Gerald Lampert Award

Canadian poetry award

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.

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

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### 1980s

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Gerald Lampert Award winners and nominees  Year  | Poet  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1981 | Elizabeth Allan | The Shored Up House | Winner |
1982 | Edna Alford | A Sleep Full of Dreams | Winner | [2]
Abraham Boyarsky | Schielber | Winner
1983 | Diana Hartog | Matinee Light | Winner |
1984 | Jean McKay | Gone to Grass | Winner | [3]
Sandra Birdsell | Night Travellers | Winner
1985 | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | Winner | [4]
1986 | Joan Fern Shaw | Raspberry Vinegar | Winner | [5]
1987 | Rosemary Sullivan | The Space a Name Makes | Winner | [6]
1988 | Di Brandt | Questions I Asked My Mother | Winner | [7]
Beverly Daurio | If Summer Had a Knife | Shortlist  | [8]
Janet Simpson-Cooke | Future Rivers
1989 | Sarah Klassen | Journey to Yalta | Winner | [9]

### 1990s

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Year  | Poet  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1990 | Steven Heighton | Stalin's Carnival | Winner | [10]
Nancy Mattson | Maria Breaks Her Silence | Shortlist  | [11]
Bruce Meyer | The Open Room
Kim Morrissey | Batoche
Bruce Taylor | Cold Rubber Feet
1991 | Diana Brebner | Radiant Life Forms | Winner | [12]
Lesley-Anne Bourne | The Story of Pears | Shortlist  | [13]
Michael Redhill | Impromptu Feats of Balance
Ronn Silverstein | Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude
1992 | Joanne Arnott | Wiles of Girlhood | Winner | [14]
1993 | Elisabeth Harvor | Fortress of Chairs | Winner | [15]
Roberta Rees | Eyes Like Pigeons | Winner
1994 | Barbara Klar | The Night You Called Me a Shadow | Winner | [16]
Ilya Tourtidis | Mad Magellan's Tale | Winner
1995 | Keith Maillard | Dementia Americana | Winner | [17]
1996 | Maureen Hynes | Rough Skin | Winner | [18]
Kevin Connolly | Asphalt Cigar | Shortlist  | [19]
Esta Spalding | Carrying Place
Terry Watada | A Thousand Homes
Sue Wheeler | Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry
1997 | Marilyn Dumont | A Really Good Brown Girl | Winner | [1]
Mike Barnes | Calm Jazz Sea | Shortlist  | [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 Landing | Winner | [21]
Jill Battson | Hard Candy | Shortlist  | [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 Poems | Winner | [23]

### 2000s

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Year  | Poet  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2000 | Shawna Lemay | All the God-Sized Fruit | Winner | [24]
Lynn Davies | The Bridge That Carries the Road | Shortlist  | [25]
David O'Meara | Storm Still | Shortlist
Rachel Rose | Giving My Body to Science | Shortlist
Terence Young | The Island in Winter | Shortlist
2001 | Anne Simpson | Light Falls Through You | Winner | [1]
2002 | Aislinn Hunter | Into the Early Hours | Winner | [26]
2003 | Kathy Mac | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth | Winner | [27]
Nancy Jo Cullen | Science Fiction Saint | Shortlist  | [28]
Michael deBeyer | Rural Night Catalogue | Shortlist
Sharron Proulx-Turner | what the auntys say | Shortlist
Christine Wiesenthal | Instruments of Surrender | Shortlist
2004 | Adam Getty | Reconciliation | Winner | [29]
Chris Banks | Bonfires | Shortlist  | [30]
Jill Hartman | A Painted Elephant | Shortlist
Alison Pick | Question & Answer | Shortlist
Ali Riley | Wayward | Shortlist
2005 | Ray Hsu | Anthropy | Winner | [31]
Geoffrey Cook | Postscript | Shortlist  | [32]
Susan Downe | Little Horse | Shortlist
A. J. Levin | Monk's Fruit | Shortlist
Steve McOrmond | Lean Days | Shortlist
2006 | Suzanne Buffam | Past Imperfect | Winner | [33]
2007 | Steven Price | Anatomy of Keys | Winner | [34]
2008 | Alex Boyd | Making Bones Walk | Winner | [35]
Joshua Auerbach | Radius of Light | Shortlist  | [36]
Alison Calder | Wolf Tree | Shortlist
Dymphny Dronyk | Contrary Infatuations | Shortlist
Kim Goldberg | Ride Backwards on Dragon | Shortlist
Erin Knight | The Sweet Fuels | Shortlist
2009 | Katia Grubisic | what if red ran out | Winner | [37]
Adam Chiles | Evening Land | Shortlist  | [37]
Jeramy Dodds | Crabwise to the Hounds | Shortlist
Kate Eichhorn | Fond | Shortlist
Sachiko Murakami | The Invisibility Exhibit | Shortlist
Johanna Skibsrud | Late Nights With Wild Cowboys | Shortlist

