2019 Book Awards: Longlists
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2019 Book Awards Longlists, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.
2019 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD SHORTLIST
Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized author tours and took a particular interest in the work of new writers. The award recognizes a first book of poetry published by a Canadian writer in the preceding year. The award carries a $2000 prize and is sponsored by the LCP.
Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron (Goose Lane Edition) | Short Histories of Light by Aidan Chafe (McGill-Queen’s University Press) | Ekke by Klara du Plessis (Palimpsest Press) | Quarry by Tanis Franco (University of Calgary Press) | Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit by Mikko Harvey (House of Anansi Press) | Dividing the Wayside by Jenny Haysom (Palimpsest Press) | Obits. by Tess Liem (Coach House Books) | No Meeting Without Body by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press) | We Like Feelings. We Are Serious. by Julie McIsaac (Wolsak & Wynn) | Port of Being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji (Invisible Publishing) | East and West by Laura Ritland (Véhicule Press) | Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik (Coach House Books)
2019 jury: Adebe DeRango-Adem, Amanda Earl, and Jacob McArthur Mooney
2019 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD SHORTLIST
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a woman in Canada, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The award carries a $2,000 prize. This award is inclusive of trans women and non-binary individuals who feel comfortable being recognized by a women’s prize.
Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway (Book*hug) | The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart) | Mrs Romanov by Lori Cayer (The Porcupine’s Quill) | Listen Before Transmit by Dani Couture (Wolsak & Wynn) | Ekke by Klara du Plessis (Palimpsest Press) | Body Works by Emilia Nielsen (Signature Editions) | I left nothing inside on purpose by Stevie Howell (McClelland & Stewart) | Obits. by Tess Liem (Coach House Books) | Port of Being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji (Invisible Publishing) | East and West by Laura Ritland (Véhicule Press) | Reunion by Deanna Young (Brick Books) | The Missing Field by Jennifer Zilm (Guernica Editions)
2019 jury: Robert Colman, Brenda Leifso, and Shane Neilson.
2019 RAYMOND SOUSTER SHORTLIST
Correspondent by Dominique Bernier-Cormier (Goose Lane Editions) | How to Avoid Huge Ships by Julie Bruck (Brick Books) | Mrs Romanov by Lori Cayer (The Porcupine’s Quill) | God of Shadows by Lorna Crozier (McClelland & Stewart) | Anatomic by Adam Dickinson (Coach House Books) | Trauma Head by Elee Kraljii Gardiner (Anvil Press) | No Line in Time by Sonja Ruth Greckol (Tightrope Books) | I left nothing inside on purpose by Stevie Howell (McClelland & Stewart) | Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major (University of Alberta Press) | Tar Swan by David Martin (NeWest Press) | Rooster, Dog, Crow by Jim Nason (Frontenac House) | Ledi by Kim Trainor (Book*hug)
2019 jury: Kathy Mac, Maurice Mierau, and Concetta Principe.
Congratulations to all of the longlisted poets and their publishers for their fine work! Many thanks to the jurors for their dedication to this year’s awards!