | ||
| 2011 | John Steffler | Lookout | |
| Douglas Burnet Smith | Learning to Count | ||
| Johanna Skibsrud | I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being | ||
| 2012 | Susan Goyette | outskirts | |
| Warren Heiti | Hydrologos | ||
| Anne Simpson | Is | ||
| 2013 | Lesley Choyce | I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything | |
| Carole Glasser Langille | Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems | ||
| George Murray | Whiteout | ||
| 2014 | Don Domanski | Bite Down Little Whisper | |
| Mary Dalton | Hooking | ||
| Susan Goyette | Ocean | ||
| 2015 | Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | |
| Brian Bartlett | Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar | ||
| Sylvia Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You | ||
| 2016 | Susan Goyette | The Brief Reinacarnation of a Girl | |
| Phillip Crymble | Not Even Laughter | ||
| John Wall Barger | The Book of Festus | ||
| 2017 | Jennifer Houle | The Back Channels | |
| Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House | ||
| Patrick Woodcock | You Can't Bury Them All | ||
| 2018 | Julia McCarthy | All the Names Between | |
| Allan Cooper | Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us | ||
| Alison Dyer | I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game | ||
| 2019 | Allison Smith | This Kind of Thinking Does No Good | |
| Basma Kavanagh | Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots | ||
| Annick MacAskill | No Meeting Without Body |
2020s
| Year | Poet | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Lucas Crawford | Belated Bris of the Brainsick | |
| Tammy Armstrong | Year of the Metal Rabbit | ||
| Anne Compton | Smallholding | ||
| 2021 | Afua Cooper | Black Matters | |
| David Huebert | Humanimus | ||
| shalan joudry | Waking Ground | ||
| 2022 | Alyda Faber | Poisonous If Eaten Raw | |
| Triny Finlay | Myself a Paperclip | ||
| Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue | ||
| 2023 | Nanci Lee | Hsin | |
| Luke Hathaway | The Affirmations | ||
| Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | ||
| 2024 | Fawn Parker | Soft Inheritance | |
| Joe Bishop | Indie Rock | ||
| Matthew Hollett | Optic Nerve | ||
| Sadie McCarney | Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking | ||
| Harry Thurston | Ultramarine |
See also
Notes
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- "Local authors short-listed for awards". The Telegram, April 24, 1998.
- "Local writers score in Nova Scotia". The Telegram, May 29, 1999.
- "Atlantic Writing Award nominees announced". Halifax Daily News, April 24, 1999.
- "UNB professor wins regional literary award". The Daily Gleaner, June 1, 2000.
- "Time for books: Local awards consolidated in special week". Halifax Daily News, April 28, 2000.
- "Atlantic Canadians win writing awards". Cape Breton Post, June 6, 2001.
- "Awards finalists announced". New Glasgow Evening News, April 27, 2001.
- "Crummey wins Atlantic awards". The Daily Gleaner, May 27, 2002.
- "Linda Little nominated in three areas for Atlantic Book Awards". Truro Daily News, April 27, 2002.
- "Savage prize tops Atlantic Writing Awards". Halifax Daily News, May 17, 2003.
- "Atlantic Book Award nominees announced". Journal Pioneer, April 28, 2003.
- "Winners of Atlantic Writing Awards announced". The Daily Gleaner, May 25, 2004.
- "Nominees are...: Atlantic Writing Awards 2004 nods go to ...". New Glasgow Evening News, April 28, 2004.
- Dana Gee, "Valley writer wins twice". Halifax Daily News, May 3, 2005.
- "Atlantic book award nominees first chapter of boosted festival". Halifax Daily News, April 14, 2005.
- Heather Sawers, "Book award winners". Halifax Daily News, April 29, 2006.
- "N.B. author makes awards short list". Times & Transcript, April 15, 2006.
- "Iconic Maritimers highly visible at 2008 Atlantic Book Awards". National Post, May 14, 2008.
- "Read east; Literature Atlantic book prize finalists, events announced". Telegraph-Journal, April 17, 2008.
- "N.S. novelist wins Atlantic book prize". CBC News Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010.
- Scott MacDonald, "Atlantic Book Awards Society names finalists". Quill & Quire, March 2, 2010.
- "Atlantic Book Awards shortlist announced". CBC News Nova Scotia, March 3, 2011.
- "Salon's Top 13 for 2013; If you've been an avid reader of Salon through 2012, you already know what we thought were the best books of the year. So, rather than rehash these literary landmarks, we are looking forward with a list of books to get you through winter and perhaps prove that the number 13 isn't so unlucky after all. Selected by Mike Landry". Telegraph-Journal, December 29, 2012.
- "Experience three great authors in one night". The Daily Gleaner, September 8, 2012.
- "Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’". The Telegram, September 23, 2013.
- Maria Siassina, "WFNS Literary Awards shortlists revealed". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2013.
- Robertson, Becky (September 21, 2014). "Kowalski, Kimber, Domanski take home East Coast Literary Awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
- Dory Cerny, "2014 East Coast Literary Awards finalists announced". Quill & Quire, June 11, 2014.
- "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors" Archived April 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
- "N.S. literary award nominees announced". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, May 5, 2015.
- Becky Robertson, "Awards: R.W. Gray, Sue Goyette, Gary L. Saunders win 2016 East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, June 8, 2016.
- Sue Carter, "Dean Jobb, Sue Goyette, Elisabeth de Mariaffi among East Coast Literary Award nominees". Quill & Quire, May 4, 2016.
- "Donna Morrissey, Jennifer Houle, and Erin Wunker win 2017 East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, June 1, 2017.
- Becky Robertson, "Darren Greer, Ami McKay, Erin Wunker among East Coast Literary Awards nominees". Quill & Quire, April 20, 2017.
- Tara Thorne, "Your 2018 Atlantic Book Award winners". The Coast, May 11, 2018.
- James M. Fisher, "Reviews of Books on the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist". The Miramichi Reader, March 26, 2018.
- Porter, Ryan (June 19, 2019). "Lisa Moore wins $25,000 fiction award at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on August 18, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
- Jane van Koeverden, "Lisa Moore, Elisabeth de Mariaffi & Sharon Bala shortlisted for $25K prize for Atlantic Canadian fiction". CBC Arts, May 2, 2019.
- Sue Carter, "Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, July 2, 2020.
- Samraweet Yohannes, "Sheree Fitch among finalists for 2020 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, June 2, 2020.
- Alex Cook, "Atlantic Book Awards Announce 2021 Winners". The East Magazine, May 14, 2021.
- Cassandra Drudi, "2022 Atlantic Book Awards winners announced". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2022.
- "Halifax poet and author David Huebert among finalists for 2022 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, April 26, 2022.
- Morgan Mullin (June 8, 2023). "The speech that stole the show at this year's Atlantic Book Awards". The Coast.
- "Bridget Canning, Lisa Moore and Annick MacAskill among finalists for 2023 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, April 25, 2023.
- Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
- Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists for Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards announced". Quill & Quire, April 15, 2024.