Gerald Lampert 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

1980s

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

Year Poet Title Result Ref.
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

Year Poet Title Result Ref.
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

Year Poet Title Result Ref.
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 T. 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

Year Poet Title Result Ref.
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]
D. M. 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
2024 Hannah Green Xanax Cowboy Winner [65]
Britta Badour Wires That Sputter Shortlist [66]
Brandi Bird The All + Flesh
Maggie Burton Chores
Laila Malik Archipelago
A. Light Zachary More Sure
2025 Marc Perez Dayo Winner [67]
Faith Arkorful The Seventh Town of Ghosts Shortlist [68]
Ellen Chang-Richardson Blood Belies
Nathanael Jones Aqueous
Barbara Tran Precedented Parroting
Chimwemwe Undi Scientific Marvel

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