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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Local poet wins national prize". Telegraph-Journal, June 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". National Post, June 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Baldassi, Julie (April 5, 2013). "League of Canadian Poets announces 2013 shortlists". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  4. ↑ Tobias, Conan (June 3, 2015). "League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on December 9, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  5. ↑ Robertson, Becky (April 1, 2015). "League of Canadian Poets 2015 awards finalists revealed". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Poet talks age, animals, place; Crozier reflects on national awards, 'mini novels'". Vancouver Sun, August 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Robertson, Becky (April 4, 2016). "Awards: League of Canadian Poets announces shortlists for annual poetry awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Poet's powerful work on her past wins major prize". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, November 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ Medley, Mark (April 6, 2017). "Finalists for Canadian poetry awards announced". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  10. ↑ Porter, Ryan (2018-06-18). "The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  11. ↑ Carter, Sue (April 30, 2018). "The League of Canadian Poets announces shortlists". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  12. ↑ Porter, Ryan (2019-06-10). "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  13. ↑ van Koeverden, Jane (April 23, 2019). "Klara du Plessis nominated for two 2019 League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books. Archived from the original on September 27, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  14. ↑ Gee, Dana (2020-05-11). "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  15. ↑ Yohannes, Samraweet (April 21, 2020). "Doyali Islam, Thomas King and Billy-Ray Belcourt shortlisted for 2020 League of Canadian Poets Awards". CBC News. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  16. ↑ Smith, Charlie (2021-05-06). "Vancouver poet Jillian Christmas and UBC creative writing professor Ian Williams win national awards". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  17. ↑ "Jillian Christmas, Bertrand Bickersteth & Ian Williams among finalists for League of Canadian Poets awards". CBC News. April 15, 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  18. ↑ Drudi, Cassadra (2022-05-05). "League of Canadian Poets announces 2022 awards winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  19. ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2022-04-21). "Shortlists announced for 2022 League of Canadian Poets book awards". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-12. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  20. ↑ "Matthew James Weigel, Gillian Sze, Adebe DeRango-Adem win League of Canadian Poets book awards". Quill and Quire. 2023-05-04. Archived from the original on 2023-05-20. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  21. ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2023-04-20). "League of Canadian Poets announces 2023 Book Awards shortlists". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2023-05-06. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
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