Pat Lowther 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]

For other uses, see Lowther (disambiguation).

Winners and shortlists
Pat Lowther Award winners and shortlists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1981 M. Travis Lane Divinations and Short Poems 1973–1978 Winner
1982 Rona Murray Journey Winner
1983 Rhea Tregebov Remembering History Winner
1984 Bronwen Wallace Signs of the Former Tenant Winner [1]
1985 Paulette Jiles Celestial Navigation Winner
1986 Erín Moure Domestic Fuel Winner [1]
1987 Heather Spears How to Read Faces Winner
1988 Gwendolyn MacEwen Afterworlds Winner [1]
Gay Allison The Unravelling Shortlist [2]
Judith Fitzgerald Diary of Desire Shortlist [2]
Sharon Thesen The Beginning of the Long Dash Shortlist [2]
Bronwen Wallace The Stubborn Particulars of Grace Shortlist [2]
1989 Heather Spears The Word for Sand Winner
Joan Finnigan The Watershed Collection Shortlist
Erín Moure Furious Shortlist
1990 Patricia Young The Mad and Beautiful Mothers Winner
1991 Karen Connelly The Small Words in My Body Winner
Dionne Brand No Language Is Neutral Shortlist [3]
Elizabeth Brewster Spring Again Shortlist [3]
Jan Conn South of the Tudo Bem Cafe Shortlist [3]
1992 Kate Braid Covering Rough Ground Winner
1993 Lorna Crozier Inventing the Hawk Winner [1]
1994 Diana Brebner The Golden Lotus Winner
1995 Beth Goobie Scars of Light Winner
1996 Lorna Crozier Everything Arrives at the Light Winner [1]
1997 Marilyn Bowering Autobiography Winner
1998 Barbara Nickel The Gladys Elegies Winner
1999 Hilary Clark More Light Winner
2000 Esta Spalding Lost August Winner
Susan Holbrook Misled Shortlist [4]
Helen Humphreys Anthem Shortlist [4]
Erín Moure The Frame of the Book Shortlist [4]
Rachel Rose Giving My Body to Science Shortlist [4]
2001 Sharon Thesen A Pair of Scissors Winner
2002 Heather Spears Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000 Winner
2003 Dionne Brand thirsty Winner [1]
2004 Betsy Struthers Still Winner [5]
Di Brandt Now You Care Shortlist [6]
Mary Dalton Merrybegot Shortlist [6]
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen Or Shortlist [6]
Jeanette Lynes Left Fields Shortlist [6]
Erin Noteboom Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska Shortlist [6]
2005 Roo Borson Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida Winner [1][7]
Ronna Bloom Public Works Shortlist [8]
Aislinn Hunter The Possible Past Shortlist [8]
K. I. Press Spine Shortlist [8]
Sue Sinclair The Drunken Lovely Bird Shortlist [8]
Jan Zwicky Robinson's Crossing Shortlist [8]
2006 Sylvia Legris Nerve Squall Winner [9]
2007 Sina Queyras Lemon Hound Winner [10]
2008 Anne Simpson Quick Winner [11]
Alison Calder Wolf Tree Shortlist [12]
Louise Bernice Halfe The Crooked Good Shortlist [12]
Nadine McInnis Two Hemispheres Shortlist [12]
Olive Senior Shell Shortlist [12]
Agnes Walsh Going Around With Bachelors Shortlist [12]
2009 Alice Major The Office Tower Tales Winner [13]
Margaret Christakos What Stirs Shortlist [13][14]
Linda Frank Kahlo: The World Split Open Shortlist [13]
Daphne Marlatt The Given Shortlist [13]
Sue Sinclair Breaker Shortlist [13]
Heather Spears I can still draw Shortlist [13]
2010 Karen Solie Pigeon Winner [1][15]
Elizabeth Bachinsky God of Missed Connections Shortlist
Ronna Bloom Permiso Shortlist
Sina Queyras Expressway Shortlist
Damian Rogers Paper Radio Shortlist
Laisha Rosnau Lousy Explorers Shortlist
2011 Evelyn Lau Living Under Plastic Winner
Dionne Brand Ossuaries Shortlist [16][17]
Di Brandt Walking to Mojácar Shortlist [16][17]
Alice Major Memory’s Daughter Shortlist [16][17]
Pamela Porter Cathedral Shortlist [16][17]
