# Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

## Winners and shortlists
### 1980s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 1981 | M. Travis Lane | Divinations and Short Poems 1973–1978 | Winner |
| 1982 | Rona Murray | Journey | Winner |
| 1983 | Rhea Tregebov | Remembering History | Winner |
| 1984 | Bronwen Wallace | Signs of the Former Tenant | Winner |
| 1985 | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | Winner |
| 1986 | Erín Moure | Domestic Fuel | Winner |
| 1987 | Heather Spears | How to Read Faces | Winner |
| 1987 | Jan Conn | The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Anne Michaels | The Weight of Oranges | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Afterworlds | Winner |
| 1988 | Gay Allison | The Unravelling | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Judith Fitzgerald | Diary of Desire | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Sharon Thesen | The Beginning of the Long Dash | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Bronwen Wallace | The Stubborn Particulars of Grace | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Heather Spears | The Word for Sand | Winner |
| 1989 | Joan Finnigan | The Watershed Collection | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Erín Moure | Furious | Shortlist |

### 1990s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 1990 | Patricia Young | The Mad and Beautiful Mothers | Winner |
| 1990 | Roo Borson | Intent, Or the Weight of the World | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Barbara Carey | The Year in Pictures | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Cathy Ford | Saffron, Rose & Flame | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Erín Moure | WSW (West South West) | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Jan Zwicky | The New Room | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Karen Connelly | The Small Words in My Body | Winner |
| 1991 | Dionne Brand | No Language Is Neutral | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Brewster | Spring Again | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Jan Conn | South of the Tudo Bem Cafe | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Kate Braid | Covering Rough Ground | Winner |
| 1993 | Lorna Crozier | Inventing the Hawk | Winner |
| 1994 | Diana Brebner | The Golden Lotus | Winner |
| 1995 | Beth Goobie | Scars of Light | Winner |
| 1996 | Lorna Crozier | Everything Arrives at the Light | Winner |
| 1996 | Margaret Atwood | Morning in the Burned House | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Di Brandt | Jerusalem, Beloved | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Anne Szumigalski | Voice | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Sharon Thesen | Aurora | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Sue Wheeler | Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Marilyn Bowering | Autobiography | Winner |
| 1997 | Roo Borson | Water Memory | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Meira Cook | Toward a Catalogue of Falling | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Lynn Crosbie | Pearl | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Barbara Nickel | The Gladys Elegies | Winner |
| 1998 | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | Shortlist |
| 1998 | April Bulmer | The Weight of Wings | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Heather Cadsby | A Tantrum of Synonyms | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Elisabeth Harvor | The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Barbara Mulcahy | The Man With the Dancing Monkey | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Linda Rogers | Heaven Cake | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Patricia Young | What I Remember From My Time on Earth | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Hilary Clark | More Light | Winner |

### 2000s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2000 | Esta Spalding | Lost August | Winner |
| 2000 | Susan Holbrook | Misled | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Helen Humphreys | Anthem | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Erín Moure | The Frame of the Book | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Rachel Rose | Giving My Body to Science | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Sharon Thesen | A Pair of Scissors | Winner |
| 2002 | Heather Spears | Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000 | Winner |
| 2003 | Dionne Brand | thirsty | Winner |
| 2004 | Betsy Struthers | Still | Winner |
| 2004 | Di Brandt | Now You Care | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Mary Dalton | Merrybegot | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen | Or | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Jeanette Lynes | Left Fields | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Erin Noteboom | Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | Winner |
| 2005 | Ronna Bloom | Public Works | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Aislinn Hunter | The Possible Past | Shortlist |
| 2005 | K. I. Press | Spine | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Sue Sinclair | The Drunken Lovely Bird | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Jan Zwicky | Robinson's Crossing | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Sylvia Legris | Nerve Squall | Winner |
| 2007 | Sina Queyras | Lemon Hound | Winner |
| 2008 | Anne Simpson | Quick | Winner |
| 2008 | Alison Calder | Wolf Tree | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Louise Bernice Halfe | The Crooked Good | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Nadine McInnis | Two Hemispheres | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Olive Senior | Shell | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Agnes Walsh | Going Around With Bachelors | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Alice Major | The Office Tower Tales | Winner |
| 2009 | Margaret Christakos | What Stirs | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Linda Frank | Kahlo: The World Split Open | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Daphne Marlatt | The Given | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Sue Sinclair | Breaker | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Heather Spears | I can still draw | Shortlist |

