We are thrilled to announce the 2015 Poetry Awards shortlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners of these awards will be announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on Saturday, June 10. Throughout the next few months, visit our News page to find interviews with and more information about all the shortlisted authors.

GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD 2015 SHORTLIST

For Your Safety Please Hold On by Kayla Czaga (Nightwood Editions) | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You by Sylvia D. Hamilton (Gaspereau Press) | [Sharps] by Stevie Howell (Goose Lane Editions) | Inheritance by Kerry-Lee Powell (Biblioasis) | Failure to Thrive by Suzannah Showler (ECW Press) | The Quiet by Anne-Marie Turza (House of Anansi Press)

2015 jury: Sonja Greckol, Charles Mountford, David Seymour

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PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD 2015 SHORTLIST

halfling spring: an internet romance by Joanne Arnott (Kegedonce Press) | School by Jen Currin (Coach House Books) | Tree Line by Judy Halebsky (Western Michigan UP) | A Quiet Coming of Light by Jude Neale (Leaf Press) | MxT by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books) | Cinema of the Present by Lisa Robertson (Coach House Books)

 

2015 jury: Di Brandt, Candice Jams, Concetta Principe

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RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD 2015 SHORTLIST

Hyena Subpoena by Catherine Kidd (Popolo Press / Wired on Words) | Washita by Patrick Lane (Harbour Publishing Co.) | Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths by Susan Paddon (Brick Books) | Pluck by Laisha Rosnau (Harbour Publishing) | Complicity by Adam Sol (McClelland & Stewart) | Janey’s Arcadia by Rachel Zolf (Coach House Books)

2015 Jurors: Micheline Maylor, Susan McMaster, D.C. Reid

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