We are thrilled to announce the 2014 Poetry Awards shortlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, 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 2014 SHORTLIST

the place of scraps by Jordan Abel (Talonbooks) | Rove by Laurie D. Graham (Hagios Press) | Light Light by Julie Joosten (Book*hug) | Surge Narrows by Emilia Nielsen (Leaf Press) | The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild by Murray Reiss (Hagios Press) | Incarnate by Juleta Severson-Baker (Frontenac House)

2014 jury: Keith Garebian, Carl Leggo, Pearl Pirie

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PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD 2014 SHORTLIST

The Hottest Summer in Recorded History by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood Editions) | Alongside by Anne Compton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) | Leaving Howe Island by Sadiqa de Meijer (Oolichan Books) | Whirr and Click by Micheline Maylor (Frontenac House Poetry) | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway by Alexandra Oliver (Biblioasis) | Status Update by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (Oolichan Books)

 

2014 jury: Betsy Struthers, Elizabeth Greene, Cornelia Hoogland

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RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD 2014 SHORTLIST

seldom seen road by Jenna Butler (NeWest Press) | Alongside by Anne Compton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) | Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects by Catherine Graham (Wolsak & Wynn) | Rebel Women by Vancy Kasper (Inanna Publications) | Brilliant Falls by John Terpstra (Gaspereau Press) | Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton (Harbour Publishing)

2014 Jurors: Bruce Hunter, Laurence Hutchman, Sheila Martindale

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