Thank you to all the publishers and poets who submitted their books for consideration in our 2017 books awards! Below, you’ll find a complete list of submissions for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Raymond Souster Award. The shortlists for all three awards will be announced in early April, 2017, with the winners announced and celebrated in June! Keep your eyes on poets.ca/awards for all the latest information.
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PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD
| Book Title | Author |
| A Bedroom of Searchlights | Joanna M. Weston |
| Red with Living | Diane Driedger |
| The Largeness of Rescue | Eva Tihanyi |
| even this page is white | Vivek Shraya |
| A Pillow Book | Suzanne Buffam |
| Looking for Light | Susan Ioannou |
| Ceremony of Touching | Karen Shklanka |
| Burning in this Midnight Dream | Louise Bernice Halfe |
| Look at Her | Vanessa Shields |
| Blood Orange | Heidi Garnett |
| Silent Sister | Beth Everest |
| How We Fare | Mary Ann Mulhern |
| Winnows | Maxianne Berger |
| The Back Channels | Jennifer Houle |
| Mood Swing, with Pear | Sue MacLeod |
| The After Party | Jana Prikryl |
| Songs of Exile | Banoo Zan |
| Ukrainian Daughter’s Dance | Marion Mutala |
| The Blomidon Logs | Deirdre Dwyer |
| Slow States of Collapse | Ashley-Elizabeth Best |
| The Hideous Hidden | Sylvia Legris |
| Leave-Taking | Marilyn Potter |
| Magyarazni | Helen Hajnoczky |
| Whelmed | Nicole Markotic |
| Throaty Wipes | Susan Holbrook |
| 3 Summers | Lisa Robertson |
| In on the Great Joke | Laura Broadbent |
| Float | Anne Carson |
| Settler Education | Laurie D. Graham |
| 100 Days | Juliane Okot Bitek |
| This Being | Ingrid Ruthig |
| Stomata | Genevieve Lehr |
| Selah | Nora Gould |
| Tell Them It Was Mozart | Angeline Schellenberg |
| Heaven’s Thieves | Sue Sinclair |
| Off-Leash | Dorothy Mahoney |
| Lady Crawford | Julie Cameron Gray |
| Stranger | Nyla Matuk |
| Tomorrow’s Bright White Light | Jan Conn |
| Tourist | Lara Bozabalian |
| Dopamine Blunder | Lori Cayer |
| Poemw | Anne Fleming |
| Silvija | Sandra Ridley |
| How to Draw a Rhinoceros | Kate Sutherland |
| Buoyancy Control | Adrienne Gruber |
| Waiting Room | Jennifer Zilm |
| Colour Theory | Megan Mueller |
| Tidal Wave | Brenda Clews |
| Love Is A Very Long Word | Majlinda Bashllari |
| Short Takes on the Apocalypse | Patricia Young |
| Metanoia | Sharon McCartney |
| Let the Empire Down | Alexandra Oliver |
| Wind Leaves Absence | Mary Maxwell |
| A Map in My Blood | Carla Braidek |
| Half Rock | Robin Durnford |
| In the Small Hours | Erin Brubacher |
| Acquired Community | Jane Byers |
| Eating Matters | Kara-lee MacDonald |
| Gloryland | Carla Funk |
| Never Mind | Katherine Lawrence |
| Tight Wire | Kerry Gilbert |
| House of Mystery | Courtney Bates-Hardy |
| Barbaric Cultural Practice | Penn Kemp |
| Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cezanne | Susan McCaslin |
| Serpentine Loop | Elee Kraljii Gardiner |
| Kids in Triage | Kilby Smith-McGregor |
| The Description of the World | Johanna Skibsrud |
| Occasionally | Suparna Ghosh |
| Ghost Town | Susan Telfer |
| Tumour | Evelyn Lau |
| All the Gold Hurts My Mouth | Katherine Leyton |
| Dust of Fire | Alyda Faber |
| Small Fires | Kelly Norah Drukker |
| The Unlit Path Behind the House | Margo Wheaton |
| The Holy Nothing | Jessica Hiemstra |
| Hiroshima: A |
concetta principe |
| Totem Poles and Railroads | Janet Rogers |
| Heart Mechanic | Gisela Ruebsaat |
| Shakespearean Blues | Shirley Graham |
| Settle | Theresa Munoz |
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GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD
| Book Title | Author |
| even this page is white | Vivek Shraya |
| Big Medicine Comes to Erie | D. A. Lockhart |
| The Bone Weir | D. S. Stymeist |
| The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses | Michael E. Casteels |
| The Back Channels | Jennifer Houle |
| The After Party | Jana Prikryl |
| Songs of Exile | Banoo Zan |
| Slow States of Collapse | Ashley-Elizabeth Best |
| Leave-Taking | Marilyn Potter |
| Sleeping in Tall Grass | Richard Therrien |
| 100 Days | Juliane Okot Bitek |
| This Being | Ingrid Ruthig |
| Tell Them It Was Mozart | Angeline Schellenberg |
| Weathervane | Mark Sampson |
| Players | John Nyman |
| Late Victorians | Vincent Colistro |
| Model Disciple | Michael Prior |
| Poemw | Anne Fleming |
| How to Draw a Rhinoceros | Kate Sutherland |
| Waiting Room | Jennifer Zilm |
| Arguments for Lawn Chairs | Aaron Kreuter |
