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 B.C. 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

1986

 * Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel

1987

 * Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers
 * John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
 * Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro

1988

 * Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
 * Norm Sibum, Eight Poems
 * Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash

1989

 * Charles Lillard, Circling North
 * Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star
 * bill bissett, what we have

1990

 * Victoria Walker, Suitcase
 * Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant
 * Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving

1991

 * Jeff Derkson, Down There
 * bill bissett, hard 2 beleev
 * Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire

1992

 * Barry McKinnon, Pulplog
 * John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis
 * Michael Turner, Company Town

1993

 * bill bissett, inkorrect thoughts
 * Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel?
 * Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary

1994

 * Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
 * Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected
 * Howard White, Ghost in the Gears

1995

 * Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
 * Aaron Bushowsky, ed and mabel go to the moon
 * Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars

1996

 * Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
 * Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain
 * Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time

1997

 * Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
 * Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
 * Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark

1998

 * Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
 * Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station
 * Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake

1999

 * David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last
 * Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main
 * Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

2000

 * Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
 * Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm
 * Susan Musgrave, Things That Keep and Do Not Change
 * D.C. Reid, Love and Other Things That Hurt
 * Tom Wayman, The Colours of the Forest 

2001

 * Don McKay, Another Gravity
 * George Bowering, His Life
 * Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
 * John Pass, Water Stair
 * Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target

2002

 * Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
 * Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven
 * Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
 * Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is
 * Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden

2003

 * bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes
 * Colin Browne, Ground Water
 * Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless
 * Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord
 * Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup

2004

 * Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill
 * Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness
 * Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major
 * Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am
 * Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain

2005

 * Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
 * Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past
 * Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart
 * Patrick Lane, Go Leaving
 * D.C. Reid, The Hunger

2006

 * Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking
 * Stephen Collis, Anarchive
 * Jordan Scott, Silt
 * George Sipos, Anything But the Moon
 * Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

2007

 * Don McKay, Strike / Slip
 * Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon
 * Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
 * Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria
 * Terence Young, Moving Day

2008

 * Rita Wong, Forage
 * George McWhirter, The Incorrection
 * Christopher Patton, Ox
 * Arleen Pare, Paper Trail
 * Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography

2009

 * Daphne Marlatt, The Given
 * Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
 * Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man
 * George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
 * Karen Hofmann, Water Strider