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 Titles
 Held at UNB Archives Location
1943 Elizabeth Brewster Unknown No UNB Fredericton
1944 Elizabeth Brewster "In the Night"; "Storm After Heat"; "The Dreamer"; "The Ghosts"; "Eyes"; "Untitled" Yes UNB Fredericton
1945 C. John St. C. Jeans "Ode to Peace"; "Though Seas Divide"; "In Homage To A Fair One"; "The Albatross (A Dream)"; "Sonnet Sequence: On Equality"; "Relax Not Vigilance" Yes UNB Fredericton
1946 Donald Gammon & A. Robert Rogers Unknown No UNB Fredericton
1947 Frederick Cogswell Unknown No UNB Fredericton
1948 Frederick Cogswell "Incident"; "Speech"; Untitled; "Art"; "The Dark World"; "Lost Dimension" Yes UNB Fredericton
1949 Vernon Acker All untitled Yes UNB Fredericton
1950 Robert Gibbs (co-winner)

Group 1: "Saint John, Charlotte Street"; "Saint John, Street Portraits"; "Ferry at Midnight"; "Resurrection"; "Contemporary Poets"; "War-Child"
Group 2: "Music Festival"; "Rain Dance"; "Poem"; "Regeneration"; "The Flusher"; "Fruit Store Window"

Yes UNB Fredericton
1950 Robert Richards (co-winner)

"Granny"; "Curds and Whey"; "The Orthodox"; "Eight O'Clock"; "Wading"

Yes UNB Fredericton
1951 George F. Whalen "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 UNB Fredericton
1952 J. Edward Cleland 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 UNB Fredericton
1953 Not awarded
No
1954 Robert E. Hawkes (co-winner) "Willi"; "Night and the Web"; "coal fossil"; "Grand Lake Mining"; "Jealousy"; "Processing" (Under pseudonym Earnest Paisley) Yes UNB Fredericton
1954 Donald Stephens (co-winner)
 "The Bee Cell"; "Progression"; "To A Farmer"; "Poem"; "Shadows Under A Bridge"; "To Spring" Yes UNB Fredericton
1955 Robert E. Hawkes "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 UNB Fredericton
1956 Not awarded
No
1957 John C. Stockdale "Tragic"; "Skulls"; "Torture"; "Last Night A Spirit"; "A Girl Passing"; "Storm By Fundy" Yes UNB Fredericton
1958 John C. Stockdale (co-winner) "Love's Dichotomy"; "Truth"; "How Now Sir Walter"; "Green Bottle"; Untitled; "Decayed Gentility" Yes UNB Fredericton
1958 Nicholas Teller (co-winner)
 "Heather"; "Alien"; "Without End, Amen"; "Platter Matter"; "Fooled"; "Prayer" Yes UNB Fredericton
1959 Jo-Ann Helen Carr "Winter"; "Church"; "Poem"; "Night - an impression"; "The Forest of Desolation"; "Questions" Yes UNB Fredericton
1960 Not awarded
No
1961 Mary Lord Bernard "Fireworks"; "A Difference"; "Meeting"; "Meeting II"; "Experience"; "Winter" Yes UNB Fredericton
1962 Mary Lord Bernard "A Woman"; "Davey"; "The Shock of Recognition: Eliof in Spring"; "Fluke"; "Non-Anticipation"; "Spring" (Under pseudonym "Clea" Yes UNB Fredericton
1963 Leroy Frank Johnson (honorable mention - Carole Lynn Jeffrey Unknown No UNB Fredericton
1964 Robert Hood Cockburn (co-winner) "Intermission"; "March Thought"; "The Shoulder-Glance"; "Reflection"; "You and I"; "First Love" Yes UNB Fredericton
1964 Bernita Helena Damery (co-winner)
 "As Every Old Man Must"; "Ombre"; "No Blade of Grass: to the Moderns"; "An April Witch"; "Cat"; "Subjectivity" (Under pseudonym "Rebatin") Yes UNB Fredericton
1965 Leroy Frank Johnson "A Nightmare"; "Jazz On a Growing Theme"; "For Cheryl"; "And the Light is Darkness"; "The Claw That Clutches" (Under pseudonym "Epicurus") Yes UNB Fredericton
1966 Bernita Damery Harris "To My Beloved"; "Lute Song"; "Wan-Wood"; "Black Lace"; "Death"; "The Carpenter" (Under pseudonym "Cecy") Yes Unknown
1967 Wanda Irene Glass All untitled under pseudonym "Marion Frost" Yes Unknown
1968 Joseph Howard Sherman (honorable mention - Michael Brian Oliver) "First and Last"; "Instant..."; "Unlike Some (For Those of the Season)"; "The Dead One"; "Introduction"; "Poem";   Yes UNB Fredericton
1969 Louis Joseph Cormier "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 UNB Fredericton
1970 Louis Joseph Cormier (honorable mentions - Peter Pacey & Bernell M. MacDonald) "Grandparents"; "Poem: To Make Love By"; "Rabbit"; "I'm Not So Strong"; "My Friend, the Radio"; "Early One Morning" Yes UNB Fredericton
1971 Peter Pacey "Cows"; "Tea Cup."; "Choir Boy"; "No Small Comfort"; "Ourselves and Richibucto"; "My Ladies Sleeping"
 Yes UNB Fredericton
1972

