Bliss Carman Memorial Prize
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The Bliss Carman Memorial Prize is awarded to the undergraduate student who submits the best group of six poems of not more than forty lines each. No student may win the prize more than twice. The prize was first awarded in 1943.
| Year | Name | Student of |
Titles |
Held at UNB Archives |
| 1943 | Elizabeth Brewster | UNB Fredericton |
Unknown | No |
| 1944 | Elizabeth Brewster | UNB Fredericton |
"In the Night"; "Storm After Heat"; "The Dreamer"; "The Ghosts"; "Eyes"; "Untitled" | Yes |
| 1945 | C. John St. C. Jeans | UNB Fredericton |
"Ode to Peace"; "Though Seas Divide"; "In Homage To A Fair One"; "The Albatross (A Dream)"; "Sonnet Sequence: On Equality"; "Relax Not Vigilance" | Yes |
| 1946 | Donald Gammon & A. Robert Rogers | UNB Fredericton |
Unknown | No |
| 1947 | Frederick Cogswell | UNB Fredericton |
Unknown | No |
| 1948 | Frederick Cogswell | UNB Fredericton |
"Incident"; "Speech"; Untitled; "Art"; "The Dark World"; "Lost Dimension" | Yes |
| 1949 | Vernon Acker | UNB Fredericton |
All untitled | Yes |
| 1950 | Robert Gibbs (co-winner) | UNB Fredericton |
Group 1: "Saint John, Charlotte Street"; "Saint John, Street Portraits"; "Ferry at Midnight"; "Resurrection"; "Contemporary Poets"; "War-Child" |
Yes |
| 1950 | Robert Richards (co-winner) | UNB Fredericton |
"Granny"; "Curds and Whey"; "The Orthodox"; "Eight O'Clock"; "Wading" |
Yes |
| 1951 | George F. Whalen | UNB Fredericton |
"The pearl"; "Roadhouse waitress"; "Tone poem"; "Phonograph needle"; "Semi-cycle: The Seasons ('The last dandilion of summer'; 'A sumac poem')"; "Survival of the fittest" | Yes |
| 1952 | J. Edward Cleland | UNB Fredericton |
Six Short Poems (or Experiments in Verse) "The Bliss Carman House"; "La Fille de la Nuit"; "In Autumn"; The Present Degeneration"; "The Runner"; "Introspect and Retrospect" |
Yes |
| 1953 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1954 | Robert E. Hawkes (co-winner) | UNB Fredericton |
"Willi"; "Night and the Web"; "coal fossil"; "Grand Lake Mining"; "Jealousy"; "Processing" (Under pseudonym Earnest Paisley) | Yes |
| 1954 | Donald Stephens (co-winner) |
UNB Fredericton |
"The Bee Cell"; "Progression"; "To A Farmer"; "Poem"; "Shadows Under A Bridge"; "To Spring" | Yes |
| 1955 | Robert E. Hawkes | UNB Fredericton |
"Through A Glass Darkly"; "Aeneas and Dido"; "Merci Beaucoup's Lament"; "Road-Map Journeys"; "Wet Cotton Cross in Shadowland"; "'Our golden dream! What a stinking mess we've made of it.': Rubashov from Darkness at Noon" | Yes |
| 1956 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1957 | John C. Stockdale | UNB Fredericton |
"Tragic"; "Skulls"; "Torture"; "Last Night A Spirit"; "A Girl Passing"; "Storm By Fundy" | Yes |
| 1958 | John C. Stockdale (co-winner) | UNB Fredericton |
"Love's Dichotomy"; "Truth"; "How Now Sir Walter"; "Green Bottle"; Untitled; "Decayed Gentility" | Yes |
| 1958 | Nicholas Teller (co-winner) |
UNB Fredericton |
"Heather"; "Alien"; "Without End, Amen"; "Platter Matter"; "Fooled"; "Prayer" | Yes |
| 1959 | Jo-Ann Helen Carr | UNB Fredericton |
"Winter"; "Church"; "Poem"; "Night - an impression"; "The Forest of Desolation"; "Questions" | Yes |
| 1960 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1961 | Mary Lord Bernard | UNB Fredericton |
"Fireworks"; "A Difference"; "Meeting"; "Meeting II"; "Experience"; "Winter" | Yes |
| 1962 | Mary Lord Bernard | UNB Fredericton |
"A Woman"; "Davey"; "The Shock of Recognition: Eliof in Spring"; "Fluke"; "Non-Anticipation"; "Spring" (Under pseudonym "Clea" | Yes |
