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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''