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.
The award was presented for the first time in 2013, and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.
Nominees and winners
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | A. F. Moritz | The New Measures | |
| John Wall Barger | Hummingbird | ||
| 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 | |
| Jen Butler | Seldom Seen Road | ||
| 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 | |
| Catherine Kidd | Hyena Subpoena | ||
| Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | ||
| Laisha Rosnau | Pluck | ||
| Adam Sol | Complicity | ||
| Rachel Zolf | Janey's Arcadia | ||
| 2016 | Lorna Crozier | The Wrong Cat | |
| Marilyn Dumont | The Pemmican Eaters | ||
| 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 | |
| Barry Dempster | Disturbing the Buddha | ||
| 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 | |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World | ||
| 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 | |
| Adam Dickinson | Anatomic | ||
| Alice Major | Welcome to the Anthropocene | ||
| David Martin | Tar Swan | ||
| Jim Nason | Rooster, Dog, Crow | ||
| Kim Trainor | Ledi | ||
| 2020 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | NDN Coping Mechanisms | ||
| Sonnet L'Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare | ||
| Cassidy McFadzean | Drolleries | ||
| Shane Neilson | New Brunswick | ||
| Douglas Walbourne-Gough | Crow Gulch | ||
| 2021 | Ian Williams | Word Problems | |
| Sadiqa de Meijer | The Outer Wards | ||
| Klara du Plessis | Hell Light Flesh | ||
| Jessie Jones | The Fool | ||
| Michael Prior | Burning Province | ||
| John Elizabeth Stintzi | Junebat | ||
| 2022 | Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | |
| Síle Englert | The Lost Time Accidents | ||
| 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 | |
| Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome | ||
| 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 | |
| Roxanna Bennett | Uncomfortability | ||
| 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 |
References
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- ^ "A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". National Post, June 15, 2013.
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