# Raymond Souster Award

The Raymond Souster Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets to a book judged as the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet in the previous year.
The award was presented for the first time in 2013, and was named in honour of Canadian poet Raymond Souster.

## Nominees and winners

| Year | Author | Title |
| 2013 | A. F. Moritz | The New Measures |
| 2013 | John Wall Barger | Hummingbird |
| 2013 | Nancy Holmes | The Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems |
| 2013 | Mark Lavorato | Wayworn Wooden Floors |
| 2013 | Emily McGiffin | Between Dusk and Night |
| 2013 | Pamela Porter | no ordinary place |
| 2014 | Anne Compton | Alongside |
| 2014 | Jen Butler | Seldom Seen Road |
| 2014 | Catherine Graham | Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects |
| 2014 | Vancy Kasper | Rebel Women |
| 2014 | John Terpstra | Brilliant Falls |
| 2014 | Russell Thornton | Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain |
| 2015 | Patrick Lane | Washita |
| 2015 | Catherine Kidd | Hyena Subpoena |
| 2015 | Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths |
| 2015 | Laisha Rosnau | Pluck |
| 2015 | Adam Sol | Complicity |
| 2015 | Rachel Zolf | Janey's Arcadia |
| 2016 | Lorna Crozier | The Wrong Cat |
| 2016 | Marilyn Dumont | The Pemmican Eaters |
| 2016 | Maureen Hynes | The Poison Colour |
| 2016 | Alice Major | Standard Candles |
| 2016 | Bruce Meyer | The Arrow of Time |
| 2016 | Armand Garnet Ruffo | The Thunderbird Poems |
| 2017 | Louise Bernice Halfe | Burning in this Midnight Dream |
| 2017 | Barry Dempster | Disturbing the Buddha |
| 2017 | Beth Everest | silent sister: the mastectomy poems |
| 2017 | Elee Kraljii Gardiner | Serpentine Loop |
| 2017 | Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late |
| 2017 | Dean Steadman | Après Satie – For Two and Four Hands |
| 2018 | Karen Enns | Cloud Physics |
| 2018 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound Is a World |
| 2018 | Puneet Dutt | The Better Monsters |
| 2018 | Benjamin Hertwig | Slow War |
| 2018 | Cornelia Hoogland | Trailer Park Elegy |
| 2018 | Canisia Lubrin | Voodoo Hypothesis |
| 2019 | Stevie Howell | I left nothing inside on purpose |
| 2019 | Adam Dickinson | Anatomic |
| 2019 | Alice Major | Welcome to the Anthropocene |
| 2019 | David Martin | Tar Swan |
| 2019 | Jim Nason | Rooster, Dog, Crow |
| 2019 | Kim Trainor | Ledi |
| 2020 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable |
| 2020 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | NDN Coping Mechanisms |
| 2020 | Sonnet L'Abbé | Sonnet's Shakespeare |
| 2020 | Cassidy McFadzean | Drolleries |
| 2020 | Shane Neilson | New Brunswick |
| 2020 | Douglas Walbourne-Gough | Crow Gulch |
| 2021 | Ian Williams | Word Problems |
| 2021 | Sadiqa de Meijer | The Outer Wards |
| 2021 | Klara du Plessis | Hell Light Flesh |
| 2021 | Jessie Jones | The Fool |
| 2021 | Michael Prior | Burning Province |
| 2021 | John Elizabeth Stintzi | Junebat |
| 2022 | Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I |
| 2022 | Síle Englert | The Lost Time Accidents |
| 2022 | Louise Bernice Halfe | awâsis – kinky and dishevelled |
| 2022 | Leah Horlick | Moldovan Hotel |
| 2022 | D. A. Lockhart | Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli |
| 2022 | Adam Sol | Broken Dawn Blessings |
| 2022 | John Wall Barger | Resurrection Fail |
| 2023 | Adebe DeRango-Adem | Vox Humana |
| 2023 | Aaron Kreuter | Shifting Baseline Syndrome |
| 2023 | Alycia Pirmohamed | Another Way to Split Water |
| 2023 | Olive Senior | Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems |
| 2023 | Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Grappling Hook |
| 2023 | Matthew James Weigel | Whitemud Walking |
| 2024 | Bradley Peters | Sonnets from a Cell |
| 2024 | Roxanna Bennett | Uncomfortability |
| 2024 | Brandi Bird | The All + Flesh |
| 2024 | D. M. Bradford | Bottom Rail on Top |
| 2024 | Wanda John-Kehewin | Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân |
| 2024 | T. Liem | Slows: Twice |