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."Local poet wins national prize". Telegraph-Journal, June 12, 2014.
The award was presented for the first time in 2013,"A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". National Post, June 15, 2013. and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.
Nominees and winners YearAuthorTitleRef. 2013 A. F. Moritz The New Measures 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 Jen Butler Seldom Seen Road 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 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 "Poet talks age, animals, place; Crozier reflects on national awards, 'mini novels'". Vancouver Sun, August 20, 2016. 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 "Poet's powerful work on her past wins major prize". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, November 16, 2017. 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 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 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 Billy-Ray Belcourt NDN Coping Mechanisms Sonnet L'Abbé Sonnet's Shakespeare Cassidy McFadzean Drolleries Shane Neilson New Brunswick Douglas Walbourne-Gough Crow Gulch 2021 Ian Williams Word Problems Sadiqa de Meijer The Outer Wards Klara du Plessis Hell Light Flesh Jessie Jones The Fool Michael Prior Burning Province John Elizabeth Stintzi Junebat 2022 Roxanna Bennett The Untranslatable I Síle Englert The Lost Time Accidents 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 Aaron Kreuter Shifting Baseline Syndrome 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 "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024. Roxanna Bennett Uncomfortability Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2024 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, April 17, 2024. 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: Twice2025 Chimwemwe Undi Scientific Marvel Cassandra Drudi, "Indie titles sweep 2025 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, May 14, 2025. Manahil Bandukwala Heliotropia Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2025 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, May 7, 2025. Zehra Naqvi The Knot of My Tongue Jane Shi echolalia echolalia Rob Taylor Weather shō yamagushiku shima
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