| 1963 | Leroy Frank Johnson (honorable mention - Carole Lynn Jeffrey | UNB Fredericton |
Unknown | No |
| 1964 | Robert Hood Cockburn (co-winner) | UNB Fredericton |
"Intermission"; "March Thought"; "The Shoulder-Glance"; "Reflection"; "You and I"; "First Love" | Yes |
| 1964 | Bernita Helena Damery (co-winner) |
UNB Fredericton |
"As Every Old Man Must"; "Ombre"; "No Blade of Grass: to the Moderns"; "An April Witch"; "Cat"; "Subjectivity" (Under pseudonym "Rebatin") | Yes |
| 1965 | Leroy Frank Johnson | UNB Fredericton |
"A Nightmare"; "Jazz On a Growing Theme"; "For Cheryl"; "And the Light is Darkness"; "The Claw That Clutches" (Under pseudonym "Epicurus") | Yes |
| 1966 | Bernita Damery Harris | Unknown | "To My Beloved"; "Lute Song"; "Wan-Wood"; "Black Lace"; "Death"; "The Carpenter" (Under pseudonym "Cecy") | Yes |
| 1967 | Wanda Irene Glass | Unknown | All untitled under pseudonym "Marion Frost" | Yes |
| 1968 | Joseph Howard Sherman (honorable mention - Michael Brian Oliver) | UNB Fredericton |
"First and Last"; "Instant..."; "Unlike Some (For Those of the Season)"; "The Dead One"; "Introduction"; "Poem"; | Yes |
| 1969 | Louis Joseph Cormier | UNB Fredericton |
"Time Out For Death"; "Discordia: L'Histoire d'un Peuple"; "Kings and Queens"; "The Silent Cowboys of the East"; "Night"; "The Fastest Runner on Moore Street"; | Yes |
| 1970 | Louis Joseph Cormier (honorable mentions - Peter Pacey & Bernell M. MacDonald) | UNB Fredericton |
"Grandparents"; "Poem: To Make Love By"; "Rabbit"; "I'm Not So Strong"; "My Friend, the Radio"; "Early One Morning" | Yes |
| 1971 | Peter Pacey | UNB Fredericton |
"Cows"; "Tea Cup."; "Choir Boy"; "No Small Comfort"; "Ourselves and Richibucto"; "My Ladies Sleeping" |
Yes |
| 1972 |
Alan M. Annand |
UNB Fredericton |
"Ulysses Undefined"; "Ducks"; "Encounter"; "Your Gentle Hand"; "Sweet Apples"; "Closing" |
Yes |
| 1972 | Brian Bartlett |
UNB Fredericton |
"Ararat: To Make Up For the Raven and the Dove"; "Falcon on a Dark Day"; "A Poem Aimed at a Balloon in the Middle of a Party"; "Lessons of the Grotesque"; "Like of the Fool"; "Last Poem" | Yes |
| 1973 | Maria Elizabeth Machum | Unknown | "Haiku"; "Oogle # 38"; Untitled; Untitled; "Lullabye"; "To my professional-academician lover:" | Yes |
| 1974 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1975 | Glen W. Murray | UNB Fredericton |
"Ma Bell's Revenge"; "Like Ships That Pass in the Etcetera"; "Alcoholic Living Room: Popular Relaxation Myth Explored"; "Lust-Desserts"; "The Good Citizin"; "Dream Raiders" | Yes |
| 1976 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1977 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1978 | Sally D. Harasym | Unknown | No | |
| 1979 | Andrew H. Bartlett | Unknown | No | |
| 1980 | Deborah Brent | Unknown | No | |
| 1981 | John Edward van Buren | Unknown |
Musings: |
Yes |
| 1982 | Wanda Ruth McNally | UNB Fredericton |
"Encounter"; "Day One at the University"; "The Ace on Saunders Street"; "Peniel"; "Vincent"; "Madame Matisse"; "Rose" | Yes |
| 1983 | Wanda Ruth McNally | UNB Fredericton |
"India"; "Casterling Stone Circle"; "Edinburgh"; "Four Haiku"; "Christmas Sonnet"; "Within Reach" (Under pseudonym "Ruth Avery") | Yes |
| 1984 | Gregory Keith Betts | Unknown | Untitled; "Miss Narcissus"; "For Bessie Smith"; "6:30 Jazz"; "After the Reading"; Untitled | Yes |
| 1985 | Steven Mark Henderson | UNB Fredericton |
"The Textile Auction"; |
Yes |
| 1986 | Steven Mark Henderson | UNB Fredericton |
