# 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. 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.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s

Gerald Lampert Award winners and nominees :
| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Allan | The Shored Up House | Winner |
| 1982 | Edna Alford | A Sleep Full of Dreams | Winner |
| 1982 | Abraham Boyarsky | Schielber | Winner |
| 1983 | Diana Hartog | Matinee Light | Winner |
| 1984 | Jean McKay | Gone to Grass | Winner |
| 1984 | Sandra Birdsell | Night Travellers | Winner |
| 1985 | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | Winner |
| 1986 | Joan Fern Shaw | Raspberry Vinegar | Winner |
| 1987 | Rosemary Sullivan | The Space a Name Makes | Winner |
| 1988 | Di Brandt | Questions I Asked My Mother | Winner |
| 1988 | Beverly Daurio | If Summer Had a Knife | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Janet Simpson-Cooke | Future Rivers | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Sarah Klassen | Journey to Yalta | Winner |

### 1990s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 1990 | Steven Heighton | Stalin's Carnival | Winner |
| 1990 | Nancy Mattson | Maria Breaks Her Silence | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Bruce Meyer | The Open Room | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Kim Morrissey | Batoche | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Bruce Taylor | Cold Rubber Feet | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Diana Brebner | Radiant Life Forms | Winner |
| 1991 | Lesley-Anne Bourne | The Story of Pears | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Michael Redhill | Impromptu Feats of Balance | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Ronn Silverstein | Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Joanne Arnott | Wiles of Girlhood | Winner |
| 1993 | Elisabeth Harvor | Fortress of Chairs | Winner |
| 1993 | Roberta Rees | Eyes Like Pigeons | Winner |
| 1994 | Barbara Klar | The Night You Called Me a Shadow | Winner |
| 1994 | Ilya Tourtidis | Mad Magellan's Tale | Winner |
| 1995 | Keith Maillard | Dementia Americana | Winner |
| 1996 | Maureen Hynes | Rough Skin | Winner |
| 1996 | Kevin Connolly | Asphalt Cigar | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Esta Spalding | Carrying Place | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Terry Watada | A Thousand Homes | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Sue Wheeler | Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Marilyn Dumont | A Really Good Brown Girl | Winner |
| 1997 | Mike Barnes | Calm Jazz Sea | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Ronna Bloom | Fear of the Ride | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Margo Button | The Unhinging of Wings | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Crispin Elsted | Climate and the Affections | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen | Clay Birds | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Richard Sanger | Shadow Cabinet | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Diane L. Tucker | God on His Haunches | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Mark Sinnett | The Landing | Winner |
| 1998 | Jill Battson | Hard Candy | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Damian Lopes | Towards the Quest | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Barbara Mulcahy | The Man With the Dancing Monkey | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Carmine Starnino | The New World | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Stephanie Bolster | White Stone: The Alice Poems | Winner |

### 2000s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2000 | Shawna Lemay | All the God-Sized Fruit | Winner |
| 2000 | Lynn Davies | The Bridge That Carries the Road | Shortlist |
| 2000 | David O'Meara | Storm Still | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Rachel Rose | Giving My Body to Science | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Terence Young | The Island in Winter | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Anne Simpson | Light Falls Through You | Winner |
| 2002 | Aislinn Hunter | Into the Early Hours | Winner |
| 2003 | Kathy Mac | Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth | Winner |
| 2003 | Nancy Jo Cullen | Science Fiction Saint | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Michael deBeyer | Rural Night Catalogue | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Sharron Proulx-Turner | what the auntys say | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Christine Wiesenthal | Instruments of Surrender | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Adam Getty | Reconciliation | Winner |
| 2004 | Chris Banks | Bonfires | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Jill Hartman | A Painted Elephant | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Alison Pick | Question & Answer | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Ali Riley | Wayward | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Ray Hsu | Anthropy | Winner |
| 2005 | Geoffrey Cook | Postscript | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Susan Downe | Little Horse | Shortlist |
| 2005 | A. J. Levin | Monk's Fruit | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Steve McOrmond | Lean Days | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Suzanne Buffam | Past Imperfect | Winner |
| 2007 | Steven Price | Anatomy of Keys | Winner |
| 2008 | Alex Boyd | Making Bones Walk | Winner |
| 2008 | Joshua Auerbach | Radius of Light | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Alison Calder | Wolf Tree | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Dymphny Dronyk | Contrary Infatuations | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Kim Goldberg | Ride Backwards on Dragon | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Erin Knight | The Sweet Fuels | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Katia Grubisic | what if red ran out | Winner |
| 2009 | Adam Chiles | Evening Land | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Jeramy Dodds | Crabwise to the Hounds | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Kate Eichhorn | Fond | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Sachiko Murakami | The Invisibility Exhibit | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Johanna Skibsrud | Late Nights With Wild Cowboys | Shortlist |

