2025
| Feature Review | The Unrelenting Witness | natalie hanna | |
| Brief Review | How to Close Read a Family: Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze | Jane Shi | |
| Judge | Dani Spinosa |
2024
| Feature Review | Lightning from a Clear Blue Sky | Kim Trainor | |
| Brief Review | On Surviving: Conyer Clayton’s But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves | Elena Bentley | |
| Judge | Julia Polyck-O’Neill |
2023
| Feature Review | Ecosystems of Existence | Margartya Golovchenko | |
| Brief Review | A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis | Shazia Hafiz Ramji | |
| Judge | Sarah Dowling |
2022
| Feature Review | Verso Versus Verso: Jodan Abel, Dionne Brand, and the Left-Hand Page | Klara du Plessis | |
| Brief Review | Dealing the Deck: The Only Card in a Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner | Lauren TurnerTanis MacDonald | |
| Judge | Susan Gillis |
2021
| Feature Review | Whose Voice Are You Resounding? | Marilyn Dumont | |
| Brief Review | Ambivalent Inheritance: my yt mama by Mercedes Eng | Carolyn NakagawaMercedes Eng | |
| Judge | Adrian De Leon |
2020
| Feature Review | In Search of Home: Three Perspectives on What It Means to Belong | Sanchari Sur | |
| Brief Review | Ekke by Klara du Plessis | Carl Watts | |
| Judge | Shane Neilson |
2019
| Feature Review | Re-Membering the Body: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s There Should Be Flowers | Kai Cheng Thom | |
| Brief Review | Après Satie—For Two and Four Hands by Dean Steadman | Kim Trainor | |
| Judge | Jacqueline Valencia |
2018
| Feature Review | Making Love to Make Live: Kihcihtâkosiwi-Nikamowin | Joshua Whitehead | |
| Brief Review | There’s Stuff Between Things: Aisha Sasha John’s I have to live | Aisha Sasha JohnSarah Burgoyne | |
| Judge | Adèle Barclay |
2017
| Feature Review | Reports, Laments, Rituals, Rumours | Ben Gallagher | |
| Brief Review | Imagining a Legacy: Elise Partridge's The Exiles’ Gallery | Elise PartridgePhoebe Wang | |
| Judge | Adele Barclay |
2016
| Feature Review | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | Patricia Keeney | |
| Brief Review | The Counting House by Sandra Ridley | Jamie Bradley |
2015
| Feature Review | Weight, Rise and Riffle: Jordan Abel’s Exuberant Excisions in The Place of Scraps | Jordan AbelMargaret Christakos | |
| Brief Review | The Limits of Energy: Richard Norman’s Zero Kelvin | Rachael WyattRichard Norman | |
| Judge | Lucas Crawford |
2014
| Feature Review | Seasoned Poets and Pioneers | Patricia Keeney | |
| Brief Review | Red Doc by Anne Carson | Margaret Christakos | |
| Judge | Shannon Webb-Campbell |
2013
| Feature Review | Poet vs. Poet online: Keeney on the 2010 GG shortlist | Daryl HineMelanie SiebertMichael HarrisPatricia KeeneyRichard GreeneSandy Pool | |
| Brief Review | Lane tough as ever, but throwing the same old punches: Patrick Lane’ Witness: Selected Poems | Patrick LaneShane Neilson | |
| Judge | Luke Hathaway |
2011
| Brief Review | Dead Cars in Managua by Stuart Ross | Chris Jennings | |
| Judge | Judith Herz |
2009
| Feature Review | Arriving Early: on David O’Meara | Carmine StarninoDavid O’Meara | |
| Brief Review | Breathing and Noticing: Brian Bartlett’s Ringing Here and There | Barbara MyersBrian Bartlett | |
| Judge | Russell Brown |
2008
| Feature Review | “Poetry of Inquiry” on The Rush to Here by George Murray, and Ox by Christopher Patton | Abou Farman | |
| Brief Review | Last Water Song by Patrick Lane | Katie Grubisic | |
| Judge | Matthew Holmes |
2007
| Feature Review | Back to the Modern: Three Ottawa Poets: Farina, Steinmetz and Cosier | Andrew SteinmetzLaura FarinaTony CosierTriny Finlay | |
| Brief Review | Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry’s apostrophe | Bill KennedyChristopher DodaDarren Wershler-Henry | |
| Judge | Frank Davey |
2006
| Feature Review | History’s Hollow | Abou Farman | |
| Brief Review | Quasi-sonnets: Harold Rhenisch’s Free Will | Harold RhenischZachariah Wells | |
| Judge | Elliott Clarke |
2005
| Feature Review | Five Laureates on the Red Earth Road | Harold Rhenisch | |
| Brief Review | Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected by Stuart Ross | Zachariah Wells | |
| Judge | Smaro Kamboureli |
2004
| Feature Review | Flint and Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake by Charlotte Gray | Bruce Whiteman | |
| Brief Review | Happyland by Kevin Connolly | Christopher Doda | |
| Judge | David Staines |
2003
| Feature Review | Shani Mootoo and Joy Kogawa | Harold Rhenisch | |
| Brief Review | Karen Solie | Heather Spears | |
| Judge | Barbara Carey |