The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2022 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award,  Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.

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2022 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST

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.

Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)

Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry)

Dream of No One but Myself by David Bradford (Brick Books)

Creeland by Dallas Hunt (Nightwood Editions)

Qorbanot: Offerings by Alisha Kaplan (SUNY)

I will be more myself in the next world by Matsuki Masutani (Mother Tongue Publishing)

Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi (Gordon Hill Press)

The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba (Palimpsest Press)

Mouthfuls of Space by Tom Prime (Anvil Press)

Little Housewolf by Medrie Purdham (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry)

sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart)

Intruder by Bardia Sinaee (House of Anansi Press)

Autowar by Assiyah Jamilla Touré (Brick Books)

2022 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST

Open to Canadian women, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. This prize is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The award carries a $2000 prize, and is sponsored by the LCP.

The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)

Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet Press)

Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)

Dear Birch, by Margaret Christakos (Palimpsest Press)

Solstice 2020 by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press)

awâsis – kinky and dishevelled by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer (Brick Books)

Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick (Brick Books)

Il Virus by Lillian Nećakov (Anvil Press)

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (Wave Poetry)

Oracule by Nicole Raziya Fong (Talonbooks)

sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart)

A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson (Frontenac House)

2022 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD LONGLIST

The Raymond Souster Award was started in 2013 to honour Raymond Souster, an early founder of the League of Canadian Poets. The award is presented annually for a book of poetry by a League member published in the preceding year. The award carries a $2000 prize, and is sponsored by the LCP.

The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)

The Lost Time Accidents by Síle Englert (Goose Lane Editions)

with/holding: Poems by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press)

awâsis – kinky and dishevelled by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer (Brick Books)

Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick (Brick Books)

Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli by D.A. Lockhart (Frontenac House)

The Bad Wife by Micheline Maylor (University of Alberta Press)

Blue Suitcase by Jim Nason (Mansfield Press)

The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba (Palimpsest Press)

Broken Dawn Blessings by Adam Sol (ECW Press)

A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson (Frontenac House)

Resurrection Fail by John Wall Barger (Spuyten Duyvil Press)