Raymond Souster Award

The Raymond Souster Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets to a book judged as the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet in the previous year.[1]

The award was presented for the first time in 2013,[2] and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.

Nominees and winners

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
2013	A. F. Moritz	The New Measures	[2]
	John Wall Barger	Hummingbird	[3]
	Nancy Holmes	The Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems
	Mark Lavorato	Wayworn Wooden Floors
	Emily McGiffin	Between Dusk and Night
	Pamela Porter	no ordinary place
2014	Anne Compton	Alongside	[1]
	Jen Butler	Seldom Seen Road	[1]
	Catherine Graham	Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects
	Vancy Kasper	Rebel Women
	John Terpstra	Brilliant Falls
	Russell Thornton	Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
2015	Patrick Lane	Washita	[4]
	Catherine Kidd	Hyena Subpoena	[5]
	Susan Paddon	Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
	Laisha Rosnau	Pluck
	Adam Sol	Complicity
	Rachel Zolf	Janey's Arcadia
2016	Lorna Crozier	The Wrong Cat	[6]
	Marilyn Dumont	The Pemmican Eaters	[7]
	Maureen Hynes	The Poison Colour
	Alice Major	Standard Candles
	Bruce Meyer	The Arrow of Time
	Armand Garnet Ruffo	The Thunderbird Poems
2017	Louise Bernice Halfe	Burning in this Midnight Dream	[8]
	Barry Dempster	Disturbing the Buddha	[9]
	Beth Everest	silent sister: the mastectomy poems
	Elee Kraljii Gardiner	Serpentine Loop
	Steven Heighton	The Waking Comes Late
	Dean Steadman	Après Satie – For Two and Four Hands
2018	Karen Enns	Cloud Physics	[10]
	Billy-Ray Belcourt	This Wound Is a World	[11]
	Puneet Dutt	The Better Monsters
	Benjamin Hertwig	Slow War
	Cornelia Hoogland	Trailer Park Elegy
	Canisia Lubrin	Voodoo Hypothesis
2019	Stevie Howell	I left nothing inside on purpose	[12]
	Adam Dickinson	Anatomic	[13]
	Alice Major	Welcome to the Anthropocene
	David Martin	Tar Swan
	Jim Nason	Rooster, Dog, Crow
	Kim Trainor	Ledi
2020	Roxanna Bennett	Unmeaningable	[14]
	Billy-Ray Belcourt	NDN Coping Mechanisms	[15]
	Sonnet L'Abbé	Sonnet's Shakespeare
	Cassidy McFadzean	Drolleries
	Shane Neilson	New Brunswick
	Douglas Walbourne-Gough	Crow Gulch
2021	Ian Williams	Word Problems	[16]
	Sadiqa de Meijer	The Outer Wards	[17]
	Klara du Plessis	Hell Light Flesh
	Jessie Jones	The Fool
	Michael Prior	Burning Province
	John Elizabeth Stintzi	Junebat
2022	Roxanna Bennett	The Untranslatable I	[18]
	Síle Englert	The Lost Time Accidents	[19]
	Louise Bernice Halfe	awâsis – kinky and dishevelled
	Leah Horlick	Moldovan Hotel
	D. A. Lockhart	Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli
	Adam Sol	Broken Dawn Blessings
	John Wall Barger	Resurrection Fail
2023	Adebe DeRango-Adem	Vox Humana	[20]
	Aaron Kreuter	Shifting Baseline Syndrome	[21]
	Alycia Pirmohamed	Another Way to Split Water
	Olive Senior	Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems
	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang	Grappling Hook
	Matthew James Weigel	Whitemud Walking
2024	Bradley Peters	Sonnets from a Cell	[22]
	Roxanna Bennett	Uncomfortability	[23]
	Brandi Bird	The All + Flesh
	D. M. Bradford	Bottom Rail on Top
	Wanda John-Kehewin	Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân
	T. Liem	Slows: Twice

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