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	Winner	Nominated
2013	A. F. Moritz, The New Measures[2]	John Wall Barger, Hummingbird 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[1] Vancy Kasper, Rebel Women[1] John Terpstra, Brilliant Falls[1] Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain[1]
2015	Patrick Lane, Washita	Catherine Kidd, Hyena Subpoena Susan Paddon, Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths Laisha Rosnau, Pluck Adam Sol, Complicity Rachel Zolf, Janey's Arcadia
2016	Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat[3]	Marilyn Dumont, The Pemmican Eaters 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[4]	Barry Dempster, Disturbing the Buddha 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[5]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World 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[6]	Adam Dickinson, Anatomic Alice Major, Welcome to the Anthropocene David Martin, Tar Swan Jim Nason, Rooster, Dog, Crow Kim Trainor, Ledi
2020	Roxanna Bennett, Unmeaningable[7]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms Sonnet L'Abbé, Sonnet's Shakespeare Cassidy McFadzean, Drolleries Shane Neilson, New Brunswick Douglas Walbourne-Gough, Crow Gulch

References

1. "Local poet wins national prize". Telegraph-Journal, June 12, 2014.
2. "A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". National Post, June 15, 2013.
3. "Poet talks age, animals, place; Crozier reflects on national awards, 'mini novels'". Vancouver Sun, August 20, 2016.
4. "Poet's powerful work on her past wins major prize". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, November 16, 2017.
5. "The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards". Quill & Quire, June 18, 2018.
6. "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
7. Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020.