"The Mountain"; "The Lunatic"; "Hidden Blades"; "A sense of humour"; "Mowing"; "The Tidal Pool" | Yes |
| 1987 | Karen Jean Braun | UNB Fredericton |
"Talking Over Literature"; "On English Bay"; "In The Common Room"; "Song But No Dance" |
Yes |
| 1988 | Wayne Egers | UNB Fredericton |
"Some Small Thing"; "Around White"; "Blue"; "The Squirrel"; "Risking"; "Whispy Wind" |
Yes |
| 1989 | Pamela Jeanne Fulton | Unknown | "May Your Life Be Like the January Sun"; "Lament"; "Odell Park"; "Catching Snowflakes"; "From Cornets for the Eleventh Hour"; "Sometime"; | Yes |
| 1990 | Diane A. Reid | UNB Fredericton |
"Quitch Grass"; "Daughter"; "Photo On Bedside Table"; "Rebirth"; "Close of the Season at Jasper Park Lodge"; "Trail to Annapurna" | Yes |
| 1991 | Pamela Jeanne Fulton | Unknown | "Molly"; "and many, many more or the same"; "On the Night Wind"; "The Blueberry Fields of May"; "100% Retention"; "Wakening" | Yes |
| 1992 | Diane A. Reid | UNB Fredericton |
"Ave Soarus"; "Summer Preserves"; "Photo on Bedside Table"; "This Page"; "Flicker"; "Breaking Out" | Yes |
| 1993 | Anne Ryan | UNB Saint John | "Senryu"; "Tanka"; "Plane Over Car"; "Toy Found in Garden"; "Three Poems for the Vietnam Memorial"; "New Bridge (haibun)"; "Volkswagon Convertible" |
Yes |
| 1994 | Dorothy McFarlane | UNB Fredericton |
"Rocking Chair Treatment"; "Writing (with apoligies to Ogden Nosh)"; "Is it here yet?"; "Moving"; "Outside the Room Where Life and Death Meet"; "The Maples" | Yes |
| 1995 | Heather Delong | Unknown | "A Wedding Photo Cannot Capture"; "steps"; "365 Brunswick"; untitled; "Without Waking" | Yes |
| 1996 | Jennifer Savage | UNB Fredericton |
"Untitled"; "A Man Whose Lover Died"; "Upon Looking at the AIDS Memorial Quilt"; "H."; "Untitled" | Yes |
| 1997 | David F. King | Unknown | "Expensive Care"; "Sarajevo Airport"; "Road Kill"; "Spring"; "The Raj of Bahrain"; "A Caper's Haiku" | Yes |
| 1998 | James MacGregor | Unknown | No | |
| 1999 | Erin Bidlake | Unknown | No | |
| 2000 | Ian LeTourneau | Unknown | "Wild Flowers (1): Physostegia Virginiana"; "Wild Flowers (2): Lilium Tigrinum"; "Wild Flowers (3): Euphobia Marginata"; "The Sun Also Rises"; "A Wintry Landscape"; "Poetic Justice" | Yes |
| 2001 | Vanessa Moeller | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2002 | Nicholas Charles Good | Unknown | No | |
| 2003 | James Earl Johnson | Unknown | No | |
| 2004 | Jonathan A. McFarlane | Unknown | No | |
| 2005 | Stephanie Joan Yorke | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2006 | Stephanie Joan Yorke | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2007 | Susan Angela Brodie | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2008 | Ryan Charles Marshall | Unknown | No | |
| 2009 | Sarah Watson | Unknown | No | |
| 2010 | Colleen Goguen | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2011 | Michael Jessome | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2012 | Linnea Eleanor Fetter | UNB Fredericton |
No | |
| 2013 | Stephanie Allison Zapata | UNB Fredericton |
No |
Source(s):
- UA Case 143.
- "The Bassman Cometh" by Alan Annand
- New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
- LinkedIn: Glenn Murray, Stephanie Zapata
- ALAR People | Fredericton
- WriteFire | About Me (Wayne Egers)
- Women's Studies Program (Karen Jean Braun)
- Facebook | Vanessa Moeller
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts Deans List 2004-2005, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
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