Awarded for a book of poetry written by an author from British Columbia or the Yukon. Prior to 1989, this award was known as the BC Poetry Prize. Part of the BC Book Prizes.

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2008

• Rita Wong – Forage

Also shortlisted:

• George McWhirter – The Incorrection
• Arleen Paré – Paper Trail
• Christopher Patton – Ox
• Gillian Wigmore – Soft Geography

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2007

• Don McKay – Strike / Slip

Also shortlisted:

• Maxine Gadd – Backup to Babylon
• Steven Price – Anatomy of Keys
• Sharon Thesen – The Good Bacteria
• Terence Young – Moving Day

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2006

• Meredith Quartermain – Vancouver Walking

Also shortlisted:

• Stephen Collis – Anarchive
• Jordan Scott – Silt
• George Sipos – Anything But the Moon
• Jan Zwicky – Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

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2005

• Jan Zwicky – Robinson's Crossing

Also shortlisted:

• Aislinn Hunter – The Possible Past
• Eve Joseph – The Startled Heart
• Patrick Lane – Go Leaving Strange
• D.C. Reid – The Hunger

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2004

• Philip Kevin Paul – Taking the Names Down From the Hill

Also shortlisted:

• Marilyn Bowering – The Alchemy of Happiness
• Robert Bringhurst – Ursa Major
• Denise Cammiade – The Creature I Am
• Russell Thornton – House Built of Rain

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2003

• bill bisset – peter among th towring boxes

Also shortlisted:

• Colin Browne – Ground Water
• Marlene Cookshaw – Shameless
• Patrick Friesen – The Breath You Take From the Lord
• Tom Wayman – My Father's Cup

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2002

• Karen Solie – Short Haul Engine

Also shortlisted:

• Stephen Guppy – Understanding Heaven
• Aislinn Hunter – Into the Early Hours
• Daphne Marlatt – This Tremor Love Is
• Catherine Owen – The Wrecks of Eden

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2001

• Don McKay – Another Gravity

Also shortlisted:

• George Bowering – His Life
• Patrick Lane – The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
• John Pass – Water Stair
• Sue Wheeler – Slow-Moving Target

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2000

• Lorna Crozier – What the Living Won't Let Go

Also shortlisted:

• Wayde Compton – 49th Parallel Psalm
• Susan Musgrave – Things That Keep and Do Not Change
• D.C. Reid – Love and Other Things That Hurt
• Tom Wayman – The Colours of the Forest

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1999

• David Zieroth – How I Joined Humanity At Last

Also shortlisted:

• Patrick Friesen – St. Mary at Main
• Jan Zwicky – Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

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1998

• Patricia Young – What I Remember from My Time on Earth

Also shortlisted:

• Linda Rogers – Heaven Cake
• Lyle Neff – Ivanhoe Station

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1997

• Margo Button – The Unhinging of Wings

Also shortlisted:

• Marilyn Bowering – Autobiography
• Joyce Nelson – Seeing in the Dark

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1996

• Patrick Lane – Too Spare, Too Fierce

Also shortlisted:

• Robin Skelton – The Edge Of Time
• Kate Braid – To This Cedar Fountain

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1995

• Linda Rogers – Hard Candy

Also shortlisted:

• Aaron Bushkowsky – ed and mabel go to the moon
• Adeena Karasick – Mêmewars

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1994

• Gregory Scofield – The Gathering: Stones For The Medicine Wheel

Also shortlisted:

• Howard White – Ghost In The Gears
• Brian Brett – Poems New And Selected

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1993

• bill bissett – inkorrect thots

Also shortlisted:

• Kirsten Emmott – How Do You Feel?
• Diana Hartog – Polite to Bees: A Bestiary

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1992

• Barry McKinnon – Pulplog

Also shortlisted:

• Michael Turner – Company Town
• John Pass – The Hour's Acropolis

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1991

• Jeff Derksen – Down Time

Also shortlisted:

• Phyllis Webb – Hanging Fire
• bill bissett – hard 2 beleev

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1990

• Victoria Walker – Suitcase

Also shortlisted:

• Maureen McCarthy – The Girls In The Last Seat Waving
• Marlene Cookshaw – The Whole Elephant

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1989

• Charles Lillard – Circling North

Also shortlisted:

• Doug Beardsley – Dancing Star
• bill bissett – what we have

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1988

• Patricia Young – All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room

Also shortlisted:

• Norm Sibum – Eight Poems
• Sharon Thesen – The Beginning of the Long Dash

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1987

• Diana Hartog – Candy From Strangers

Also shortlisted:

• John Newlove – The Night the Dog Smiled
• Tom Wayman – The Face of Jack Munro

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1986

• Joe Rosenblatt – Poetry Hotel