Gerald Lampert Award

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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. [1] Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

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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. [2]

Winners and nominees

1980s

Gerald Lampert Award winners and nominees
YearPoetTitleResultRef.
1981 Elizabeth Allan The Shored Up HouseWinner
1982 Edna Alford A Sleep Full of DreamsWinner [2]
Abraham Boyarsky SchielberWinner
1983 Diana Hartog Matinee LightWinner
1984 Jean McKay Gone to GrassWinner [3]
Sandra Birdsell Night TravellersWinner
1985 Paulette Jiles Celestial NavigationWinner [4]
1986 Joan Fern Shaw Raspberry VinegarWinner [5]
1987 Rosemary Sullivan The Space a Name Makes Winner [6]
1988 Di Brandt Questions I Asked My MotherWinner [7]
Beverly Daurio If Summer Had a KnifeShortlist [8]
Janet Simpson-Cooke Future Rivers
1989 Sarah Klassen Journey to YaltaWinner [9]

1990s

YearPoetTitleResultRef.
1990 Steven Heighton Stalin's CarnivalWinner [10]
Nancy Mattson Maria Breaks Her SilenceShortlist [11]
Bruce Meyer The Open Room
Kim Morrissey Batoche
Bruce Taylor Cold Rubber Feet
1991 Diana Brebner Radiant Life FormsWinner [12]
Lesley-Anne Bourne The Story of PearsShortlist [13]
Michael Redhill Impromptu Feats of Balance
Ronn Silverstein Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude
1992 Joanne Arnott Wiles of GirlhoodWinner [14]
1993 Elisabeth Harvor Fortress of ChairsWinner [15]
Roberta Rees Eyes Like PigeonsWinner
1994 Barbara Klar The Night You Called Me a ShadowWinner [16]
Ilya Tourtidis Mad Magellan's TaleWinner
1995 Keith Maillard Dementia AmericanaWinner [17]
1996 Maureen Hynes Rough SkinWinner [18]
Kevin Connolly Asphalt CigarShortlist [19]
Esta Spalding Carrying Place
Terry Watada A Thousand Homes
Sue Wheeler Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry
1997 Marilyn Dumont A Really Good Brown GirlWinner [1]
Mike Barnes Calm Jazz SeaShortlist [20]
Ronna Bloom Fear of the Ride
Margo Button The Unhinging of Wings
Crispin Elsted Climate and the Affections
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen Clay Birds
Richard Sanger Shadow Cabinet
Diane L. Tucker God on His Haunches
1998 Mark Sinnett The LandingWinner [21]
Jill Battson Hard CandyShortlist [22]
Damian Lopes Towards the Quest
Barbara Mulcahy The Man With the Dancing Monkey
Carmine Starnino The New World
1999 Stephanie Bolster White Stone: The Alice PoemsWinner [23]

2000s

YearPoetTitleResultRef.
2000 Shawna Lemay All the God-Sized FruitWinner [24]
Lynn Davies The Bridge That Carries the RoadShortlist [25]
David O'Meara Storm StillShortlist
Rachel Rose Giving My Body to ScienceShortlist
Terence Young The Island in WinterShortlist
2001 Anne Simpson Light Falls Through YouWinner [1]
2002 Aislinn Hunter Into the Early HoursWinner [26]
2003 Kathy Mac Nail Builders Plan for Strength and GrowthWinner [27]
Nancy Jo Cullen Science Fiction SaintShortlist [28]
Michael deBeyer Rural Night CatalogueShortlist
Sharron Proulx-Turner what the auntys sayShortlist
Christine Wiesenthal Instruments of SurrenderShortlist
2004 Adam Getty ReconciliationWinner [29]
Chris Banks BonfiresShortlist [30]
Jill Hartman A Painted ElephantShortlist
Alison Pick Question & AnswerShortlist
Ali RileyWaywardShortlist
2005 Ray Hsu AnthropyWinner [31]
Geoffrey CookPostscriptShortlist [32]
Susan Downe Little HorseShortlist
A. J. Levin Monk's FruitShortlist
Steve McOrmond Lean DaysShortlist
2006 Suzanne Buffam Past ImperfectWinner [33]
2007 Steven Price Anatomy of KeysWinner [34]
2008 Alex Boyd Making Bones WalkWinner [35]
Joshua Auerbach Radius of LightShortlist [36]
Alison Calder Wolf TreeShortlist
Dymphny Dronyk Contrary InfatuationsShortlist
Kim Goldberg Ride Backwards on DragonShortlist
Erin Knight The Sweet FuelsShortlist
2009 Katia Grubisic what if red ran outWinner [37]
Adam Chiles Evening LandShortlist [37]
Jeramy Dodds Crabwise to the HoundsShortlist
Kate Eichhorn FondShortlist
Sachiko Murakami The Invisibility ExhibitShortlist
Johanna Skibsrud Late Nights With Wild CowboysShortlist

