Pat Lowther Award

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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. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

Winners

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

1985 - Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation

1986 - Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel

1987 - Heather Spears, How to Read Faces

1988 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds

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

1994 - Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus

1995 - Beth Goobie, Scars of Light

1996 - Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light

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

2004 - Betsy Struthers, Still

2005 - Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

2006 - Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall

2007 - Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound

2008 - Anne Simpson, Quick

2009 - Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales

2010 - Karen Solie, Pigeon

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

References

Pat Lowther Award Wikipedia

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