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]
1989 Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
1990 Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
1991 Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
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]
2005 Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida[1]
2006 Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall[7]
2007 Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound
2008 Anne Simpson, Quick[8]
2009 Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales[10]
2010 Karen Solie, Pigeon[1][11]
2011 Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic
2012 Sue Goyette, outskirts
2013 Rachel Rose, Song and Spectacle
2014 Alexandra Oliver, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
2015 Sina Queyras, MxT
2016 Lorna Crozier, The Wrong Cat
2017 Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves
2018 Lesley Belleau, Indianland[18]
2019 Klara du Plessis, Ekke[19]
  • Dani Couture, Listen Before Transmit
  • Emilia Nielsen, Body Work
  • Laura Ritland, East and West
  • Deanna Young, Reunion
  • Jennifer Zilm, The Missing Field

See also

References

  1. "Pat Lowther Memorial Award". The Canadian Encyclopedia, March 13, 2012.
  2. "Allison, MacEwen make short list for poetry award". The Globe and Mail, April 27, 1988.
  3. "Brand, Brewster nominated for award". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 1991.
  4. "Poets not afraid to self-promote". Montreal Gazette, April 17, 2004.
  5. "Poets shortlist announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 17, 2004.
  6. "Shortlists unveiled for Lowther, Lampert prizes". The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2005.
  7. "Poets enter League of their own". Ottawa Citizen, June 11, 2006.
  8. "N.S., Toronto poets win League of Canadian Poets honours". CBC Books. June 23, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  9. "Shortlisted for poetry prizes". The Globe and Mail, April 2, 2008.
  10. "Winners of the the Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards Announced". Open Book Toronto, June 15, 2009.
  11. "Announcing the 2010 Award Winners of the Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Awards". Open Book Toronto, June 13, 2010.
  12. "Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards 2011 Shortlists Announced" Archived 2017-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Canada Arts Connect, April 6, 2011.
  13. "Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther shortlists revealed". Quill & Quire, April 3, 2012.
  14. "League of Canadian Poets announces 2013 shortlists". Quill & Quire, April 5, 2013.
  15. "League of Canadian Poets Announces 2014 Prize Shortlists & Spoken Word Winner!". Open Book Toronto, April 1, 2014.
  16. "Prizes announced on first day of National Poetry Month". Toronto Star, April 1, 2015.
  17. "Finalists for Canadian poetry awards announced". The Globe and Mail, April 6, 2017.
  18. "The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards". Quill & Quire, June 18, 2018.
  19. "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
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