- Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama
This is a list of the winners of the Canadian
Governor General's Award for English languagepoetry ordrama . This award was created in 1937, the second year of the awards, and existed until 1980, when it was split into the separate poetry award and drama award.Winners
*1937 –
E. J. Pratt , "The Fable of the Goats"
*1938 –Kenneth Leslie , "By Stubborn Stars"
*1939 –Arthur S. Bourinot "Under the Sun"
*1940 –E. J. Pratt , "Brébeuf and His Brethren"
*1941 –Anne Marriott , "Calling Adventurers"
*1942 –Earle Birney , "David and Other Poems"
*1943 –A.J.M. Smith , "News of the Phoenix"
*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 –James Wreford Watson , "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 –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" andEli Mandel , "An Idiot Joy"
*1968 –Leonard Cohen , "Selected Poems 1956–68"
*1969 –George Bowering , "Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos" andGwendolyn MacEwen , "The Shadow-Maker"
*1970 –Michael Ondaatje , "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" andbpNichol , "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 –Stephen Scobie , "McAlmon's Chinese Opera"
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