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" |
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 | |
| 1976 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1977 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1978 | Sally D. Harasym | No | ||
| 1979 | Andrew H. Bartlett | No | ||
| 1980 | Deborah Brent | No | ||
| 1981 | John Edward van Buren |
Musings: |
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"; |
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 | |
| 1988 | Wayne Egers |
"Some Small Thing"; "Around White"; "Blue"; "The Squirrel"; "Risking"; "Whispy Wind" |
Yes | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1995 | Heather Delong | "A Wedding Photo Cannoy Capture"; "steps"; "365 Brunswick"; untitled; "Without Waking" | Yes | |
| 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 | |
| 1998 | James MacGregor | No | ||
| 1999 | Erin Bidlake | No | ||
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Vanessa Moeller | No | ||
| 2002 | Nicholas Charles Good | No | ||
| 2003 | James Earl Johnson | No | ||
| 2004 | Jonathan A. McFarlane | No | ||
| 2005 | Stephanie Joan Yorke | No | ||
| 2006 | Stephanie Joan Yorke | No | ||
| 2007 | Susan Angela Brodie | No | ||
| 2008 | Ryan Charles Marshall | No | ||
| 2009 | Sarah Watson | No | ||
| 2010 | Colleen Goguen | No | ||
| 2011 | Michael Jessome | No | ||
| 2012 | Linnea Eleanor Fetter | No | ||
| 2013 | Stephanie Allison Zapata | No |
Source(s):
- UA Case 143.
- "The Bassman Cometh" by Alan Annand
- New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
- LinkedIn: Glenn Murray
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