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.
1981 - M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-19781982 - Rona Murray, Journey1983 - Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History1984 - Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant1985 - Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation1986 - Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel1987 - Heather Spears, How to Read Faces1988 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds1989 - Heather Spears, The Word for Sand1990 - Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers1991 - Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body1992 - Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground1993 - Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk1994 - Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus1995 - Beth Goobie, Scars of Light1996 - Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light1997 - Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography1998 - Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies1999 - Hilary Clark, More Light2000 - Esta Spalding, Lost August2001 - Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors2002 - Heather Spears, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-20002003 - Dionne Brand, thirsty2004 - Betsy Struthers, Still2005 - Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida2006 - Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall2007 - Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound2008 - Anne Simpson, Quick 2009 - Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales2010 - Karen Solie, Pigeon2011 - Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic2012 - Sue Goyette, outskirts2013 - Rachel Rose, Song and Spectacle2014 - Alexandra Oliver, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway2015 - Sina Queyras, MxT2016 - Lorna Crozier, The Wrong CatPat Lowther Award Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA