footlights is on the 2021 longlist for Pat Lowther Award, for Canadian women poets. The award carries a $2000 prize, and is sponsored by the LCP.
See the rest of the dozen excellent books at the League site, or below. Some of these are my favourites of the year, including Burning Sugar, the Gospel of Breaking, & Sick.
Phil Hall’s Niagara & Government (Pedlar Press, 2020) is on the list for the Raymond Souster.
2021 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST
Open to Canadian women, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. This prize is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The award carries a $2000 prize, and is sponsored by the LCP.
Cicely Belle Blain – Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), Jody Chan – Sick (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Jillian Christmas – the gospel of breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), Afua Cooper – Black Matters (Roseway Publishing, 2020), Sadiqa de Meijer – The Outer Wards (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry, 2020), Jennifer Hosein – A Map of Rain Days (Guernica Editions, 2020), Kyla Jamieson – Body Count (Nightwood Editions, 2020), shalan joudry – Waking Ground (Gaspereau Press, 2020), Evelyn Lau – Pineapple Express (Anvil Press, 2020), Canisia Lubrin – The Dyzgraphxst (McClelland & Stewart, 2020), Noor Naga – Washes, Prays (McClelland & Stewart, 2020), Pearl Pirie – footlights (Radiant Press, 2020)
Thanks to the jurors for the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award: Puneet Dutt, Doyali Islam and Cassidy McFadzean
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Shortlists will be announced on April 15. The winning titles are announced May 6.