The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
History[]
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) both received the Governor General's Award for Poetry.
Winners and nominees[]
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
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See also[]
External links[]
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at BC Book Prizes
- Previous winners at BC Book Prizes
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