Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
# Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Der Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize ist ein kanadischer Literaturpreis, der seit 1986 besteht und zu den BC Book Prizes gehört.

Er wird alljährlich im April der besten Gedichtsammlung verliehen, deren Verfasser ein Einwohner von British Columbia, Kanada, oder des Yukon-Territoriums ist. Die Preisträger müssen keine kanadischen Staatsbürger sein, sondern mindestens drei der letzten fünf Jahre in British Columbia oder dem Yukon-Gebiet gewohnt haben. Dabei können die Bücher auch in anderen Regionen oder Ländern erschienen sein. Ursprünglich wurde der Preis als B.C. Prize for Poetry bezeichnet, aber seit 1989 zu Ehren der Dichterin Dorothy Livesay, deren Gedichtsammlungen Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) den Governor General’s Award for Poetry erhalten hatten, umbenannt. Der Gewinner des Jahres 2011 wurde von den Gastgebern Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen im Kay Meek Centre, Vancouver, am 21. April 2011 im Rahmen der Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala verkündet. Die jeweilige Shortlist eines Jahrgangs wird im März bekannt gegeben.

## Preisträger und Nominierte

### 1986

* Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel

### 1987

* Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers
* John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
* Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro

### 1988

* Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
* Norm Sibum, Eight Poems
* Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash

### 1989

* Charles Lillard, Circling North
* Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star
* bill bissett, what we have

### 1990

* Victoria Walker, Suitcase
* Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant
* Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving

### 1991

* Jeff Derkson, Down There
* bill bissett, hard 2 beleev
* Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire

### 1992

* Barry McKinnon, Pulplog
* John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis
* Michael Turner, Company Town

### 1993

* bill bissett, inkorrect thoughts
* Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel?
* Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary

### 1994

* Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
* Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected
* Howard White, Ghost in the Gears

### 1995

* Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
* Aaron Bushowsky, ed and mabel go to the moon
* Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars

### 1996

* Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
* Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain
* Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time

### 1997

* Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
* Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
* Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark

### 1998

* Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
* Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station
* Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake

### 1999

* David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last
* Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main
* Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

### 2000

* Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
* 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

### 2001

* Don McKay, Another Gravity
* George Bowering, His Life
* Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
* John Pass, Water Stair
* Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target

### 2002

* Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
* Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven
* Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
* Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is
* Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden

### 2003

* bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes
* Colin Browne, Ground Water
* Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless
* Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord
* Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup

### 2004

* Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill
* Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness
* Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major
* Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am
* Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain

### 2005

* Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
* Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past
* Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart
* Patrick Lane, Go Leaving
* D.C. Reid, The Hunger

### 2006

* Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking
* Stephen Collis, Anarchive
* Jordan Scott, Silt
* George Sipos, Anything But the Moon
* Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

### 2007

* Don McKay, Strike / Slip
* Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon
* Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
* Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria
* Terence Young, Moving Day

### 2008

* Rita Wong, Forage
* George McWhirter, The Incorrection
* Christopher Patton, Ox
* Arleen Pare, Paper Trail
* Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography

### 2009

* Daphne Marlatt, The Given
* Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
* Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man
* George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
* Karen Hofmann, Water Strider

### 2010

* Fred Wah, is a door
* Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies
* David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn
* Miranda Pearson, Harbour
* Gillian Jerome, Red Nest

### 2011

* Stephen Collis, On the Material
* Ken Belford, Decompositions
* Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
* George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey
* Eve Joseph, The Secret Signature of Things

### 2012

* John Pass, crawlspace
* Patrick Lane, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
* Susan McCaslin, Demeter Goes Skydiving
* Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages
* Sharon Thesen, Oyama Pink Shale

### 2013

* Sarah de Leeuw, Geographies of a Lover
* Evelyn Lau, A Grain of Rice
* Roger Farr, IKMQ
* Patricia Young, Night-Eater
* Colin Browne, The Properties

### 2014

* Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps
* Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters
* Jennica Harper, Wood
* Renée Sarojini Saklikar, children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections
* Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain

### 2015

* Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars
* Robert Budde, Dreamland Theatre
* Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On
* Jen Currin, School
* Patrick Lane, Washita

### 2016

* Raoul Fernandes, Transmitter and Receiver

### 2017

* Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You

### 2018

* Mercedes Eng, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes

### 2019

* Laisha Rosnau, Our Familiar Hunger

### 2020

* Chantal Gibson, How She Read

### 2021

* Michael Prior, Burning Province
