Poetry Award

The CAA Poetry Award

Award History - Award Details - Entry Information - Winners

History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants "honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal."

For more information about the CAA Awards for Adult Literature, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

CAA Poetry Award

About the Award

The CAA Poetry Award is for a volume of poetry by one poet.

Funding History

The CAA Award for Poetry was funded by Harlequin Enterprises of Toronto from 1975 to 1997. From 1998 to 2005, it was funded by a member of the CAA who chooses to remain anonymous. For 2006, it was funded collectively by a number of CAA members. The 2007 award was temporarily funded by a member of the CAA who chooses to remain anonymous. Likewise the 2008 CAA Award for Poetry will be funded by two CAA members who wish to remain anonymous

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Entry Information

The nominations deadline is December 15th each year. Entries should be postmarked by that date, except for works published after December 1st, in which case they must be postmarked no later than January 15th in the following year.

The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact Alec McEachern at the CAA National Office.

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CAA Award for Poetry Winners

1975 Tome Wayman - For and Against the Moon: Blues, Yells and Chuckles
1976 Jim Green - North Book
1977 Sid Stephen - Beothuck Poems
1978 Alden Nowlan - Smoked Glass
1979 Andrew Suknaski - The Ghosts You Call Poor
1980 Michael Ondaatje - There's A Trick With A Knife That I'm Learning To Do
1981 Leona Gom - Land of The Peace
1982 Gary Geddes - The Acid Test
1983 George Amabile - the presence of fire
1984 Don McKay - Birding Or Desire
1985 Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy
1986 P.K. Page - The Glass Air
1987 Al Purdy - The Collected Poems, 1956-1986
1988 Patrick Lane - Selected Poems
1989 Bruce Rice - Daniel
1990 Don Bailey - Homeless Heart
1991 Richard Lemm - Preclude To The Bacchanal
1992 Anne Michaels - Miner's Pond
1993 Lorna Crozier - Inventing The Hawk
1994 George Bowering - George Bowering Selected Poems
1995 Tim Lilburn - Moosehead Sandhills
1996 Di Brandt - Jerusalem, beloved
1997 E.D. Blodgett - Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
1998 Anne Szumigalski - On Glassy Wings
1999 Janice Kulyk Keefer - Marrying the Sea
2000 Helen Humphreys - Anthem
2001 Carmine Starnino - Credo
2002 Tim Bowling - Darkness and Silence
2003 Margaret Avison - Concrete and Wild Carrot
2004 Chris Banks - Bonfires
2005 Peter Trower - Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys
2006 Barry Dempster - The Burning Alphabet
2007 Sarah Klassen - A Curious Beatitude
2008 Asa Boxer - The Mechanical Bird

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