Archibald Lampman Award – previous winners

The Archibald Lampman Award recognizes an outstanding book of English-language poetry by an author living in the National Capital Region.

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Previous Winners

Year	Winner	Book	Judges
2021	Deborah-Anne Tunney	A Different Wolf (McGill-Queen’s University Press)	Mike Chaulk, Rasiqra Revulva, & Jane Munro
2020	Ben Ladouceur	Mad Long Emotion (Coach House Books)	Lucas Crawford, Robin Richardson, & Douglas Walbourne-Gough
2019	Jenny Haysom	Dividing the Wayside (Palimpsest Press)	Dane Swan & Gillian Sze
2018	Christine McNair	Charm (Book*hug)	Jónína Kirton, Jennifer LoveGrove, & Rob Taylor
2017	Stephen Brockwell	All of Us Reticent, Here, Together (Mansfield Press)	Adrienne Gruber, George Murray & Moez Surani
2016	Pearl Pirie	the pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug)	Liz Howard, Sachiko Murakami & Shane Book
2015	Shane Book	Congotronic (House of Anansi)	Arleen Paré, E. Alex Pierce, & David O’Meara
2014	David O’Meara	A Pretty Sight (Coach House Books)	Stan Dragland, Katherina Vermette & Adam Dickinson
2013	Nina Berkhout	Elseworlds (Seraphim Editions)	Priscila Uppal, Andris Taskans & Robin Richardson
2012	Michael Blouin	Wore Down Trust (Pedlar Press)	Christian Bök, Marilyn Bowering & Susan Musgrave
2011	Paul Tyler	A Short History of Forgetting (Gaspereau Press)	Anne Compton, Ian LeTourneau & Ross Leckie
2010	Craig Poile	True Concessions (Goose Lane Editions)	Matthew Tierney, Susan Gillis & Andrew Steeves
2009	David O’Meara	Noble Gas, Penny Black (Brick Books)	Sandy Shreve, Mark Abley & Meredith Quartermain
2008	Shane Rhodes	The Bindery (NeWest Press)	Michael de Beyer, Alison Pick & Harold Rhenisch
2007	Monty Reid	Disappointment Island (Chaudiere Books)	Stephen Guppy, Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen & Sue Sinclair
2006	Laura Farina	This Woman Alphabetical (Pedlar Press)	Sue Goyette, Ken Howe & Sue Wheeler
2005	Stephen Brockwell	Fruitfly Geographic (ECW Press)	Jeanette Lynes, matt robinson, Russell Thornton
2004	David O’Meara	The Vicinity (Brick Books)	Brian Bartlett, Stephanie Bolster & Aislinn Hunter
2003	Shane Rhodes	Holding Pattern (NeWest Press)	Tim Bowling, John Steffler & Rhea Tregebor
2002	Armand Garnet Ruffo	At Geronimo’s Grave (Coteau Books)
2001	Colin Morton	Coastlines of the Archipelago (BuschekBooks)
2000	Stephanie Bolster	Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart)
1999	John Barton	Sweet Ellipsis
1998	Sandra Nicholls	Woman of Sticks, Woman of Stones
1997	Diana Brebner	Flora & Fauna
1996	Gary Geddes	The Perfect Cold Warrior
1995	John Barton	Designs from the Interior
1994	John Newlove	Apology for Absence Selected Poems 1962-1992
1993	Marianne Bluger	Summer Grass
1992	Blaine Marchand	A Garden Enclosed
1991	George Elliot Clarke	Wylah Falls
1990	Gary Geddes	No Easy Exit
1989	Patrick White	Habitable Planets
1988	John Barton	West of Darkness
1987	Christopher Levenson	Arriving at Night
1986	Colin Morton	This Won’t Last Forever