This is a list of recipients and nominees 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. (en)
Voici une liste des lauréats du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie poésie de langue anglaise.Ce prix fut décerné pour la première fois en 1981, quand la catégorie poésie ou théâtre de langue anglaise fut scindée en deux. * 1981 - F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott * 1982 - , The Vision Tree: Selected Poems * 1983 - , Settlements * 1984 - , Celestial Navigation * 1985 - Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan * 1986 - , The Collected Poems of Al Purdy * 1987 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds * 1988 - Erin Mouré, Furious * 1989 - , The Word for Sand * 1990 - , No Time * 1991 - Don McKay, Night Field * 1992 - Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk * 1993 - , Forests of the Medieval World * 1994 - , Cantos from a Small Room * 1995 - , Voice * 1996 - , Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano * 1997 - Dionne Brand, Land to Light On * 1998 - Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems * 1999 - , Songs for Relinquishing the Earth * 2000 - Don McKay, Another Gravity * 2001 - George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems * 2002 - , Surrender * 2003 - , Kill-site * 2004 - , Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida * 2005 - , Processional * 2006 - , Stumbling in the Bloom * 2007 - , All Our Wonder Unavenged * 2008 - , More to Keep Us Warm * 2009 - , The Fly in Autumn * 2010 - , More to Keep Us Warm * 2011 - , Killdeer * 2012 - , Monkey Ranch * 2013 - , North End Love Songs * 2014 - , Lake of Two Mountains * 2015 - Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me * 2016 - , The Waking Comes Late * 2017 - , On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood * 2018 - , Wayside Sang * 2019 - , Holy Wild * 2020 - Anne Carson, Norma Jean Baker of Troy * 2021 - , The Junta of Happenstance * 2022 - , Shadow Blight (fr)