J. M. Abraham Poetry Award

The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Poet	Title	Ref.
1998	Carmelita McGrath	To the New World	[1]
	Carole Glasser Langille	In Cannon Cave	[2]
1999	John Steffler	That Night We Were Ravenous	[3]
	Don Domanski	Parish of the Physic Moon	[4]
	Robin McGrath	Escaped Domestics

2000s

Year	Poet	Title	Ref.
2000	Ken Babstock	Mean	[5]
	Herménégilde Chiasson (tr. Jo-Anne Elder, Fred Cogswell)	Climates	[6]
	George Elliott Clarke	Beatrice Chancy
2001	Anne Simpson	Light Falls Through You	[7]
	Douglas Burnet Smith	The Killed	[8]
	John MacKenzie	Sledgehammer and Other Poems
2002	M. Travis Lane	Keeping Afloat	[9]
	Herménégilde Chiasson	Conversations	[10]
	Patrick Warner	All Manner of Misunderstanding
2003	Anne Compton	Opening the Island	[11]
	Brian Bartlett	The Afterlife of Trees	[12]
	Robert Moore	So Rarely in Our Skins
2004	Brian Bartlett	Wanting the Day	[13]
	Jill MacLean	The Brevity of Red	[14]
	Sue Sinclair	Mortal Arguments
2005	David Helwig	The Year One	[15]
	Susan Goyette	Undone	[16]
	John Smith	Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove
2006	Anne Compton	Processional	[17]
	Robin McGrath	Covenant of Salt	[18]
	Harry Thurston	A Ship Portrait
2007	Steve McOrmond	Primer on the Hereafter
	Mary Dalton	Red Ledger
	Peter Sanger	Aiken Drum
2008	Don Domanski	All Our Wonder Unavenged	[19]
	George Murray	The Rush to Here	[20]
	Anne Simpson	Quick
2009	Brent MacLaine	Shades of Green
	Sue Sinclair	Sector
	Alan R. Wilson	Sky Atlas

2010s

Year	Poet	Title	Ref.
2010	Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen	Lean-To	[21]
	Anne Compton	Asking Questions Indoors and Out	[22]
	Zachariah Wells	Track & Trace
2011	John Steffler	Lookout
	Douglas Burnet Smith	Learning to Count	[23]
	Johanna Skibsrud	I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being
2012	Susan Goyette	outskirts	[24]
	Warren Heiti	Hydrologos	[25]
	Anne Simpson	Is
2013	Lesley Choyce	I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything	[26]
	Carole Glasser Langille	Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems	[27]
	George Murray	Whiteout
2014	Don Domanski	Bite Down Little Whisper	[28]
	Mary Dalton	Hooking	[29]
	Susan Goyette	Ocean
2015	Susan Paddon	Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths	[30]
	Brian Bartlett	Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar	[31]
	Sylvia Hamilton	And I Alone Escaped to Tell You
2016	Susan Goyette	The Brief Reinacarnation of a Girl	[32]
	Phillip Crymble	Not Even Laughter	[33]
	John Wall Barger	The Book of Festus
2017	Jennifer Houle	The Back Channels	[34]
	Margo Wheaton	The Unlit Path Behind the House	[35]
	Patrick Woodcock	You Can't Bury Them All
2018	Julia McCarthy	All the Names Between	[36]
	Allan Cooper	Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us	[37]
	Alison Dyer	I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game
2019	Allison Smith	This Kind of Thinking Does No Good	[38]
	Basma Kavanagh	Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots	[39]
	Annick MacAskill	No Meeting Without Body

2020s

Year	Poet	Title	Ref.
2020	Lucas Crawford	Belated Bris of the Brainsick	[40]
	Tammy Armstrong	Year of the Metal Rabbit	[41]
	Anne Compton	Smallholding
2021	Afua Cooper	Black Matters	[42]
	David Huebert	Humanimus
	shalan joudry	Waking Ground
2022	Alyda Faber	Poisonous If Eaten Raw	[43]
	Triny Finlay	Myself a Paperclip	[44]
	Rebecca Salazar	Sulphurtongue
2023	Nanci Lee	Hsin	[45]
	Luke Hathaway	The Affirmations	[46]
	Annick MacAskill	Shadow Blight
2024	Fawn Parker	Soft Inheritance	[47]
	Joe Bishop	Indie Rock	[48]
	Matthew Hollett	Optic Nerve
	Sadie McCarney	Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking
	Harry Thurston	Ultramarine

See also

• List of poetry awards