Pat_Lowther_Award

Pat Lowther Award

Canadian poetry award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary 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]

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Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
1981	M. Travis Lane	Divinations and Short Poems 1973–1978	Winner
1982	Rona Murray	Journey	Winner	^[2]
1983	Rhea Tregebov	Remembering History	Winner	^[3]
1984	Bronwen Wallace	Signs of the Former Tenant	Winner	^[1]
1985	Paulette Jiles	Celestial Navigation	Winner	^[4]
1986	Erín Moure	Domestic Fuel	Winner	^[1]
1987	Heather Spears	How to Read Faces	Winner	^[5]
	Jan Conn	The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves	Shortlist	^[5]
	Anne Michaels	The Weight of Oranges	Shortlist	^[5]
1988	Gwendolyn MacEwen	Afterworlds	Winner	^[1]
	Gay Allison	The Unravelling	Shortlist	^[6]
	Judith Fitzgerald	Diary of Desire
	Sharon Thesen	The Beginning of the Long Dash
	Bronwen Wallace	The Stubborn Particulars of Grace
1989	Heather Spears	The Word for Sand	Winner	^[7]
	Joan Finnigan	The Watershed Collection	Shortlist	^[8]
	Erín Moure	Furious	Shortlist	^[8]

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
1990	Patricia Young	The Mad and Beautiful Mothers	Winner	^[9]
	Roo Borson	Intent, Or the Weight of the World	Shortlist	^[10]
	Barbara Carey	The Year in Pictures
	Cathy Ford	Saffron, Rose & Flame
	Erín Moure	WSW (West South West)
	Jan Zwicky	The New Room
1991	Karen Connelly	The Small Words in My Body	Winner	^[11]
	Dionne Brand	No Language Is Neutral	Shortlist	^[12]
	Elizabeth Brewster	Spring Again
	Jan Conn	South of the Tudo Bem Cafe
1992	Kate Braid	Covering Rough Ground	Winner	^[13]
1993	Lorna Crozier	Inventing the Hawk	Winner	^[1]
1994	Diana Brebner	The Golden Lotus	Winner	^[14]
1995	Beth Goobie	Scars of Light	Winner	^[15]
1996	Lorna Crozier	Everything Arrives at the Light	Winner	^[16]
	Margaret Atwood	Morning in the Burned House	Shortlist	^[17]
	Di Brandt	Jerusalem, Beloved
	Anne Szumigalski	Voice
	Sharon Thesen	Aurora
	Sue Wheeler	Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry
1997	Marilyn Bowering	Autobiography	Winner	^[18]
	Roo Borson	Water Memory	Shortlist	^[19]
	Meira Cook	Toward a Catalogue of Falling
	Lynn Crosbie	Pearl
1998	Barbara Nickel	The Gladys Elegies	Winner	^[20]
	Dionne Brand	Land to Light On	Shortlist	^[21]
	April Bulmer	The Weight of Wings
	Heather Cadsby	A Tantrum of Synonyms
	Elisabeth Harvor	The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring

	Barbara Mulcahy	The Man With the Dancing Monkey
	Linda Rogers	Heaven Cake
Patricia Young	What I Remember From My Time on Earth
1999	Hilary Clark	More Light	Winner	^[22]

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Esta Spalding	Lost August	Winner	^[23]
	Susan Holbrook	Misled	Shortlist	^[24]
	Helen Humphreys	Anthem
	Erín Moure	The Frame of the Book
	Rachel Rose	Giving My Body to Science
2001	Sharon Thesen	A Pair of Scissors	Winner	^[25]
2002	Heather Spears	Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000	Winner	^[26]
2003	Dionne Brand	thirsty	Winner	^[1]
2004	Betsy Struthers	Still	Winner	^[27]
	Di Brandt	Now You Care	Shortlist	^[28]
	Mary Dalton	Merrybegot
	Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen	Or
	Jeanette Lynes	Left Fields
	Erin Noteboom	Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska
2005	Roo Borson	Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida	Winner	^[1]
	Ronna Bloom	Public Works	Shortlist	^[29]
	Aislinn Hunter	The Possible Past
	K. I. Press	Spine
	Sue Sinclair	The Drunken Lovely Bird
	Jan Zwicky	Robinson's Crossing
2006	Sylvia Legris	Nerve Squall	Winner	^[30]
2007	Sina Queyras	Lemon Hound	Winner	^[31]
2008	Anne Simpson	Quick	Winner	^[32]
	Alison Calder	Wolf Tree	Shortlist	^[33]
	Louise Bernice Halfe	The Crooked Good
	Nadine McInnis	Two Hemispheres
	Olive Senior	Shell
	Agnes Walsh	Going Around With Bachelors
2009	Alice Major	The Office Tower Tales	Winner	^[34]
	Margaret Christakos	What Stirs	Shortlist	^[34]
	Linda Frank	Kahlo: The World Split Open
	Daphne Marlatt	The Given
	Sue Sinclair	Breaker
	Heather Spears	I can still draw