Alan M. Annand

"Ulysses Undefined"; "Ducks"; "Encounter"; "Your Gentle Hand"; "Sweet Apples"; "Closing"

Yes UNB Fredericton
1972 Brian Bartlett
 "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 UNB Fredericton
1973 Maria Elizabeth Machum "Haiku"; "Oogle # 38"; Untitled; Untitled; "Lullabye"; "To my professional-academician lover:"  Yes Unknown
1974 Not awarded
No
1975 Glen W. Murray "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 UNB Fredericton
1976 Not awarded
No
1977 Not awarded
No
1978 Sally D. Harasym
No Unknown
1979 Andrew H. Bartlett
No Unknown
1980 Deborah Brent
No Unknown
1981 John Edward van Buren

Musings: 
"Animals Come Out of the Forest"; "All Things Were Delicious"; "A Brilliant Silver Machine Gun"; "It Was Really - Nothing"; "Small Pink Fish"; "Falling From the Rooftop"

Yes Unknown
1982 Wanda Ruth McNally "Encounter"; "Day One at the University"; "The Ace on Saunders Street"; "Peniel"; "Vincent"; "Madame Matisse"; "Rose"  Yes UNB Fredericton
1983 Wanda Ruth McNally "India"; "Casterling Stone Circle"; "Edinburgh"; "Four Haiku"; "Christmas Sonnet"; "Within Reach" (Under pseudonym "Ruth Avery") Yes UNB Fredericton
1984 Gregory Keith Betts Untitled; "Miss Narcissus"; "For Bessie Smith"; "6:30 Jazz"; "After the Reading"; Untitled Yes Unknown
1985 Steven Mark Henderson

"The Textile Auction";
Metamorphoses: "The Wishful Thinker"; "Narcissus and Ego"; "The Misunderstanding of Thisbe and Pyramus"; "Orpheus, on Drowning, is Afraid to Swim Again";
"The Picture" 

Yes UNB Fredericton
1986 Steven Mark Henderson "The Mountain"; "The Lunatic"; "Hidden Blades"; "A sense of humour"; "Mowing"; "The Tidal Pool" Yes UNB Fredericton
1987 Karen Jean Braun "Talking Over Literature"; "On English Bay"; "In The Common Room"; "Song But No Dance"
 Yes UNB Fredericton
1988 Wayne Egers

"Some Small Thing"; "Around White"; "Blue"; "The Squirrel"; "Risking"; "Whispy Wind"

Yes UNB Fredericton
1989 Pamela Jeanne Fulton "May Your Life Be Like the January Sun"; "Lament"; "Odell Park"; "Catching Snowflakes"; "From Cornets for the Eleventh Hour"; "Sometime";  Yes Unknown
1990 Diane A. Reid "Quitch Grass"; "Daughter"; "Photo On Bedside Table"; "Rebirth"; "Close of the Season at Jasper Park Lodge"; "Trail to Annapurna" Yes UNB Fredericton
1991 Pamela Jeanne Fulton "Molly"; "and many, many more or the same"; "On the Night Wind"; "The Blueberry Fields of May"; "100% Retention"; "Wakening" Yes Unknown
1992 Diane A. Reid "Ave Soarus"; "Summer Preserves"; "Photo on Bedside Table"; "This Page"; "Flicker"; "Breaking Out" Yes UNB Fredericton
1993 Anne Ryan "Senryu"; "Tanka"; "Plane Over Car"; "Toy Found in Garden"; "Three Poems for the Vietnam Memorial"; "New Bridge (haibun)"; "Volkswagon Convertible"
 Yes UNB Saint John
1994 Dorothy McFarlane "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 UNB Fredericton
1995 Heather Delong "A Wedding Photo Cannoy Capture"; "steps"; "365 Brunswick"; untitled; "Without Waking"  Yes Unknown
1996 Jennifer Savage "Untitled"; "A Man Whose Lover Died"; "Upon Looking at the AIDS Memorial Quilt"; "H."; "Untitled" Yes UNB Fredericton
1997 David F. King "Expensive Care"; "Sarajevo Airport"; "Road Kill"; "Spring"; "The Raj of Bahrain"; "A Caper's Haiku" Yes Unknown
1998 James MacGregor
No Unknown
1999 Erin Bidlake
No Unknown
2000 Ian LeTourneau "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 Unknown
2001 Vanessa Moeller
No UNB Fredericton
2002 Nicholas Charles Good
No Unknown
2003 James Earl Johnson
No Unknown
2004 Jonathan A. McFarlane
No Unknown
2005 Stephanie Joan Yorke
No UNB Fredericton
2006 Stephanie Joan Yorke
No UNB Fredericton
2007 Susan Angela Brodie
No UNB Fredericton
2008 Ryan Charles Marshall
No Unknown
2009 Sarah Watson
No Unknown
2010 Colleen Goguen
No UNB Fredericton
2011 Michael Jessome
No UNB Fredericton
2012 Linnea Eleanor Fetter
No UNB Fredericton
2013 Stephanie Allison Zapata
No UNB Fredericton

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