Governor General's Award for English language poetry

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This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.

1980s

 * 1981: F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
 * 1982: Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
 * 1983: David Donnell, Settlements
 * 1984: Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
 * 1985: Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan
 * 1986: Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
 * 1987: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
 * 1988: Erin MourÃ©, Furious
 * 1989: Heather Spears, The Word for Sand

1990s

 * 1990: Margaret Avison, No Time
 * 1991: Don McKay, Night Field
 * 1992: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
 * 1993: Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World
 * 1994: Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room
 * 1995: Anne Szumigalski, Voice
 * 1996: E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
 * 1997: Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
 * 1998: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
 * 1999: Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

2000s

 * 2000: Don McKay, Another Gravity
 * 2001: George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems
 * 2002: Roy Miki, Surrender
 * 2003: Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
 * 2004: Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
 * 2005: Anne Compton, Processional
 * 2006: John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom
 * 2007: Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged
 * 2008: Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm
 * 2009: David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn

2010s

 * 2010: Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass