1990s
- 1990: Margaret Avison, No Time
- 1991: Don McKay, Night Field
- 1992: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
- 1993: Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World
- 1994: Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room
- 1995: Anne Szumigalski, Voice
- 1996: E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
- 1997: Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
- 1998: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
- 1999: Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
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