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.

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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