| Navy Blue | Steve Meagher |
| Tidal Wave | Brenda Clews |
| Colour Theory | Megan Mueller |
| Ontology of Blue | David Bellusci |
| Primal Testament | Ian Lancashire |
| Wind Leaves Absence | Mary Maxwell |
| Shift | Kelly Shepherd |
| In the Small Hours | Erin Brubacher |
| Eating Matters | Kara-lee MacDonald |
| Not Even Laughter | Phillip Crymble |
| House of Mystery | Courtney Bates-Hardy |
| Serpentine Loop | Elee Kraljii Gardiner |
| Assdeep in Wonder | Christopher Gudgeon |
| Kids in Triage | Kilby Smith-McGregor |
| Vanishing Act | Giles Blunt |
| All the Gold Hurts My Mouth | Katherine Leyton |
| Dust or Fire | Alyda Faber |
| Caribou Run | Richard Kelly Kemick |
| Small Fires | Kelly Norah Drukker |
| The Unlit Path Behind the House | Margo Wheaton |
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RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD
| Book Title | Author |
| The Largeness of Rescue | Eva Tihanyi |
| The Waking Comes Late | Steven Heighton |
| Helices | George Swede |
| Looking for Light | Susan Ioannou |
| Un/Wired | Stephen Bett |
| Burning in this Midnight Dream | Louise Bernice Halfe |
| Two Maps of Emery | Laurence Hutchman |
| Look at Her | Vanessa Shields |
| How We Fare | Mary Ann Mulhern |
| I’ll Be There Soon | John Wing Jr. |
| Zigzags | Roger Nash |
| Blood Orange | Heidi Garnett |
| Cemetery Compost | Murray Reiss |
| The Bone Weir | D. S. Stymeist |
| Silent Sister | Beth Everest |
| Touch Anywhere to Begin | Jim Nason |
| Martial Music | George Amabile |
| The Back Channels | Jennifer Houle |
| Songs of Exile | Banoo Zan |
| The Bird in the Stillness | Joe Rosenblatt |
| Whelmed | Nicole Markotic |
| Settler Education | Laurie D. Graham |
| Don’t Be Interesting | Jacob McArthur Mooney |
| Selah | Nora Gould |
| Tell Them It Was Mozart | Angeline Schellenberg |
| Meditatio Placentae | Monty Reid |
| Apres Satie | Dean Steadman |
| Disturbing the Buddha | Barry Dempster |
| Lady Crawford | Julie Cameron Gray |
| Off-Leash | Dorothy Mahoney |
| To Greet Yourself Arriving | Michael Fraser |
| Dopamine Blunder | Lori Cayer |
| Could You Please, Please Stop Singing | Sabyasachi Nag |
| Lost Originals | David B. Goldstein |
| Waiting Room | Jennifer Zilm |
| Conjugation | Phil Hall |
| Silvija | Sandra Ridley |
| Canticles I (mmxvi) | George Elliott Clarke |
| Ontology of Blue | David Bellusci |
| Primal Testament | Ian Lancashire |
| How to Draw a Rhinoceros | Kate Sutherland |
| Gold | George Elliott Clarke |
| Acquired Community | Jane Byers |
| Never Mind | Katherine Lawrence |
| departures | Dennis Cooley |
| Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cezanne | Susan McCaslin |
| Barbaric Cultural Practice | Penn Kemp |
| The Resumption of Play | Gary Geddes |
| Hyeana Season | Richard Osler |
| Serpentine Loop | Elee Kraljii Gardiner |
| Ignite | Kevin Spenst |
| The Description of the World | Johanna Skibsrud |
| Love, Despite the Ache | Chris Pannell |
| Of Architecture: The Territories of a Mind | Vladimir Azarov |
| Occasionally | Suparna Ghosh |
| All the Gold Hurts My Mouth | Katherine Leyton |
| Caribou Run | Richard Kelly Kemick |
| Small Fires | Kelly Norah Drukker |
| Where We Live | John Reibetanz |
| Ghost | Susan Telfer |
| Belly Full of Rocks | Tyler B. Perry |
| The Holy Nothing | Jessica Hiemstra |
| Hiroshima: A |
concetta principe |
| After All the Scissor Work is Done | David Fraser |
| Tight Wire | Kerry Gilbert |
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We received submissions from the following publishers for our 2017 awards:
- Anvil Press
- ARP Books
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
- Biblioasis
- Black Moss Press
- BlazeVOX Books
- BookThug
- Brick Books
- Caitlin Press
- Coach House Books
- Coteau Books
- ECW Press
- Exile Editions
- Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Frontenac House Press
- Gaspereau Press
- Guernica Editions
- Hidden Brook Press
- House of Anansi Press
- icehouse poetry
- Inanna Publications
- Invisible Publishing
- Kelp Queen Press/ChiZine Publications
- Leaf Press
- McClelland & Stewart
- McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Mosaic Press
- Mother Tongue Publishing
- Neitsche’s brolly
- New Directions Publishing
- Oolichan Books
- Palimpsest Press
- The Porcupine’s Quill
- Pedlar Press
- Quadra Books
- Quattro Books
- Red Moon Press
- Salmon Poetry
- Seraphin Editions
- Signature Editions
- Thistledown Press
- Tightrope Books
- Tim Duggan Books
- Turnstone Press
- University of Alberta Press
- Vagabond Voices Press
- Vehicule Press
- Wolsak & Wynn