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

• 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[6]
• 2020 - Lucas Crawford, Belated Bris of the Brainsick[7]

See also

• List of poetry awards

Notes

1. "Winners of the Atlantic Poetry Prize", accessed August 8, 2011.
2. "Kowalski, Kimber, Domanski take home East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, September 21, 2014.
3. "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors". Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
4. "2016 East Coast Literary Award Winners Announced"
5. "2017 East Coast Literary Award Winners Announced"
6. Ryan Porter, "Lisa Moore wins $25,000 fiction award at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
7. Sue Carter, "Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, July 2, 2020.

External links

• Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia