# 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 and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Poet | Title |
| 1998 | Carmelita McGrath | To the New World |
| 1998 | Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave |
| 1999 | John Steffler | That Night We Were Ravenous |
| 1999 | Don Domanski | Parish of the Physic Moon |
| 1999 | Robin McGrath | Escaped Domestics |

### 2000s

| Year | Poet | Title |
| 2000 | Ken Babstock | Mean |
| 2000 | Herménégilde Chiasson (tr. Jo-Anne Elder, Fred Cogswell) | Climates |
| 2000 | George Elliott Clarke | Beatrice Chancy |
| 2001 | Anne Simpson | Light Falls Through You |
| 2001 | Douglas Burnet Smith | The Killed |
| 2001 | John MacKenzie | Sledgehammer and Other Poems |
| 2002 | M. Travis Lane | Keeping Afloat |
| 2002 | Herménégilde Chiasson | Conversations |
| 2002 | Patrick Warner | All Manner of Misunderstanding |
| 2003 | Anne Compton | Opening the Island |
| 2003 | Brian Bartlett | The Afterlife of Trees |
| 2003 | Robert Moore | So Rarely in Our Skins |
| 2004 | Brian Bartlett | Wanting the Day |
| 2004 | Jill MacLean | The Brevity of Red |
| 2004 | Sue Sinclair | Mortal Arguments |
| 2005 | David Helwig | The Year One |
| 2005 | Susan Goyette | Undone |
| 2005 | John Smith | Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove |
| 2006 | Anne Compton | Processional |
| 2006 | Robin McGrath | Covenant of Salt |
| 2006 | Harry Thurston | A Ship Portrait |
| 2007 | Steve McOrmond | Primer on the Hereafter |
| 2007 | Mary Dalton | Red Ledger |
| 2007 | Peter Sanger | Aiken Drum |
| 2008 | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged |
| 2008 | George Murray | The Rush to Here |
| 2008 | Anne Simpson | Quick |
| 2009 | Brent MacLaine | Shades of Green |
| 2009 | Sue Sinclair | Sector |
| 2009 | Alan R. Wilson | Sky Atlas |

### 2010s

| Year | Poet | Title |
| 2010 | Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen | Lean-To |
| 2010 | Anne Compton | Asking Questions Indoors and Out |
| 2010 | Zachariah Wells | Track & Trace |
| 2011 | John Steffler | Lookout |
| 2011 | Douglas Burnet Smith | Learning to Count |
| 2011 | Johanna Skibsrud | I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being |
| 2012 | Susan Goyette | outskirts |
| 2012 | Warren Heiti | Hydrologos |
| 2012 | Anne Simpson | Is |
| 2013 | Lesley Choyce | I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything |
| 2013 | Carole Glasser Langille | Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems |
| 2013 | George Murray | Whiteout |
| 2014 | Don Domanski | Bite Down Little Whisper |
| 2014 | Mary Dalton | Hooking |
| 2014 | Susan Goyette | Ocean |
| 2015 | Susan Paddon | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths |
| 2015 | Brian Bartlett | Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar |
| 2015 | Sylvia Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You |
| 2016 | Susan Goyette | The Brief Reinacarnation of a Girl |
| 2016 | Phillip Crymble | Not Even Laughter |
| 2016 | John Wall Barger | The Book of Festus |
| 2017 | Jennifer Houle | The Back Channels |
| 2017 | Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House |
| 2017 | Patrick Woodcock | You Can't Bury Them All |
| 2018 | Julia McCarthy | All the Names Between |
| 2018 | Allan Cooper | Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us |
| 2018 | Alison Dyer | I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game |
| 2019 | Allison Smith | This Kind of Thinking Does No Good |
| 2019 | Basma Kavanagh | Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots |
| 2019 | Annick MacAskill | No Meeting Without Body |

### 2020s

| Year | Poet | Title |
| 2020 | Lucas Crawford | Belated Bris of the Brainsick |
| 2020 | Tammy Armstrong | Year of the Metal Rabbit |
| 2020 | Anne Compton | Smallholding |
| 2021 | Afua Cooper | Black Matters |
| 2021 | David Huebert | Humanimus |
| 2021 | shalan joudry | Waking Ground |
| 2022 | Alyda Faber | Poisonous If Eaten Raw |
| 2022 | Triny Finlay | Myself a Paperclip |
| 2022 | Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue |
| 2023 | Nanci Lee | Hsin |
| 2023 | Luke Hathaway | The Affirmations |
| 2023 | Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight |
| 2024 | Fawn Parker | Soft Inheritance |
| 2024 | Joe Bishop | Indie Rock |
| 2024 | Matthew Hollett | Optic Nerve |
| 2024 | Sadie McCarney | Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking |
| 2024 | Harry Thurston | Ultramarine |