Pat Lowther Award

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The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honourarium 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