Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry

Recipients

Prize winners and finalists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1986	Joe Rosenblatt	Poetry Hotel	Winner
	Anne Marriott	Letters for Some Islands	Shortlist
	P. K. Page	The Glass Air	Shortlist
1987	Diana Hartog	Candy from Strangers	Winner
	John Newlove	The Night the Dog Smiled	Shortlist
	Tom Wayman	The Face of Jack Munro	Shortlist
1988	Patricia Young	All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room	Winner
	Norm Sibum	Eight Poems	Shortlist
	Sharon Thesen	The Beginning of the Long Dash	Shortlist
1989	Charles Lillard	Circling North	Winner
	Doug Beardsley	Dancing Star	Shortlist
	bill bissett	what we have	Shortlist
1990	Victoria Walker	Suitcase	Winner
	Marlene Cookshaw	The Whole Elephant	Shortlist
	Maureen McCarthy	The Girls in the Last Seat Waving	Shortlist
1991	Jeff Derksen	Down Time	Winner
	bill bissett	Hard 2 beleev	Shortlist
	Phyllis Webb	Hanging Fire	Shortlist
1992	Barry McKinnon	Pulplog	Winner
	John Pass	The Hour's Acropolis	Shortlist
	Michael Turner	Company Town	Shortlist
1993	bill bissett	Inkorrect Thots	Winner
	Kirsten Emmott	How Do You Feel?	Shortlist
	Diana Hartog	Polite to Bees: A Bestiary	Shortlist
1994	Gregory Scofield	The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel	Winner
	Brian Brett	Poems New and Selected	Shortlist
	Howard White	Ghost in the Gears	Shortlist
1995	Linda Rogers	Hard Candy	Winner
	Aaron Bushkowsky	Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon	Shortlist
	Adeena Karasick	Mêmewars	Shortlist
1996	Patrick Lane	Too Spare, Too Fierce	Winner	[1]
	Kate Braid	To this Cedar Fountain	Shortlist
	Robin Skelton	The Edge of Time	Shortlist
1997	Margo Button	The Unhinging of Wings	Winner
	Marilyn Bowering	Autobiography	Shortlist
	Joyce Nelson	Seeing in the Dark	Shortlist
1998	Patricia Young	What I Remember from My Time on Earth	Winner
	Lyle Neff	Ivanhoe Station	Shortlist
	Linda Rogers	Heaven Cake	Shortlist
1999	David Zieroth	How I Joined Humanity at Last	Winner
	Patrick Friesen	St. Mary at Main	Shortlist
	Jan Zwicky	Songs for Relinquishing the Earth	Shortlist
2000	Lorna Crozier	What the Living Won't Let Go	Winner
	Wayde Compton	49th Parallel Psalm	Shortlist
	Susan Musgrave	Things That Keep and Do Not Change	Shortlist
	D. C. Reid	Love and Other Things That Hurt	Shortlist
	Tom Wayman	The Colours of the Forest	Shortlist
2001	Don McKay	Another Gravity	Winner
	George Bowering	His Life	Shortlist
	Patrick Lane	The Bare Plum of Winter Rain	Shortlist
	John Pass	Water Stair	Shortlist
	Sue Wheeler	Slow-Moving Target	Shortlist
2002	Karen Solie	Short Haul Engine	Winner
	Stephen Guppy	Understanding Heaven	Shortlist
	Aislinn Hunter	Into the Early Hours	Shortlist
	Daphne Marlatt	This Tremor Love Is	Shortlist
	Catherine Owen	The Wrecks of Eden	Shortlist
2003	bill bissett	peter among th towring boxes / text bites	Winner
	Colin Browne	Ground Water	Shortlist
	Marlene Cookshaw	Shameless	Shortlist
	Patrick Friesen	The Breath You Take from the Lord	Shortlist
	Tom Wayman	My Father's Cup	Shortlist
2004	Philip Kevin Paul	Taking the Names Down from the Hill	Winner
	Marilyn Bowering	The Alchemy of Happiness	Shortlist
	Robert Bringhurst	Ursa Major	Shortlist
	Denise Cammiade	The Creature I Am	Shortlist
	Russell Thornton	House Built of Rain	Shortlist
2005	Jan Zwicky	Robinson's Crossing	Winner
	Aislinn Hunter	The Possible Past	Shortlist
	Eve Joseph	The Startled Heart	Shortlist
	Patrick Lane	Go Leaving	Shortlist
	D. C. Reid	The Hunger	Shortlist
2006	Meredith Quartermain	Vancouver Walking	Winner
	Stephen Collis	Anarchive	Shortlist
	Jordan Scott	Silt	Shortlist
	George Sipos	Anything But the Moon	Shortlist
	Jan Zwicky	Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences	Shortlist
2007	Don McKay	Strike / Slip	Winner
	Maxine Gadd	Backup to Babylon	Shortlist
	Steven Price	Anatomy of Keys	Shortlist
	Sharon Thesen	The Good Bacteria	Shortlist
	Terence Young	Moving Day	Shortlist
2008	Rita Wong	Forage	Winner
	George McWhirter	The Incorrection	Shortlist
	Arleen Paré	Paper Trail	Shortlist
	Christopher Patton	Ox	Shortlist
