2013 Awards: Shortlists

We are thrilled to announce the 2013 Poetry Awards shortlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, the Raymond Souster Award. 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 2013 SHORTLIST

Charms Against Lightning by James Arthur (Copper Canyon Press) | I see my love more clearly from a distance by Nora Gould (Brick Books) | The Lease by Mathew Henderson (Coach House Books) | Sumptuary Laws by Nyla Matuk (Véhicule Press / A Signal Edition) | repeater by Andrew McEwan (Book*Hug) | Notebook M by Gillian Savigny (Insomniac Press)

2013 jury: Kathy Mac, Marguerite Pigeon, Heather Cadsby

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PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD 2013 SHORTLIST

Soul Mouth by Marilyn Bowering (Exile Editions) | Monkey Ranch by Julie Bruck (Brick Books) | The Book of Marvels by Lorna Crozier (Greystone Books) | Slow Curve Out by Maureen Scott Harris (Pedlar Press) | A Grain of Rice by Evelyn Lau (Oolichan Books) | Song and Spectacle by Rachel Rose (Harbour Publishing)

 

2013 jury: Kate Braid, Gay Allison, Marsha Barber

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RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD 2013 SHORTLIST

Hummingbird by John Wall Barger (Palimpset Press) | the Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems by Nancy Holmes (Ronsdale Press) | Wayworn Wooden Floros by Mark Lavorato (The Porcupine’s Quill) | Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin (Brick Books) | The New Measures by A.F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press Inc.) | no ordinary place by Pamela Porter (Ronsdale Press)

2013 Jurors: David Day, Louise Bernice Halfe, Barry Dempster

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