### 2010s

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Year  | Poet  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2010 | James Langer | Gun Dogs | Winner |
Kate Hall | The Certainty Dream | Shortlist  | [38]
Marcus McCann | Soft Where | Shortlist
Soraya Peerbaye | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names | Shortlist
Marguerite Pigeon | Inventory | Shortlist
Robert Earl Stewart | Something Burned Along the Southern Border | Shortlist
2011 | Anna Swanson | The Nights Also | Winner | [39]
Susan Briscoe | The Crow’s Vow | Shortlist  | [40]
Karen Enns | That Other Beauty | Shortlist
Jeff Latosik | Tiny, Frantic, Stronger | Shortlist
Nikki Reimer | [sic] | Shortlist
Clea Roberts | Here Is Where We Disembark | Shortlist
2012 | Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Sweet Devilry | Winner | [41]
Kirsty Elliot | True | Shortlist  | [42]
Rosemary Griebel | Yes | Shortlist
Suzanne Robertson | Paramita | Shortlist
Lisa Shatzky | Do Not Call Me By My Name | Shortlist
Leslie Vryenhoek | Gulf | Shortlist
2013 | Gillian Savigny | Notebook M | Winner | [43]
James Arthur | Charms Against Lightning | Shortlist  | [44]
Nora Gould | I see my love more clearly from a distance | Shortlist
Mathew Henderson | The Lease | Shortlist
Nyla Matuk | Sumptuary Laws | Shortlist
Andrew McEwan | Repeater | Shortlist
2014 | Murray Reiss | The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild | Winner | [45]
Jordan Abel | the place of scraps | Shortlist  | [46]
Laurie D. Graham | Rove | Shortlist
Julie Joosten | Light Light | Shortlist
Emilia Nielsen | Surge Narrows | Shortlist
Juleta Severson-Baker | Incarnate | Shortlist
2015 | Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | Winner | [47]
Sylvia D. Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You | Shortlist  | [48]
Stevie Howell | Sharps | Shortlist
Kerry Lee Powell | Inheritance | Shortlist
Suzannah Showler | Failure to Thrive | Shortlist
Anne-Marie Turza | The Quiet | Shortlist
2016 | Ben Ladouceur | Otter | Winner | [49]
Melissa Bull | Rue | Shortlist  | [50]
Chad Campbell | Laws & Locks | Shortlist
Raoul Fernandes | Transmitter and Receiver | Shortlist
Cassidy McFadzean | Hacker Packer | Shortlist
Derek Webster | Mockingbird | Shortlist
2017 | Ingrid Ruthig | This Being | Winner | [51]
Christopher Gudgeon | Assdeep in Wonder | Shortlist  | [52]
Jennifer Houle | The Back Channels | Shortlist
John Nyman | Players | Shortlist
Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House | Shortlist
Banoo Zan | Songs of Exile | Shortlist
2018 | Emily Nilsen | Otolith | Winner | [53]
Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound is a World | Shortlist  | [54]
Jack Davis | Faunics | Shortlist
Wendy Donawa | Thin Air of the Knowable | Shortlist
Julie Paul | The Rules of the Kingdom | Shortlist
Phoebe Wang | Admission Requirements | Shortlist
2019 | Tess Liem | Obits. | Winner | [55]
Tanis Franco | Quarry | Shortlist  | [56]
Mikko Harvey | Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit | Shortlist
Jenny Haysom | Dividing the Wayside | Shortlist
Klara du Plessis | Ekke | Shortlist
Shazia Hafiz Ramji | Port of Being | Shortlist

### 2020s

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2020 | Heather Birrell | Float and Scurry | Winner | [57]
Laura Cok | Doubter's Hymnal | Shortlist  | [58]
Paola Ferrante | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack | Shortlist
Thomas King | 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin | Shortlist
Alessandra Naccarato | Re-Origin of Species | Shortlist
Matthew Walsh | these are not the potatoes of my youth | Shortlist
2021 | Bertrand Bickersteth | The Response of Weeds | Winner | [59]
Jillian Christmas | the gospel of breaking | Shortlist  | [60]
Valerie Mason-John | I Am Still Your Negro | Shortlist
Bahar Orang | Where Things Touch | Shortlist
Tyler Pennock | Bones | Shortlist
Natasha Ramoutar | Bittersweet | Shortlist
2022 | Alisha Kaplan | Qorbanot: Offerings | Winner | [61]
Selina Boan | Undoing Hours | Shortlist  | [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 Walking | Winner | [63]
Manahil Bandukwala | Monument | Shortlist  | [64]
Skylar Kay | Transcribing Moonlight
Anne Marie Todkill | Orion Sweeping
Délani Valin | Shapeshifters
Sanna Wani | My Grief, the Sun

## References

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## External links

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* League of Canadian Poets

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Recipients of the Gerald Lampert Award

* Elizabeth Allan (1981)
* Edna Alford and Abraham Boyarsky (1982)
* Diana Hartog (1983)
* Jean McKay and Sandra Birdsell (1984)
* Paulette Jiles (1985)
* Joan Fern Shaw (1986)
* Rosemary Sullivan (1987)
* Di Brandt (1988)
* Sarah Klassen (1989)
* Steven Heighton (1990)
* Diana Brebner (1991)
* Joanne Arnott (1992)
* Elisabeth Harvor and Roberta Rees (1993)
* Barbara Klar and Ilya Tourtidis (1994)
* Keith Maillard (1995)
* Maureen Hynes (1996)
* Marilyn Dumont (1997)
* Mark Sinnett (1998)
* Stephanie Bolster (1999)
* Shawna Lemay (2000)
* Anne Simpson (2001)
* Aislinn Hunter (2002)
* Kathy Mac (2003)
* Adam Getty (2004)
* Ray Hsu (2005)
* Suzanne Buffam (2006)
* Steven Price (2007)
* Alex Boyd (2008)
* Katia Grubisic (2009)
* James Langer (2010)
* Anna Swanson (2011)
* Sarah Mi-Yei Tsiang (2012)
* Gillian Savigny (2013)
* Murray Reiss (2014)
* Kayla Czaga (2015)
* Ben Ladouceur (2016)
* Ingrid Ruthig (2017)
* Emily Nilsen (2018)
* Tess Liem (2019)
* Heather Birrell (2020)
* Bertrand Bickersteth (2021)
* Alisha Kaplan (2022)
* Matthew James Weigel (2023)

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