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, Collected Poems
- 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, Collected Poems
- 1987: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
- 1988: Erin Mouré , 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
- 2011: Phil Hall, Killdeer
- 2012: Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch
- 2013: Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs
- 2014: Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains
- 2015: Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me
- 2016: Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
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