- 1937 - E. J. Pratt , ''The Fable of the Goats''
- 1938 - Kenneth Leslie , ''By Stubborn Stars''
- 1939 - Arthur S. Bourinot ''Under the Sun''
- 1940 - E. J. Pratt , ''Brébeuf and His Brethren''
- 1941 - Anne Marriott , ''Calling Adventurers''
- 1942 - Earle Birney , ''David and Other Poems''
- 1943 - A.J.M. Smith , ''News of the Phoenix''
- 1944 - Dorothy Livesay , ''Day and Night''
- 1945 - Earle Birney , ''Now is Time''
- 1946 - Robert Finch , ''Poems''
- 1947 - Dorothy Livesay , ''Poems for People''
- 1948 - A.M. Klein , ''The Rocking Chair and Other Poems''
- 1949 - James Reaney , ''The Red Heart''
- 1950 - James Wreford Watson , ''Of Time and the Lover''
- 1951 - Charles Bruce , ''The Mulgrave Road''
- 1952 - E.J. Pratt , ''Towards the Last Spike''
- 1953 - Douglas LePan , ''The Net and the Sword''
- 1954 - P.K. Page , ''The Metal and the Flower''
- 1955 - Wilfred Watson , ''Friday's Child''
- 1956 - Robert A.D. Ford , ''A Window on the North''
- 1957 - Jay Macpherson , ''The Boatman''
- 1958 - James Reaney , ''A Suit of Nettles''
- 1959 - Irving Layton , ''Red Carpet for the Sun''
- 1960 - Margaret Avison , ''Winter Sun''
- 1961 - Robert Finch , ''Acis in Oxford''
- 1962 - James Reaney , ''Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Killdeer and Other Plays''
- 1963 - (none)
- 1964 - Raymond Souster , ''The Colour of the Times''
- 1965 - Al Purdy , ''The Cariboo Horses''
- 1966 - Margaret Atwood , ''The Circle Game''
- 1967 - Alden Nowlan , ''Bread, Wine and Salt'' and Eli Mandel , ''An Idiot Joy''
- 1968 - Leonard Cohen , ''Selected Poems 1956-68''
- 1969 - George Bowering , ''Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos'' and Gwendolyn MacEwen , ''The Shadow-Maker''
- 1970 - Michael Ondaatje , ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' and BpNichol , collected works
- 1971 - John Glassco , ''Selected Poems''
- 1972 - John Newlove , ''Lies'' and Dennis Lee , ''Civil Elegies and Other Poems''
- 1973 - Miriam Mandel , ''Lions at her Face''
- 1974 - Ralph Gustafson , ''Fire on Stone''
- 1975 - Milton Acorn , ''The Island Means Minago''
- 1976 - Joe Rosenblatt , ''Top Soil''
- 1977 - D.G. Jones , ''Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth''
- 1978 - Patrick Lane , ''Poems New and Selected''
- 1979 - Michael Ondaatje , ''There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do''
- 1980 - Stephen Scobie , ''McAlmon's Chinese Opera''
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