Nela Rio La luna, Tango, siempre la luna/ The Moon, Tango, Always the Moon Shortlist [16][17]
2012 Susan Goyette outskirts Winner [18]
Stephanie Bolster A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth Shortlist [19][20]
Lorna Crozier Small Mechanics Shortlist [19][20]
Rosemary Griebel Yes Shortlist [19][20]
Amanda Jernigan Groundwork Shortlist [19][20]
Jan Zwicky Forge Shortlist [19][20]
2013 Rachel Rose Song and Spectacle Winner [21][22]
Marilyn Bowering Soul Mouth Shortlist [23]
Julie Bruck Monkey Ranch Shortlist [23]
Lorna Crozier The Book of Marvels Shortlist [23]
Maureen Scott Harris Slow Curve Out Shortlist [23]
Evelyn Lau A Grain of Rice Shortlist [23]
2014 Alexandra Oliver Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway Winner [24][25]
Elizabeth Bachinsky The Hottest Summer in Recorded History Shortlist [26]
Anne Compton Alongside Shortlist [26]
Sadiqa de Meijer Leaving Howe Island Shortlist [26]
Micheline Maylor Whirr and Click Shortlist [26]
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Status Update Shortlist [26]
2015 Sina Queyras MxT Winner [27]
Joanne Arnott Halfling Spring: an internet romance Shortlist [28][29]
Jen Currin School Shortlist [28][29]
Judy Halebsky Tree Line Shortlist [28][29]
Jude Neale A Quiet Coming of Light Shortlist [28][29]
Lisa Robertson Cinema of the Present Shortlist [28][29]
2016 Lorna Crozier The Wrong Cat Winner [30]
Rosanna Deerchild calling down the sky Shortlist [31][32]
Adebe DeRango-Adem Terra Incognita Shortlist [33][32]
Maureen Hynes The Poison Colour Shortlist [32]
Rachel Rose Marry & Burn Shortlist [32]
Sarah Tolmie Trio Shortlist [32]
2017 Sue Sinclair Heaven's Thieves Winner [34][35]
Juliane Okot Bitek 100 Days Shortlist [36][37]
Anne Carson Float Shortlist [36][37]
Julie Cameron Gray Lady Crawford Shortlist [36][37]
Alexandra Oliver Let the Empire Down Shortlist [36][37]
Johanna Skibsrud The Description of the World Shortlist [36][37]
2018 Lesley Belleau Indianland Winner [38]
Mary di Michele Bicycle Thieves Shortlist [39]
Susan Elmslie Museum of Kindness Shortlist [39]
Beth Goobie Breathing at Dusk Shortlist [39]
Catherine Owen Dear Ghost Shortlist [39]
Phoebe Wang Admission Requirements Shortlist [39]
2019 Klara du Plessis Ekke Winner [40][41]
Dani Couture Listen Before Transmit Shortlist [42][43]
Emilia Nielsen Body Work Shortlist [42][43]
Laura Ritland East and West Shortlist [42][43]
Deanna Young Reunion Shortlist [42][43]
Jennifer Zilm The Missing Field Shortlist [42][43]
2020 Chantal Gibson How She Read Winner [44][45][46]
Roxanna Bennett Unmeaningable  Shortlist [47]
Maureen Hynes Sotto Voce Shortlist [47]
Doyali Islam heft Shortlist [47]
Michelle Porter Inquiries  Shortlist [47]
Karen Solie The Caiplie Caves  Shortlist [47]
Souvankham Thammavongsa Cluster Shortlist [47]
2021 Noor Naga Washes, Prays Winner [48][49][50]
Cicely Belle Blain Burning Sugar Shortlist [51][52]
Jody Chan Sick Shortlist [51][52]
Jillian Christmas the gospel of breaking Shortlist [51][52]
Kyla Jamieson Body Count Shortlist [51][52]
shalan joudry Waking Ground Shortlist [51][52]
2022 Selina Boan Undoing Hours Winner [53][54][55]
Sheri Benning Field Requiem Shortlist [56]
Margaret Christakos Dear Birch Shortlist [56]
Leah Horlick Moldovan Hotel Shortlist [56]
Lillian Nećakov Il Virus Shortlist [56]
Rebecca Salazar sulphurtongue Shortlist [56]
2023 Sylvia D. Hamilton Tender Shortlist [57]
Annick MacAskill Shadow Blight
Cecily Nicholson Harrowings
Juliane Okot Bitek A Is for Acholi
Lisa Robertson Boat
Gillian Sze Quiet Night Think

See also

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