Price of the General governor: poetry or theater of English language

Here a list of the prizes winner of the Price of the General governor in the poetry category or theater of English language. This price was decreed for the first time in 1959, at the same time as the other prices of English language, until in 1981, when the poetry category or theater of English language was divided into two.

1937 - E.J. Pratt, The Fable off the Goats
1938 - Kenneth Leslie, By Stubborn Stars
1939 - Arthur S. Bourinot Under the Sun
1940 - E.J. Pratt, Brébeuf and His Brethren
1941 - Anne Marriott, Calling Adventurers
1942 - Earle Birney, David and Other Poems
1943 - A.J.M. Smith, News off the Phoenix
1944 - Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night
1945 - Earle Birney, Now is Time
1946 - Robert Finch, Poems
1947 - Dorothy Livesay, Poems for People
1948 - A.M. Klein, The Rocking Flesh and Other Poems
1949 - James Reaney, The Red Heart
1950 - James Wreford Watson, Off Time and to coil
1951 - Charles Bruce, The Mulgrave Road
1952 - E.J. Pratt, Towards the Last Spike
1953 - Douglas LePan, The Net and the Sword
1954 - P.K. Page, The Metal and the Flower
1955 - Wilfred Watson, Friday' S Child
1956 - Robert A.D. Ford, has Window one the North
1957 - Jay Macpherson, The Boatman
1958 - James Reaney, has Follows off Nettles
1959 - Irving Layton, Red Carpet for the Sun
1960 - Margaret Avison, Winter Sun
1961 - Robert Finch , Acis in Oxford
1962 - James Reaney, Twelve Letters to has Small Town and The Killdeer and Other Plays
1963 - (no price)
1964 - Raymond Souster, The Color off the Times
1965 - Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses
1966 - Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game
1967 - Alden Nowlan, Bread, Wine and Salt and Eli Mandel, Idiotic An Joy
1968 - Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-68
1969 - George Bowering, Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs off Kosmos and Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow-Maker
1970 - Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works off Billy the Kid and BpNichol, together of work
1971 - John Glassco, Selected Poems
1972 - John Newlove, Dregs and Refusals Civil Lee, Elegies and Other Poems
1973 - Miriam Mandel, Lions At her Face
1974 - Ralph Gustafson, Fire one Stone
1975 - Milton Acorn, The Island Means Minago
1976 - Joe Rosenblatt, Signal Soil
1977 - D.G. Jones, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth
1978 - Patrick Lane, Poems New and Selected
1979 - Michael Ondaatje, There' S.A. Trick with has Knife I' m Learning to Do
1980 - Stephen Scobie, McAlmon' S Chinese Operated

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