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Karen Solie	Pigeon	Winner	^[35]
	Elizabeth Bachinsky	God of Missed Connections	Shortlist	^[36]
	Ronna Bloom	Permiso
	Sina Queyras	Expressway
	Damian Rogers	Paper Radio
	Laisha Rosnau	Lousy Explorers
2011	Evelyn Lau	Living Under Plastic	Winner	^[37]
	Dionne Brand	Ossuaries	Shortlist	^[38]
	Di Brandt	Walking to Mojácar
	Alice Major	Memory’s Daughter
	Pamela Porter	Cathedral
	Nela Rio	La luna, Tango, siempre la luna/ The Moon, Tango, Always the Moon
2012	Susan Goyette	outskirts	Winner	^[39]
	Stephanie Bolster	A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth	Shortlist	^[40]
	Lorna Crozier	Small Mechanics
	Rosemary Griebel	Yes
	Amanda Jernigan	Groundwork
	Jan Zwicky	Forge
2013	Rachel Rose	Song and Spectacle	Winner	^[41]
	Marilyn Bowering	Soul Mouth	Shortlist	^[42]
	Julie Bruck	Monkey Ranch
	Lorna Crozier	The Book of Marvels
	Maureen Scott Harris	Slow Curve Out
	Evelyn Lau	A Grain of Rice
2014	Alexandra Oliver	Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway	Winner	^[43]
	Elizabeth Bachinsky	The Hottest Summer in Recorded History	Shortlist	^[44]
	Anne Compton	Alongside
	Sadiqa de Meijer	Leaving Howe Island
	Micheline Maylor	Whirr and Click
	Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang	Status Update
2015	Sina Queyras	MxT	Winner	^[45]
	Joanne Arnott	Halfling Spring: an internet romance	Shortlist	^[46]
	Jen Currin	School
	Judy Halebsky	Tree Line
	Jude Neale	A Quiet Coming of Light
	Lisa Robertson	Cinema of the Present
2016	Lorna Crozier	The Wrong Cat	Winner	^[47]
	Rosanna Deerchild	calling down the sky	Shortlist	^[48]
	Adebe DeRango-Adem	Terra Incognita
	Maureen Hynes	The Poison Colour
	Rachel Rose	Marry & Burn
	Sarah Tolmie	Trio
2017	Sue Sinclair	Heaven's Thieves	Winner	^[49]
	Juliane Okot Bitek	100 Days	Shortlist	^[50]
	Anne Carson	Float
	Julie Cameron Gray	Lady Crawford
	Alexandra Oliver	Let the Empire Down
	Johanna Skibsrud	The Description of the World
2018	Lesley Belleau	Indianland	Winner	^[51]
	Mary di Michele	Bicycle Thieves	Shortlist	^[52]
	Susan Elmslie	Museum of Kindness
	Beth Goobie	Breathing at Dusk
	Catherine Owen	Dear Ghost
	Phoebe Wang	Admission Requirements
2019	Klara du Plessis	Ekke	Winner	^[53]
	Dani Couture	Listen Before Transmit	Shortlist	^[54]
	Emilia Nielsen	Body Work
	Laura Ritland	East and West
	Deanna Young	Reunion
	Jennifer Zilm	The Missing Field

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Chantal Gibson	How She Read	Winner	^[55]
	Roxanna Bennett	Unmeaningable	Shortlist	^[56]
	Maureen Hynes	Sotto Voce
	Doyali Islam	heft
	Michelle Porter	Inquiries
	Karen Solie	The Caiplie Caves
	Souvankham Thammavongsa	Cluster
2021	Noor Naga	Washes, Prays	Winner	^[57]
	Cicely Belle Blain	Burning Sugar	Shortlist	^[58]
	Jody Chan	Sick
	Jillian Christmas	the gospel of breaking
	Kyla Jamieson	Body Count
	shalan joudry	Waking Ground
2022	Selina Boan	Undoing Hours	Winner	^[59]
	Sheri Benning	Field Requiem	Shortlist	^[60]
	Margaret Christakos	Dear Birch
	Leah Horlick	Moldovan Hotel
	Lillian Nećakov	Il Virus
	Rebecca Salazar	sulphurtongue
2023	Gillian Sze	Quiet Night Think	Winner	^[61]
	Sylvia D. Hamilton	Tender	Shortlist	^[62]
	Annick MacAskill	Shadow Blight
	Cecily Nicholson	Harrowings
	Juliane Okot Bitek	A Is for Acholi
	Lisa Robertson	Boat

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