Pat Lowther Award

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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]

Winners and shortlists

1980s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
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

1990s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
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]

2000s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
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

2010s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
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

2020s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
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
2025	Faith Arkorful	The Seventh Town of Ghosts	Shortlist	[65]
	Manahil Bandukwala	Heliotropia
	Shani Mootoo	Oh Witness Dey!
	Zehra Naqvi	The Knot of My Tongue
	Bren Simmers	The Work
	Barbara Tran	Precedented Parroting

See also

• Canadian poetry
• List of literary awards honoring women
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Gerald Lampert Award