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 Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.
Winners
- 1998 – Carmelita McGrath, To the New World
- 1999 – John Steffler, That Night We Were Ravenous
- 2000 – Ken Babstock, Mean
- 2001 – Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
- 2002 – M. Travis Lane, Keeping Afloat
- 2003 – Anne Compton, Opening the Island
- 2004 – Brian Bartlett, Wanting the Day
- 2005 – David Helwig, The Year One
- 2006 – Anne Compton, Processional
- 2007 – Steve McOrmond, Primer on the hereafter
- 2008 – Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged
- 2009 – Brent MacLaine, Shades of Green
- 2010 – Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Lean-To
- 2011 – John Steffler, Lookout
- 2012 – Sue Goyette, outskirts
- 2013 – Lesley Choyce, I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything[1]
- 2014 – Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper[2]
- 2015 – Susan Paddon, Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths[3]
- 2016 – Sue Goyette, The Brief Reinacarnation of a Girl[4]
- 2017 – Jennifer Houle, The Back Channels[5]
- 2018 - Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
- 2019 - Allison Smith, This Kind of Thinking Does No Good
See also
Notes
- ^ "Winners of the Atlantic Poetry Prize", accessed August 8, 2011.
- ^ "Kowalski, Kimber, Domanski take home East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, September 21, 2014.
- ^ "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors". Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
- ^ "2016 East Coast Literary Award Winners Announced"
- ^ "2017 East Coast Literary Award Winners Announced"