1960s
- 1960: Margaret Avison, Winter Sun
- 1961: Robert Finch, Acis in Oxford
- 1962: James Reaney, Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Killdeer and Other Plays
- 1963: (none)
- 1964: Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times
- 1965: Al Purdy, The Cariboo Horses
- 1966: Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game
- 1967: Alden Nowlan, Bread, Wine and Salt and Eli Mandel, An Idiot Joy
- 1968: Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956–68
- 1969: George Bowering, Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos and Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow-Maker
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