2010s

YearPoetTitleResultRef.
2010 James Langer Gun DogsWinner
Kate Hall The Certainty DreamShortlist [38]
Marcus McCann Soft WhereShortlist
Soraya Peerbaye Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic NamesShortlist
Marguerite Pigeon InventoryShortlist
Robert Earl Stewart Something Burned Along the Southern BorderShortlist
2011 Anna Swanson The Nights AlsoWinner [39]
Susan Briscoe The Crow’s VowShortlist [40]
Karen Enns That Other BeautyShortlist
Jeff Latosik Tiny, Frantic, StrongerShortlist
Nikki Reimer [sic]Shortlist
Clea Roberts Here Is Where We DisembarkShortlist
2012 Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Sweet DevilryWinner [41]
Kirsty Elliot TrueShortlist [42]
Rosemary Griebel YesShortlist
Suzanne Robertson ParamitaShortlist
Lisa Shatzky Do Not Call Me By My NameShortlist
Leslie Vryenhoek GulfShortlist
2013 Gillian Savigny Notebook MWinner [43]
James Arthur Charms Against LightningShortlist [44]
Nora Gould I see my love more clearly from a distanceShortlist
Mathew Henderson The LeaseShortlist
Nyla Matuk Sumptuary LawsShortlist
Andrew McEwan RepeaterShortlist
2014 Murray Reiss The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the WildWinner [45]
Jordan Abel the place of scrapsShortlist [46]
Laurie D. Graham RoveShortlist
Julie Joosten Light LightShortlist
Emilia Nielsen Surge NarrowsShortlist
Juleta Severson-Baker IncarnateShortlist
2015 Kayla Czaga For Your Safety Please Hold OnWinner [47]
Sylvia D. Hamilton And I Alone Escaped to Tell YouShortlist [48]
Stevie Howell SharpsShortlist
Kerry Lee Powell InheritanceShortlist
Suzannah Showler Failure to ThriveShortlist
Anne-Marie Turza The QuietShortlist
2016 Ben Ladouceur OtterWinner [49]
Melissa Bull RueShortlist [50]
Chad CampbellLaws & LocksShortlist
Raoul Fernandes Transmitter and ReceiverShortlist
Cassidy McFadzean Hacker PackerShortlist
Derek WebsterMockingbirdShortlist
2017 Ingrid Ruthig This BeingWinner [51]
Christopher Gudgeon Assdeep in WonderShortlist [52]
Jennifer Houle The Back ChannelsShortlist
John NymanPlayersShortlist
Margo Wheaton The Unlit Path Behind the HouseShortlist
Banoo Zan Songs of ExileShortlist
2018 Emily Nilsen OtolithWinner [53]
Billy-Ray Belcourt This Wound is a WorldShortlist [54]
Jack DavisFaunicsShortlist
Wendy Donawa Thin Air of the KnowableShortlist
Julie Paul The Rules of the KingdomShortlist
Phoebe Wang Admission RequirementsShortlist
2019 Tess Liem Obits.Winner [55]
Tanis Franco QuarryShortlist [56]
Mikko Harvey Unstable Neighbourhood RabbitShortlist
Jenny Haysom Dividing the WaysideShortlist
Klara du Plessis EkkeShortlist
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Port of BeingShortlist

2020s

YearPoetTitleResultRef.
2020 Heather Birrell Float and ScurryWinner [57]
Laura Cok Doubter's HymnalShortlist [58]
Paola Ferrante What to Wear While Surviving a Lion AttackShortlist
Thomas King 77 Fragments of a Familiar RuinShortlist
Alessandra Naccarato Re-Origin of SpeciesShortlist
Matthew Walshthese are not the potatoes of my youthShortlist
2021 Bertrand Bickersteth The Response of WeedsWinner [59]
Jillian Christmas the gospel of breakingShortlist [60]
Valerie Mason-John I Am Still Your NegroShortlist
Bahar Orang Where Things TouchShortlist
Tyler Pennock BonesShortlist
Natasha Ramoutar BittersweetShortlist
2022 Alisha Kaplan Qorbanot: OfferingsWinner [61]
Selina Boan Undoing HoursShortlist [62]
David Bradford Dream of No One but Myself
Dallas Hunt Creeland
Matsuki Masutani I will be more myself in the next world
Tom Prime Mouthfuls of Space
Bardia Sinaee Intruder
2023
Matthew James Weigel Whitemud WalkingWinner [63]
Manahil Bandukwala MonumentShortlist [64]
Skylar Kay Transcribing Moonlight
Anne Marie Todkill Orion Sweeping
Délani Valin Shapeshifters
Sanna Wani My Grief, the Sun

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