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
1977. 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
See also the Gerald Lampert Award