Gerald Lampert Award

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert.^[1] Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
1981	Elizabeth Allan, The Shored Up House
1982	Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
1983	Diana Hartog, Matinee Light
1984	Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers Jean McKay, Gone to Grass
1985	Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
1986	Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
1987	Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
1988	Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother	Beverly Daurio, If Summer Had a Knife[2] Janet Simpson-Cooke, Future Rivers[2]
1989	Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
1990	Steven Heighton, Stalin's Carnival
1991	Diana Brebner, Radiant Life Forms	Lesley-Anne Bourne, The Story of Pears[3] Michael Redhill, Impromptu Feats of Balance[3] Ronn Silverstein, Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude[3]
1992	Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood
1993	Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons
1994	Barbara Klar, The Night You Called Me a Shadow Ilya Tourtidis, Mad Magellan's Tale
1995	Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
1996	Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
1997	Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl
1998	Mark Sinnett, The Landing
1999	Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
2000	Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
2001	Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
2002	Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
2003	Kathy Mac, Nail Hunters Plan for Strength and Growth	Nancy Jo Cullen, Science Fiction Saint Michael deBeyer, Rural Night Catalogue Sharron Proulx-Turner, what the auntys say Christine Wiesenthal, Instruments of Surrender
2004	Adam Getty, Reconciliation[4]	Chris Banks, Bonfires[5] Jill Hartman, A Painted Elephant[5] Alison Pick, Question & Answer[5] Ali Riley, Wayward[5]
2005	Ray Hsu, Anthropy	Geoffrey Cook, Postscript[6] Susan Downe, Little Horse[6] A. J. Levin, Monk's Fruit[6] Steve McOrmond, Lean Days[6]
2006	Suzanne Buffam, Past Imperfect[7]
2007	Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
2008	Alex Boyd, Making Bones Walk[8]	Joshua Auerbach, Radius of Light[9] Alison Calder, Wolf Tree[9] Dymphny Dronyk, Contrary Infatuations[9] Kim Goldberg, Ride Backwards on Dragon[9] Erin Knight, The Sweet Fuels[9]
2009	Katia Grubisic, what if red ran out[10]	Adam Chiles, Evening Land[10] Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds[10] Kate Eichhorn, Fond[10] Sachiko Murakami, The Invisibility Exhibit[10] Johanna Skibsrud, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys[10]
2010	James Langer, Gun Dogs[11]	Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream[11] Marcus McCann, Soft Where[11] Soraya Peerbaye, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names[11] Marguerite Pigeon, Inventory[11] Robert Earl Stewart, Something Burned Along the Southern Border[11]
2011	Anna Swanson, The Nights Also	Susan Briscoe, The Crow’s Vow[12] Karen Enns, That Other Beauty[12] Jeff Latosik, Tiny, Frantic, Stronger[12] Nikki Reimer, [sic][12] Clea Roberts, Here Is Where We Disembark[12]
2012	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, Sweet Devilry	Kirsty Elliot, True[13] Rosemary Griebel, Yes[13] Suzanne Robertson, Paramita[13] Lisa Shatzky, Do Not Call Me By My Name[13] Leslie Vryenhoek, Gulf[13]
2013	Gillian Savigny, Notebook M	James Arthur, Charms Against Lightning[14] Nora Gould, I see my love more clearly from a distance[14] Mathew Henderson, The Lease[14] Nyla Matuk, Sumptuary Laws[14] Andrew McEwan, Repeater[14]
2014	Murray Reiss, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild	Jordan Abel, the place of scraps[15] Laurie D. Graham, Rove[15] Julie Joosten, Light Light[15] Emilia Nielsen, Surge Narrows[15] Juleta Severson-Baker, Incarnate[15]
2015	Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On	Sylvia D. Hamilton, And I Alone Escaped to Tell You[16] Stevie Howell, Sharps[16] Kerry Lee Powell, Inheritance[16] Suzannah Showler, Failure to Thrive[16] Anne-Marie Turza, The Quiet[16]
2016	Ben Ladouceur, Otter	Melissa Bull, Rue Chad Campbell, Laws & Locks Raoul Fernandes, Transmitter and Receiver Cassidy McFadzean, Hacker Packer Derek Webster, Mockingbird
2017	Ingrid Ruthig, This Being[17]	Christopher Gudgeon, Assdeep in Wonder[18] Jennifer Houle, The Back Channels[18] John Nyman, Players[18] Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House[18] Banoo Zan, Songs of Exile[18]

References

External links

• League of Canadian Poets