ReLit Awards
Poetry

The ReLit Award for Poetry is given for a book of poetry written by a Canadian author living in Canada and published by an independent Canadian literary publisher.
indicates a review is available for that book
2014
- Charmaine Cadeau – Placeholder
Also shortlisted:
- Stephen Brockwell – Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books
- Jason Camlot – What the World Said
- Kate Cayley – When This World Comes to an End
- Margaret Christakos – Multitudes
- Jim Christy – The Cockeyed World
- Amber Dawn – How Poetry Saved My Life
- Dina Del Bucchia – Coping with Emotions and Otters
- Adam Dickinson – The Polymers
- Glen Downie – Monkey Soap
- Catherine Greenwood – The Lost Letters
- Kevin McPherson Eckhoff – Forge
- Niki Koulouris – The Sea with No One in It
- Daphne Marlatt – Liquidities
- Sharon McCartney – Hard Ass
- David O'Meara – A Pretty Sight
- Robin Richardson – Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
- Stan Rogal – Love's Not the Way to
- Stuart Ross – Our Days in Vaudeville
- David Seymour – For Display Purposes Only
- Ann Shin – The Family China
- Jacqueline Turner – The Ends of the Earth
2013
- Steven Price – Omens in the Year of the Ox
Also shortlisted:
- Ronna Bloom – Cloudy with a Fire in the Basement
- Cliff Burns – New and Selected Poems
- Jason Heroux – Natural Capital
- Leah Horlick – Riot Lung
- Grant Loveys – Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed
- Christine McNair – Conflict
- Erin Moure – The Unmemntioable
- Catherine Owen – Trobairitz
- Ian Williams – Personals
2012
- Patrick Friesen – Jumping in the Asylum
Also shortlisted:
- Sean Johnston – The Ditch was Lit Like This
- Robin Richardson – Grunt of the Minotaur
- Sandra Ridley – Post-apothecary
- Cornelia Hoogland – Woods Wolf Girl
- Joel Thomas Hynes – Straight Razor Days
2011
- Dani Couture – Sweet
Also shortlisted:
- Jen Currin – The Inquisition Years
- Adam Seelig – Every Day in the Morning (Slow)
- Meaghan Strimas – A Good Time Had by All
- Steve McOrmond – The Good News About Armageddon
- Ian Williams – You Know Who You Are
- Jim Christy – Marimba Forever
2010
- Gillian Jerome – Red Nest
Also shortlisted:
- Gregory Betts – The Others Raisd in Me
- Sky Gilbert – A Nice Place to Visit
- Michael Kenyon – The Last House
- Lisa Robertson – Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
- Damian Rogers – Paper Radio
- Patrick Woodcock – Always Die Before Your Mother
2009
- Maurice Mierau – Fear Not
Also shortlisted:
- David O'Meara – Noble Gas, Penny Black
- Philip Kevin Paul – Little Hunger
- Stuart Ross – Dead Cars in Managua
- Shannon Stewart – Penny Dreadful
- RM Vaughan – Troubled
- Fred Wah – Sentenced to Light
2008
- Gillian Wigmore – Soft Geography
Also shortlisted:
- Colin Browne – The Shovel
- Marita Dachsel – All Things Said & Done
- Donato Mancini – AEthel
- David McGimpsey – Sitcom
- Nadine McInnis – Two Hemispheres
- Stuart Ross – I Cut My Finger
2007
- Daniel Scott Tysdal – Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
Also shortlisted:
- George Elliott Clarke – Black
- Susan Elmslie – I, Nadja, and Other Poems
- Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry – Apostrophe
- Esther Mazakian – All the Lifters
- K.I. Press – Types of Canadian Women
- Ali Riley – Tear Down
- Michael V. Smith – What You Can't Have
- Sharon Thesen – The Good Bacteria
2006
- Leon Rooke – Hot Poppies
Also shortlisted:
- B. W. Powe – The Unsaid Passing
- Donato Mancini – Ligatures
- Eric Miller – In the Scaffolding
2005
- A.F. Moritz – Night Street Repairs
Also shortlisted:
- Aislinn Hunter – The Possible Past
- Pierre Nepveu – Mirabel
- Mark Truscott – Said Like Reeds or Things
2004
- Souvankham Thammavongsa – Small Arguments
Also shortlisted:
- Gil Adamson – Ashland
- David O'Meara – The Vicinity
- Russell Thornton – House Built of Rain
2003
- Margaret Christakos – Excessive Love Prostheses
Also shortlisted:
- Steve McCaffery – Seven Pages Missing (Volume 2)
- Jay Millar – Mycological Studies
- Lise Downe – Disturbances of Progress
2001
- S.D. Johnson – Hymns to Phenomena