The Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Book Awards
Pat Lowther Award
Submission Requirements
Submission Form
Winner's Press Release
Pat Lowther Memorial Awards 2006 Shortlist
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a Canadian
woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat
Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The
award carries a $1,000 prize. It is presented each year at the League's
Annual General Meeting in May or June, with the shortlist announced in
April.
Previous Winners of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
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 Mourū, 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
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