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.
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| 1998 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | To the New World | [1] | |||
| Carole Glasser Langille | In Cannon Cave | [2] | |||||
| 1999 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | That Night We Were Ravenous | [3] | |||
| Don Domanski | Parish of the Physic Moon | [4] | |||||
| Robin McGrath | Escaped Domestics |
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| 2000 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Mean | [5] | |||
| Herménégilde Chiasson (tr. Jo-Anne Elder, Fred Cogswell) | Climates | [6] | |||||
| George Elliott Clarke | Beatrice Chancy | ||||||
| 2001 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Light Falls Through You | [7] | |||
| Douglas Burnet Smith | The Killed | [8] | |||||
| John MacKenzie | Sledgehammer and Other Poems | ||||||
| 2002 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Keeping Afloat | [9] | |||
| Herménégilde Chiasson | Conversations | [10] | |||||
| Patrick Warner | All Manner of Misunderstanding | ||||||
| 2003 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Opening the Island | [11] | |||
| Brian Bartlett | The Afterlife of Trees | [12] | |||||
| Robert Moore | So Rarely in Our Skins | ||||||
| 2004 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Wanting the Day | [13] | |||
| Jill MacLean | The Brevity of Red | [14] | |||||
| Sue Sinclair | Mortal Arguments | ||||||
| 2005 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | [15] | ||||
| Susan Goyette | Undone | [16] | |||||
| John Smith | Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove | ||||||
| 2006 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Processional | [17] | |||
| Robin McGrath | Covenant of Salt | [18] | |||||
| Harry Thurston | A Ship Portrait | ||||||
| 2007 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Primer on the Hereafter | ||||
| Mary Dalton | Red Ledger | ||||||
| Peter Sanger | Aiken Drum | ||||||
| 2008 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | All Our Wonder Unavenged | [19] | |||
| George Murray | The Rush to Here | [20] | |||||
| Anne Simpson | Quick | ||||||
| 2009 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Shades of Green | ||||
| Sue Sinclair | Sector | ||||||
| Alan R. Wilson | Sky Atlas |
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| 2010 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Lean-To | [21] | |||
| Anne Compton | Asking Questions Indoors and Out | [22] | |||||
| Zachariah Wells | Track & Trace | ||||||
| 2011 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Lookout | ||||
| Douglas Burnet Smith | Learning to Count | [23] | |||||
| Johanna Skibsrud | I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being | ||||||
| 2012 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | outskirts | [24] | |||
| Warren Heiti | Hydrologos | [25] | |||||
| Anne Simpson | Is | ||||||
| 2013 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything | [26] | |||
| Carole Glasser Langille | Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems | [27] | |||||
| George Murray | Whiteout | ||||||
| 2014 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Bite Down Little Whisper | [28] | |||
| Mary Dalton | Hooking | [29] | |||||
| Susan Goyette | Ocean | ||||||
| 2015 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths | [30] | |||
| Brian Bartlett | Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar | [31] | |||||
| Sylvia Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You | ||||||
| 2016 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | [32] | ||||
| Phillip Crymble | Not Even Laughter | [33] | |||||
| John Wall Barger | The Book of Festus | ||||||
| 2017 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | [34] | ||||
| Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House | [35] | |||||
| Patrick Woodcock | You Can't Bury Them All | ||||||
| 2018 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | All the Names Between | [36] | |||
| Allan Cooper | Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us | [37] | |||||
| Alison Dyer | I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game | ||||||
| 2019 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | This Kind of Thinking Does No Good | [38] | |||
| Basma Kavanagh | Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots | [39] | |||||
| Annick MacAskill | No Meeting Without Body |
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| 2020 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Belated Bris of the Brainsick | [40] | |||
| Tammy Armstrong | Year of the Metal Rabbit | [41] | |||||
| Anne Compton | Smallholding | ||||||
| 2021 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Black Matters | [42] | |||
| David Huebert | Humanimus | ||||||
| shalan joudry | Waking Ground | ||||||
| 2022 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Poisonous If Eaten Raw | [43] | |||
| Triny Finlay | Myself a Paperclip | [44] | |||||
| Rebecca Salazar | Sulphurtongue | ||||||
| 2023 | style=background:#FAEB86 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Hsin | [45] | |||
| Luke Hathaway | The Affirmations | [46] | |||||
| Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | ||||||
| 2024 | style=background:#FAEB86 | Fawn Parker | style=background:#FAEB86 | Soft Inheritance | [47] | ||
| Joe Bishop | Indie Rock | [48] | |||||
| Matthew Hollett | Optic Nerve | ||||||
| Sadie McCarney | Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking | ||||||
| Harry Thurston | Ultramarine |