Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.^[1] The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975.^[1] Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
1981	M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
1982	Rona Murray, Journey
1983	Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
1984	Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant[1]
1985	Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
1986	Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel[1]
1987	Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
1988	Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds[1]	Gay Allison, The Unravelling[2] Judith Fitzgerald, Diary of Desire[2] Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash[2] Bronwen Wallace, The Stubborn Particulars of Grace[2]
1989	Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
1990	Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
1991	Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body	Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral[3] Elizabeth Brewster, Spring Again[3] Jan Conn, South of the Tudo Bem Cafe[3]
1992	Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
1993	Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk[1]
1994	Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus
1995	Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
1996	Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light[1]
1997	Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
1998	Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
1999	Hilary Clark, More Light
2000	Esta Spalding, Lost August
2001	Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
2002	Heather Spears, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000
2003	Dionne Brand, thirsty[1]
2004	Betsy Struthers, Still[4]	Di Brandt, Now You Care[5] Mary Dalton, Merrybegot[5] Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Or[5] Jeanette Lynes, Left Fields[5] Erin Noteboom, Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska[5]
2005	Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida[1]	Ronna Bloom, Public Works[6] Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past[6] K. I. Press, Spine[6] Sue Sinclair, The Drunken Lovely Bird[6] Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing[6]
2006	Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall[7]
2007	Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound
2008	Anne Simpson, Quick[8]	Alison Calder, Wolf Tree[9] Louise Bernice Halfe, The Crooked Good[9] Nadine McInnis, Two Hemispheres[9] Olive Senior, Shell[9] Agnes Walsh, Going Around With Bachelors[9]
2009	Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales[10]	Margaret Christakos, What Stirs[10] Linda Frank, Kahlo: The World Split Open[10] Daphne Marlatt, The Given[10] Sue Sinclair, Breaker[10] Heather Spears, I can still draw[10]
2010	Karen Solie, Pigeon[1][11]	Elizabeth Bachinsky, God of Missed Connections[11] Ronna Bloom, Permiso[11] Sina Queyras, Expressway[11] Damian Rogers, Paper Radio[11] Laisha Rosnau, Lousy Explorers[11]
2011	Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic	Dionne Brand, Ossuaries[12] Di Brandt, Walking to Mojácar[12] Alice Major, Memory’s Daughter[12] Pamela Porter, Cathedral[12] Nela Rio, La luna, Tango, siempre la luna / The Moon, Tango, Always the Moon[12]
2012	Sue Goyette, outskirts	Stephanie Bolster, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth[13] Lorna Crozier, Small Mechanics[13] Rosemary Griebel, Yes[13] Amanda Jernigan, Groundwork[13] Jan Zwicky, Forge[13]
2013	Rachel Rose, Song and Spectacle	Marilyn Bowering, Soul Mouth[14] Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch[14] Lorna Crozier, The Book of Marvels[14] Maureen Scott Harris, Slow Curve Out[14] Evelyn Lau, A Grain of Rice[14]
2014	Alexandra Oliver, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway	Elizabeth Bachinsky, The Hottest Summer in Recorded History[15] Anne Compton, Alongside[15] Sadiqa de Meijer, Leaving Howe Island[15] Micheline Maylor, Whirr and Click[15] Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, Status Update[15]
2015	Sina Queyras, MxT	Joanne Arnott, Halfling Spring: an internet romance[16] Jen Currin, School[16] Judy Halebsky, Tree Line[16] Jude Neale, A Quiet Coming of Light[16] Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present[16]
2016	Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat	Rosanna Deerchild, calling down the sky Adebe DeRango-Adem, Terra Incognita Maureen Hynes, The Poison Colour Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn Sarah Tolmie, Trio
2017	Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves	Juliane Okot Bitek, 100 Days[17] Anne Carson, Float[17] Julie Cameron Gray, Lady Crawford[17] Alexandra Oliver, Let the Empire Down[17] Johanna Skibsrud, The Description of the World[17]

See also

• Canadian poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Gerald Lampert Award

References

External links

• League of Canadian Poets