This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama. The award was created in 1937, the second year of the awards, and existed until 1980, when it was split into separate awards for poetry and drama.
1930's
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- 1937: E.J. Pratt, The Fable of the Goats, and other poems
- 1938: Kenneth Leslie, By Stubborn Stars
- 1939: Arthur Bourinot Under the Sun
1940'sEdit
- 1940: E.J. Pratt, Brebeuf and His Brethren
- 1941: Anne Marriott, Calling Adventurers!
- 1942: Earle Birney, David, and other poems
- 1943: A.J.M. Smith, News of the Phoenix, and other poems
- 1944: Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night
- 1945: Earle Birney, Now is Time
- 1946: Robert Finch , Poems
- 1947: Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People
- 1948: A.M. Klein, The Rocking Chair, and other poems
- 1949: James Reaney, The Red Heart
1950'sEdit
- 1950: James Wreford, Of Time and the Lover
- 1951: Charles Bruce, The Mulgrave Road
- 1952: E.J. Pratt, Towards the Last Spike
- 1953: Douglas LePan, The Net and the Sword
- 1954: P.K. Page, The Metal and the Flower
- 1955: Wilfred Watson, Friday's Child
- 1956: Robert A.D. Ford, A Window on the North
- 1957: Jay Macpherson, The Boatman
- 1958: James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles
- 1959: Irving Layton, Red Carpet for the Sun
1960'sEdit
- 1960: Margaret Avison, Winter Sun
- 1961: Robert Finch , Acis in Oxford
- 1962: James Reaney, Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Killdeer, and other plays
- 1963: (none)
- 1964: Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times
- 1965: Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses
- 1966: Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game
- 1967: Alden Nowlan, Bread, Wine and Salt and Eli Mandel, An Idiot Joy
- 1968: Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-68
- 1969: George Bowering, Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos and Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow-Maker
1970'sEdit
- 1970: Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and bpNichol, The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid
- 1971: John Glassco, Selected Poems
- 1972: John Newlove, Lies and Dennis Lee , Civil Elegies and Other Poems
- 1973: Miriam Mandel, Lions at her Face
- 1974: Ralph Gustafson, Fire on Stone
- 1975: Milton Acorn, The Island Means Minago
- 1976: Joe Rosenblatt, Top Soil
- 1977: D.G. Jones, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth
- 1978: Patrick Lane, Poems New and Selected
- 1979: Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
1980'sEdit
- 1980: Stephen Scobie, McAlmon's Chinese Opera
See alsoEdit
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