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. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.
[edit] Winners
- 2006 - Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
- 2005 - Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
- 2004 - Betsy Struthers, Still
- 2003 - Dionne Brand, Thirsty
- 2002 - Heather Spears, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000
- 2001 - Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
- 2000 - Esta Spalding, Lost August
- 1999 - Hilary Clark, More Light
- 1998 - Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
- 1997 - Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
- 1996 - Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
- 1995 - Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
- 1994 - Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus
- 1993 - Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
- 1992 - Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
- 1991 - Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
- 1990 - Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
- 1989 - Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
- 1988 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
- 1987 - Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
- 1986 - Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
- 1985 - Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
- 1984 - Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant
- 1983 - Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
- 1982 - Rona Murray, Journey
- 1981 - M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
[edit] See also
- Canadian poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Gerald Lampert Award
