ThePat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by theLeague of Canadian Poets to the year's best book ofpoetry by a Canadian woman.[1] The award was established in 1980 to honour poetPat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975.[1] Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.[1]
Year | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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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 | |||
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 |
Year | Poet | Title | Result | Ref. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 | |||
2024 | Sandra Ridley | Vixen | Winner | [63] |
Britta Badour | Wires That Sputter | Shortlist | [64] | |
Eva H.D. | The Natural Hustle | |||
Laila Malik | Archipelago | |||
Kate Siklosi | Selvage | |||
Kai Cheng Thom | Falling Back in Love with Being Human |