	Gillian Wigmore	Soft Geography	Shortlist
2009	Daphne Marlatt	The Given	Winner
	Karen Hofmann	Water Strider	Shortlist
	Elise Partridge	Chameleon Hours	Shortlist
	Nilofar Shidmehr	Shirin and Salt Man	Shortlist
	George Stanley	Vancouver: A Poem	Shortlist
2010	Fred Wah	Is a Door	Winner	[2]
	Gillian Jerome	Red Nest	Shortlist
	Larissa Lai	Automaton Biographies	Shortlist
	Miranda Pearson	Harbour	Shortlist
	David Zieroth	The Fly in Autumn	Shortlist
2011	Stephen Collis	On the Material	Winner	[3]
	Ken Belford	Decompositions	Shortlist	[4]
	George Bowering	My Darling Nellie Grey	Shortlist	[4]
	Jen Currin	The Inquisition Yours	Shortlist	[4]
	Eve Joseph	The Secret Signature of Things	Shortlist	[4]
2012	John Pass	Crawlspace	Winner	[5]
	Patrick Lane	The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane	Shortlist	[6]
	Susan McCaslin	Demeter Goes Skydiving	Shortlist	[6]
	Garry Thomas Morse	Discovery Passages	Shortlist	[6]
	Sharon Thesen	Oyama Pink Shale	Shortlist	[6]
2013	Sarah de Leeuw	Geographies of a Lover	Winner	[7]
	Colin Browne	The Properties	Shortlist	[8]
	Roger Farr	IKMQ	Shortlist	[8]
	Evelyn Lau	A Grain of Rice	Shortlist	[8]
	Patricia Young	Night-Eater	Shortlist	[8]
2014	Jordan Abel	The Place of Scraps	Winner	[9]
	Catherine Greenwood	The Lost Letters	Shortlist	[10]
	Jennica Harper	Wood	Shortlist	[10]
	Renée Sarojini Saklikar	children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections	Shortlist	[10]
	Russell Thornton	Birds, Metals, Stones and Raina	Shortlist	[10]
2015	Cecily Nicholson	From the Poplars	Winner	[11]
	Robert Budde	Dreamland Theatre	Shortlist	[12]
	Jen Currin	School	Shortlist	[12]
	Kayla Czaga	For Your Safety Please Hold On	Shortlist	[12]
	Patrick Lane	Washita	Shortlist	[12]
2016	Raoul Fernandes	Transmitter and Receiver	Winner	[13]
	Ali Blythe	Twoism	Shortlist
	Amber Dawn	Where the words end and my body begins	Shortlist
	Miranda Pearson	The Fire Extinguisher	Shortlist
	Jeff Steudel	Foreign Park	Shortlist
2017	Adèle Barclay	If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You	Winner	[14]
	Juliane Okot Bitek	100 Days	Shortlist
	Anne Fleming	poemw	Shortlist
	Rob Taylor	The News	Shortlist
	Richard Therrien	Sleeping in Tall Grass	Shortlist
2018	Mercedes Eng	Prison Industrial Complex Explodes	Winner	[15]
	Rhonda Ganz	Frequent, small loads of laundry	Shortlist	[16]
	Jónína Kirton	An Honest Woman	Shortlist	[16]
	Julie Paul	The Rules of the Kingdom	Shortlist	[16]
	Onjana Yawnghwe	Fragments, Desire	Shortlist	[16]
2019	Laisha Rosnau	Our Familiar Hunger	Winner	[17]
	Eve Joseph	Quarrels	Shortlist
	Shazia Hafiz Ramji	Port of Being	Shortlist	[18]
	Fred Wah and Rita Wong	beholden, a poem as long as the river	Shortlist
	Onjana Yawnghwe	The Small Way	Shortlist
2020	Chantal Gibson	How She Read	Winner	[19][20]
	Ali Blythe	Hymnswitch	Shortlist	[21]
	Kayla Czaga	Dunk Tank	Shortlist	[21]
	Joseph A. Dandurand	SH:LAM (The Doctor)	Shortlist	[21]
	Sonnet L’Abbé	Sonnet's Shakespeare	Shortlist	[21]
2021	Michael Prior	Burning Province	Winner	[22][23]
	Joseph A. Dandurand	The East Side of It All	Shortlist	[24]
	Junie Désil	eat salt | gaze at the ocean	Shortlist	[24]
	Valerie Mason-John	I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin	Shortlist	[24]
	Fred Wah	Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170	Shortlist	[24]
2022	Henry Doyle	No Shelter	Winner	[25]
	Jenny Boychuk	Antonyms for Daughter	Shortlist	[26]
	shauna paull	blue gait	Shortlist	[26]
	Matt Rader	Ghosthawk	Shortlist	[26]
	Isabella Wang	Pebble Swing	Shortlist	[26]
2023	Otoniya J. Okot Bitek	A is for Acholi	Shortlist	[27]
	Megan Fennya Jones	The Program	Shortlist	[27]
	Cecily Nicholson	HARROWINGS	Shortlist	[27]
	Tolu Oloruntoba	Each One a Furnace	Shortlist	[27]
	Sheryda Warrener	Test Piece	Shortlist	[27]

See also

• Canadian poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

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External links

• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Archived 2017-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, official website
• BC Book Prizes Web site