Pat Lowther Award



The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

Winners

 * 1981 - M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
 * 1982 - Rona Murray, Journey
 * 1983 - Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
 * 1984 - Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant
 * 1985 - Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
 * 1986 - Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
 * 1987 - Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
 * 1988 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
 * 1989 - Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
 * 1990 - Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
 * 1991 - Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
 * 1992 - Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
 * 1993 - Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
 * 1994 - Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus
 * 1995 - Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
 * 1996 - Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
 * 1997 - Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
 * 1998 - Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
 * 1999 - Hilary Clark, More Light
 * 2000 - Esta Spalding, Lost August
 * 2001 - Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
 * 2002 - Heather Spears, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000
 * 2003 - Dionne Brand, thirsty
 * 2004 - Betsy Struthers, Still
 * 2005 - Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
 * 2006 - Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall
 * 2007 - Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound
 * 2008 - Anne Simpson, Quick
 * 2009 - Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales 
 * 2010 - Karen Solie, Pigeon
 * 2011 - Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic