1970s
- 1970: Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and bpNichol, The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid
- 1971: John Glassco, Selected Poems
- 1972: John Newlove, Lies and Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies and Other Poems
- 1973: Miriam Mandel, Lions at her Face
- 1974: Ralph Gustafson, Fire on Stone
- 1975: Milton Acorn, The Island Means Minago
- 1976: Joe Rosenblatt, Top 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 a Knife I'm Learning to Do
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