Saskatchewan Book Awards
Poetry

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The Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry is presented to a Saskatchewan author for the best book of poetry.

indicates a review is available for that book

2014

  • Paul Wilson – The Invisible Library

Also shortlisted:

  • Gary Chappell – Full Throttle
  • Mari-Lou Rowley – Unus Mundus

2013

  • Barbara Langhorst – Restless White Fields

Also shortlisted:

  • Leah Horlick – Riot Lung
  • Jeanette Lynes – Archive of the Undressed
  • Brenda Schmidt – Grid

2011

  • Thelma Poirier – Rock Creek Blues

Also shortlisted:

  • Bill Blum – Picking Roots
  • Don Kerr – Wind Thrashing Your Heart
  • Adam Pottle – beautiful mutants

2010

  • Dave Margoshes – Dimensions of an Orchard

Also shortlisted:

  • Tracy Hamon – Interruptions in Glass
  • Don Kerr – The dust of just beginning
  • Andrew Stubbs – Endgames

2009

Also shortlisted:

  • Robert Currie – Witness
  • Dave Margoshes – The Horse Knows the Way
  • Andrew Stubbs – White Light Primitive

2008

  • Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected

Also shortlisted:

  • Christi Belcourt – Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Métis Plant Use
  • Louise Bernice Halfe – The Crooked Good
  • Barbara Klar – Cypress
  • Taylor Leedahl – No Apologies for the Weather
  • Mari-Lou Rowley – Suicide Psalms
  • Allan Safarik – Yellowgrass

2007

  • Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm

Also shortlisted:

  • Elizabeth Philips – Torch River
  • Steven Ross Smith – fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround

2006

  • Daniel Scott Tysdal – Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method

Also shortlisted:

  • Doris Bircham – Where Blue Grama Grows
  • Don Kerr – My Own Places: Poems on John Constable
  • Katherine Lawrence – Lying to Our Mothers
  • Sylvia Legris – Nerve Squall
  • Jennifer Still – Saltations

2005

  • Allan Safarik – When Light Falls from the Sun

Also shortlisted:

  • Carla Braidek – Carrying the Sun
  • John Livingstone Clark – Poems from a Broken Body
  • Neal McLeod – Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow
  • Wynne Nicholson – Small Gifts
  • Kathleen Wall – Time's Body

2004

Also shortlisted:

  • Laura Burkhart – Venus Rising
  • Jeanne-Marie de Moissac – Slow Curve
  • Garry Radison – Under a Small Moon
  • Dolores Reimer – Stone Baby
  • Allan Safarik – Blood of Angels

2003

  • Elizabeth Brewster – Jacob's Dream

Also shortlisted:

  • Hilary Clark – The Dwelling of Weather
  • John Livingstone Clark – Body and Soul
  • Tim Lilburn – Kill-site
  • Lynda Monahan – What My Body Knows
  • Allan Safarik – Bird Writer's Handbook

2002

  • Sheri Benning – Earth After Rain

Also shortlisted:

  • Brenda Schmidt – A Haunting Sun

2001

  • Ken Howe – Household Hints for the End of Time

Also shortlisted:

  • Gerald Hill – The Man from Saskatchewan
  • Shelley A. Leedahl – Talking Down the Northern Lights
  • Dave Margoshes – Purity of Absence
  • Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here

2000

  • Elizabeth Philips – A Blue with Blood in It

Also shortlisted:

  • Allan Safarik – How I Know the Sky Is a River
  • Steven Ross Smith – The Book of Emmett
  • Maury Wrubleski – Controlled Burn

1999

  • Hilary Clark – More Light

Also shortlisted:

  • John Livingstone Clark – Stream Under Flight
  • Barbara Klar – The Blue Field
  • Tim Lilburn – To the River
  • Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape

1998

  • Steven Michael Berzensky – Variations on the Birth of Jacob

Also shortlisted:

  • Elizabeth Brewster – Garden of Sculpture
  • Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World
  • Louise Bernice Halfe – Blue Marrow
  • Don Kerr – Autodidactic
  • Glen Sorestad – Icons of Flesh

1997

  • Anne Szumigalski – On Glassy Wings: Poems New and Selected

Also shortlisted:

  • William Robertson – Somewhere Else
  • Allan Safarik – All Night Highway

1996

  • Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen – Clay Birds

Also shortlisted:

  • John Livingstone Clark – Prayers and Other Unfinished Letters
  • John V. Hicks – Overheard by Conifers

1995

  • Elizabeth Philips – Beyond My Keeping

Also shortlisted:

  • Elizabeth Brewster – Footnotes To The Book Of Job
  • Anne Szumigalski & Marie Elyse St. George – Voice