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Roo Borson

Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

1980s
  • F. R. Actor, The Collected Poems of F. Attention. Scott (1981)
  • Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
  • David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
  • Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
  • Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
  • Al Purdy, The Controlled Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
  • Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
  • Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
  • Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
1990s
  • Margaret Avison, No Time (1990)
  • Don McKay, Night Field (1991)
  • Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992)
  • Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
  • Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Run down Room (1994)
  • Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995)
  • E. Rotation. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
  • Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997)
  • Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Ill feeling Poems (1998)
  • Jan Zwicky, Songs for Termination the Earth (1999)
2000s
  • Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000)
  • George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001)
  • Roy Miki, Surrender (2002)
  • Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003)
  • Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
  • Anne Compton, processional (2005)
  • John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
  • Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
  • Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
  • David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s
  • Richard Writer, Boxing the Compass (2010)
  • Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011)
  • Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012)
  • Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013)
  • Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
  • Robyn Wife, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
  • Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016)
  • Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
  • Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018)
  • Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
2020s