### 2010s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Karen Solie | Pigeon | Winner |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Bachinsky | God of Missed Connections | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Ronna Bloom | Permiso | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Sina Queyras | Expressway | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Damian Rogers | Paper Radio | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Laisha Rosnau | Lousy Explorers | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Evelyn Lau | Living Under Plastic | Winner |
| 2011 | Dionne Brand | Ossuaries | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Di Brandt | Walking to Mojácar | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Alice Major | Memory’s Daughter | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Pamela Porter | Cathedral | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Nela Rio | La luna, Tango, siempre la luna/ The Moon, Tango, Always the Moon | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Susan Goyette | outskirts | Winner |
| 2012 | Stephanie Bolster | A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Lorna Crozier | Small Mechanics | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Rosemary Griebel | Yes | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Amanda Jernigan | Groundwork | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Jan Zwicky | Forge | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Rachel Rose | Song and Spectacle | Winner |
| 2013 | Marilyn Bowering | Soul Mouth | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Julie Bruck | Monkey Ranch | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Lorna Crozier | The Book of Marvels | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Maureen Scott Harris | Slow Curve Out | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Evelyn Lau | A Grain of Rice | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Alexandra Oliver | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway | Winner |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Bachinsky | The Hottest Summer in Recorded History | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Anne Compton | Alongside | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Sadiqa de Meijer | Leaving Howe Island | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Micheline Maylor | Whirr and Click | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Status Update | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Sina Queyras | MxT | Winner |
| 2015 | Joanne Arnott | Halfling Spring: an internet romance | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jen Currin | School | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Judy Halebsky | Tree Line | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jude Neale | A Quiet Coming of Light | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Lisa Robertson | Cinema of the Present | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Lorna Crozier | The Wrong Cat | Winner |
| 2016 | Rosanna Deerchild | calling down the sky | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Adebe DeRango-Adem | Terra Incognita | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Maureen Hynes | The Poison Colour | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Rachel Rose | Marry & Burn | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Sarah Tolmie | Trio | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Sue Sinclair | Heaven's Thieves | Winner |
| 2017 | Juliane Okot Bitek | 100 Days | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Anne Carson | Float | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Julie Cameron Gray | Lady Crawford | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Alexandra Oliver | Let the Empire Down | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Johanna Skibsrud | The Description of the World | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Lesley Belleau | Indianland | Winner |
| 2018 | Mary di Michele | Bicycle Thieves | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Susan Elmslie | Museum of Kindness | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Beth Goobie | Breathing at Dusk | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Catherine Owen | Dear Ghost | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Phoebe Wang | Admission Requirements | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Klara du Plessis | Ekke | Winner |
| 2019 | Dani Couture | Listen Before Transmit | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Emilia Nielsen | Body Work | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Laura Ritland | East and West | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Deanna Young | Reunion | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jennifer Zilm | The Missing Field | Shortlist |

### 2020s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Chantal Gibson | How She Read | Winner |
| 2020 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Maureen Hynes | Sotto Voce | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Doyali Islam | heft | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Michelle Porter | Inquiries | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Karen Solie | The Caiplie Caves | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | Cluster | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Noor Naga | Washes, Prays | Winner |
| 2021 | Cicely Belle Blain | Burning Sugar | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Jody Chan | Sick | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Jillian Christmas | the gospel of breaking | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Kyla Jamieson | Body Count | Shortlist |
| 2021 | shalan joudry | Waking Ground | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Selina Boan | Undoing Hours | Winner |
| 2022 | Sheri Benning | Field Requiem | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Margaret Christakos | Dear Birch | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Leah Horlick | Moldovan Hotel | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Lillian Nećakov | Il Virus | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Rebecca Salazar | sulphurtongue | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Gillian Sze | Quiet Night Think | Winner |
| 2023 | Sylvia D. Hamilton | Tender | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Cecily Nicholson | Harrowings | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Juliane Okot Bitek | A Is for Acholi | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Lisa Robertson | Boat | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Sandra Ridley | Vixen | Winner |
| 2024 | Britta Badour | Wires That Sputter | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Eva H.D. | The Natural Hustle | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Laila Malik | Archipelago | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Kate Siklosi | Selvage | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Kai Cheng Thom | Falling Back in Love with Being Human | Shortlist |