Winners:

• 1981 M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
• 1982 Rona Murray, Journey
• 1983 Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
• 1984 Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant
• 1985 Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
• 1986 Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
• 1987 Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
• 1988 Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
• 1989 Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
• 1990 Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
• 1991 Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
• 1992 Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
• 1993 Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
• 1994 Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus
• 1995 Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
• 1996 Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
• 1997 Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
• 1998 Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
• 1999 Hilary Clark, More Light
• 2000 Esta Spalding, Lost August
• 2001 Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors