Gerald Lampert Award

Template:Short description The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert.<ref name=canenc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

In its earliest years, the award was not necessarily limited to poetry, but was presented to the year's best first book by a Canadian writer in either poetry or prose.<ref name=columnist>"Columnist wins award". The Globe and Mail, April 15, 1982.</ref>

Winners and nominees

1980s

Gerald Lampert Award winners and nominees

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
1981	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner
1982	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=columnist/>
	Template:Sortname	Schielber	Winner
1983	Template:Sortname	Matinee Light	Winner
1984	Template:Sortname	Gone to Grass	Winner	<ref>"Storytellers". Regina Leader-Post, May 28, 1984.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Night Travellers	Winner
1985	Template:Sortname	Celestial Navigation	Winner	<ref>Patricia Lakes, "Nelson poet said to be winner of book award". Vancouver Sun, June 6, 1985.</ref>
1986	Template:Sortname	Raspberry Vinegar	Winner	<ref>Burt Heward, "Cover to cover". Ottawa Citizen, May 3, 1986.</ref>
1987	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>"Sullivan honored for poetry book". The Globe and Mail, May 9, 1987.</ref>
1988	Template:Sortname	Questions I Asked My Mother	Winner	<ref>H.J. Kirchhoff, "Four writers honored by authors' group". The Globe and Mail, June 1, 1988.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	If Summer Had a Knife	Shortlist	<ref name="allison">"Allison, MacEwen make short list for poetry award". The Globe and Mail, April 27, 1988.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Future Rivers
1989	Template:Sortname	Journey to Yalta	Winner	<ref>"Notes to you..." Edmonton Journal, May 13, 1989.</ref>

1990s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
1990	Template:Sortname	Stalin's Carnival	Winner	<ref>"Notes to you...". Edmonton Journal, June 2, 1990.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Maria Breaks Her Silence	Shortlist	<ref>"City poet in line for Lampert prize". Edmonton Journal, April 19, 1990.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Open Room
	Template:Sortname	Batoche
	Template:Sortname	Cold Rubber Feet
1991	Template:Sortname	Radiant Life Forms	Winner	<ref>"League awards poets". Edmonton Journal, June 2, 1991.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref name="1991list">"Brand, Brewster nominated for award". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 1991.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Impromptu Feats of Balance
	Template:Sortname	Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude
1992	Template:Sortname	Wiles of Girlhood	Winner	<ref>Burt Heward, "Ottawa poet wins national contest". Ottawa Citizen, May 23, 1992.</ref>
1993	Template:Sortname	Fortress of Chairs	Winner	<ref>"Novice poets share national prize". Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1993.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Eyes Like Pigeons	Winner
1994	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>"Winners". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, July 2, 1994.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Mad Magellan's Tale	Winner
1995	Template:Sortname	Dementia Americana	Winner	<ref>"Beth Goobie wins poetry award". Montreal Gazette, June 26, 1995.</ref>
1996	Template:Sortname	Rough Skin	Winner	<ref>"Canadian poets' league presents awards". Ottawa Citizen, June 7, 1996.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Asphalt Cigar	Shortlist	<ref>"Atwood nominated for prize". The Globe and Mail, May 8, 1996.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Carrying Place
	Template:Sortname	A Thousand Homes
	Template:Sortname	Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry
1997	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref name=canenc/>
	Template:Sortname	Calm Jazz Sea	Shortlist	<ref>"7 writers win prizes". The Globe and Mail, May 9, 1997.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Fear of the Ride
	Template:Sortname	The Unhinging of Wings
	Template:Sortname	Climate and the Affections
	Template:Sortname	Clay Birds
	Template:Sortname	Shadow Cabinet
	Template:Sortname	God on His Haunches
1998	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>Christopher Levenson, "Poetry took the fall". Ottawa Citizen, April 6, 1998.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Hard Candy	Shortlist	<ref>"Two Montrealers in running for poetry prizes". Montreal Gazette, April 6, 1998.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Towards the Quest
	Template:Sortname	The Man With the Dancing Monkey
	Template:Sortname	The New World
1999	Template:Sortname	White Stone: The Alice Poems	Winner	<ref>Gordon Morash, "Edmonton poets shut out; Their absence from the podium shocks contest organizers". Edmonton Journal, June 13, 1999.</ref>

2000s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Template:Sortname	All the God-Sized Fruit	Winner	<ref>"Spalding wins poetry award". The Globe and Mail, June 6, 2000.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref name="lists">"The lists are in: Prizes, prizes and more prizes". Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2000.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Storm Still	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Giving My Body to Science	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
2001	Template:Sortname	Light Falls Through You	Winner	<ref name=canenc/>
2002	Template:Sortname	Into the Early Hours	Winner	<ref>Alexandra Gill, "A little the verse for wear". The Globe and Mail, January 1, 2003.</ref>
2003	Template:Sortname	Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth	Winner	<ref>"Dionne Brand wins Pat Lowther Award". The Globe and Mail, May 27, 2003.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Science Fiction Saint	Shortlist	<ref>Rebecca Wigod, "The book of Elise: A poet who hung on Robert Lowell's every word marshals her own". Vancouver Sun, April 19, 2003.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Rural Night Catalogue	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	what the auntys say	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Instruments of Surrender	Shortlist
2004	Template:Sortname	Reconciliation	Winner	<ref>"Poets not afraid to self-promote". Montreal Gazette, April 17, 2004.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Bonfires	Shortlist	<ref name="2004list">"Poets shortlist announced". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 17, 2004.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Question & Answer	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Wayward	Shortlist
2005	Template:Sortname	Anthropy	Winner	<ref>John Moore, "Award winners follow B.C. publisher White". Vancouver Sun, February 18, 2006.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Postscript	Shortlist	<ref name="2005list">"Shortlists unveiled for Lowther, Lampert prizes". The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2005.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Little Horse	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Monk's Fruit	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Lean Days	Shortlist
2006	Template:Sortname	Past Imperfect	Winner	<ref>"Poets enter League of their own". Ottawa Citizen, June 11, 2006.</ref>
2007	Template:Sortname	Anatomy of Keys	Winner	<ref>"Calder beat out for top poetry prizes". Winnipeg Free Press, June 23, 2008.</ref>
2008	Template:Sortname	Making Bones Walk	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Radius of Light	Shortlist	<ref name="2008list">"Shortlisted for poetry prizes". The Globe and Mail, April 2, 2008.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Wolf Tree	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Contrary Infatuations	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Ride Backwards on Dragon	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
2009	Template:Sortname	what if red ran out	Winner	<ref name="2009list">"Winners of the Template:Sicthe Path Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards Announced" Template:Webarchive. Open Book Toronto, June 15, 2009.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Evening Land	Shortlist	<ref name="2009list" />
	Template:Sortname	Crabwise to the Hounds	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Fond	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Late Nights With Wild Cowboys	Shortlist

2010s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Template:Sortname	Gun Dogs	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref>"The shortlists for the Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards announced". McNally Robinson, April 7, 2010.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Soft Where	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Inventory	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Something Burned Along the Southern Border	Shortlist
2011	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	<ref>Tracy Sherlock, "Anna Swanson; Debut collection proves doubly lucky for 'Lesbian Poet'"]. Kamloops Daily News, August 13, 2011.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	That Other Beauty	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Tiny, Frantic, Stronger	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	[sic]	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Here Is Where We Disembark	Shortlist
2012	Template:Sortname	Sweet Devilry	Winner	<ref>Merilyn Simonds, "Finding poetry in Facebook". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 20, 2013.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	True	Shortlist	<ref name="2012list2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Yes	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Paramita	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Do Not Call Me By My Name	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Gulf	Shortlist
2013	Template:Sortname	Notebook M	Winner	<ref>Maria Siassina, "League of Canadian Poets announce award winners". Quill & Quire, June 13, 2013.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Charms Against Lightning	Shortlist	<ref name="2013list">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	I see my love more clearly from a distance	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Sumptuary Laws	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Repeater	Shortlist
2014	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref name=":11">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Rove	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Light Light	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Surge Narrows	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Incarnate	Shortlist
2015	Template:Sortname	For Your Safety Please Hold On	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	And I Alone Escaped to Tell You	Shortlist	<ref name="dundas2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Sharps	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Inheritance	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Failure to Thrive	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
2016	Template:Sortname	Otter	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Rue	Shortlist	<ref name=":7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Laws & Locks	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Transmitter and Receiver	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Hacker Packer	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Mockingbird	Shortlist
2017	Template:Sortname	This Being	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Assdeep in Wonder	Shortlist	<ref name="2017shortlist2">Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Players	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Songs of Exile	Shortlist
2018	Template:Sortname	Otolith	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	This Wound is a World	Shortlist	<ref name=":12">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Faunics	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Thin Air of the Knowable	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Admission Requirements	Shortlist
2019	Template:Sortname	Obits.	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Quarry	Shortlist	<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Dividing the Wayside	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Ekke	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Port of Being	Shortlist

2020s

Year	Poet	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Template:Sortname	Float and Scurry	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Doubter's Hymnal	Shortlist	<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Re-Origin of Species	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	these are not the potatoes of my youth	Shortlist
2021	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname	Shortlist	<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	I Am Still Your Negro	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Where Things Touch	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Bones	Shortlist
	Template:Sortname	Bittersweet	Shortlist
2022	Template:Sortname	Qorbanot: Offerings	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Undoing Hours	Shortlist	<ref name="2022shortlist">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Dream of No One but Myself
	Template:Sortname	Creeland
	Template:Sortname	I will be more myself in the next world
	Template:Sortname	Mouthfuls of Space
	Template:Sortname	Intruder
2023
	Template:Sortname	Whitemud Walking	Winner	<ref>"Matthew James Weigel, Gillian Sze, Adebe DeRango-Adem win League of Canadian Poets book awards". Quill & Quire, May 4, 2023.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Monument	Shortlist	<ref>Cassandra Drudi, "League of Canadian Poets announces 2023 Book Awards shortlists". Quill & Quire, April 20, 2023.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Transcribing Moonlight
	Template:Sortname	Orion Sweeping
	Template:Sortname	Shapeshifters
	Template:Sortname	My Grief, the Sun
2024	Template:Sortname	Xanax Cowboy	Winner	<ref>"Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Wires That Sputter	Shortlist	<ref>Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2024 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, April 17, 2024.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The All + Flesh
	Template:Sortname	Chores
	Template:Sortname	Archipelago
	Template:Sortname	More Sure
2025	Template:Sortname	The Seventh Town of Ghosts	Shortlist	<ref>Cassandra Drudi, "Shortlists announced for 2025 LCP Book Awards". Quill & Quire, May 7, 2025.</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Blood Belies
	Template:Sortname	Aqueous
	Template:Sortname	Dayo
	Template:Sortname	Precedented Parroting
	Template:Sortname	Scientific Marvel

External links

• League of Canadian Poets