### 2010s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2010 | James Langer | Gun Dogs | Winner |
| 2010 | Kate Hall | The Certainty Dream | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Marcus McCann | Soft Where | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Soraya Peerbaye | Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Marguerite Pigeon | Inventory | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Robert Earl Stewart | Something Burned Along the Southern Border | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Anna Swanson | The Nights Also | Winner |
| 2011 | Susan Briscoe | The Crow’s Vow | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Karen Enns | That Other Beauty | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Jeff Latosik | Tiny, Frantic, Stronger | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Nikki Reimer | [sic] | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Clea Roberts | Here Is Where We Disembark | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Sweet Devilry | Winner |
| 2012 | Kirsty Elliot | True | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Rosemary Griebel | Yes | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Suzanne Robertson | Paramita | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Lisa Shatzky | Do Not Call Me By My Name | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Leslie Vryenhoek | Gulf | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Gillian Savigny | Notebook M | Winner |
| 2013 | James Arthur | Charms Against Lightning | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Nora Gould | I see my love more clearly from a distance | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Mathew Henderson | The Lease | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Nyla Matuk | Sumptuary Laws | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Andrew McEwan | Repeater | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Murray Reiss | The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild | Winner |
| 2014 | Jordan Abel | the place of scraps | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Laurie D. Graham | Rove | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Julie Joosten | Light Light | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Emilia Nielsen | Surge Narrows | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Juleta Severson-Baker | Incarnate | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Kayla Czaga | For Your Safety Please Hold On | Winner |
| 2015 | Sylvia D. Hamilton | And I Alone Escaped to Tell You | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Stevie Howell | Sharps | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Kerry Lee Powell | Inheritance | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Suzannah Showler | Failure to Thrive | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Anne-Marie Turza | The Quiet | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Ben Ladouceur | Otter | Winner |
| 2016 | Melissa Bull | Rue | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Chad Campbell | Laws & Locks | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Raoul Fernandes | Transmitter and Receiver | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Cassidy McFadzean | Hacker Packer | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Derek Webster | Mockingbird | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Ingrid Ruthig | This Being | Winner |
| 2017 | Christopher Gudgeon | Assdeep in Wonder | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Jennifer Houle | The Back Channels | Shortlist |
| 2017 | John Nyman | Players | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Margo Wheaton | The Unlit Path Behind the House | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Banoo Zan | Songs of Exile | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Emily Nilsen | Otolith | Winner |
| 2018 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | This Wound is a World | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Jack Davis | Faunics | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Wendy Donawa | Thin Air of the Knowable | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Julie Paul | The Rules of the Kingdom | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Phoebe Wang | Admission Requirements | Shortlist |
| 2019 | T. Liem | Obits. | Winner |
| 2019 | Tanis Franco | Quarry | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Mikko Harvey | Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jenny Haysom | Dividing the Wayside | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Klara du Plessis | Ekke | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Shazia Hafiz Ramji | Port of Being | Shortlist |

### 2020s

| Year | Poet | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Heather Birrell | Float and Scurry | Winner |
| 2020 | Laura Cok | Doubter's Hymnal | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Paola Ferrante | What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Thomas King | 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Alessandra Naccarato | Re-Origin of Species | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Matthew Walsh | these are not the potatoes of my youth | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Bertrand Bickersteth | The Response of Weeds | Winner |
| 2021 | Jillian Christmas | the gospel of breaking | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Valerie Mason-John | I Am Still Your Negro | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Bahar Orang | Where Things Touch | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Tyler Pennock | Bones | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Natasha Ramoutar | Bittersweet | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Alisha Kaplan | Qorbanot: Offerings | Winner |
| 2022 | Selina Boan | Undoing Hours | Shortlist |
| 2022 | D. M. Bradford | Dream of No One but Myself | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Dallas Hunt | Creeland | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Matsuki Masutani | I will be more myself in the next world | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Tom Prime | Mouthfuls of Space | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Bardia Sinaee | Intruder | Shortlist |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Matthew James Weigel | Whitemud Walking | Winner |
| 2023 | Manahil Bandukwala | Monument | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Skylar Kay | Transcribing Moonlight | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Anne Marie Todkill | Orion Sweeping | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Délani Valin | Shapeshifters | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Sanna Wani | My Grief, the Sun | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Hannah Green | Xanax Cowboy | Winner |
| 2024 | Britta Badour | Wires That Sputter | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Brandi Bird | The All + Flesh | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Maggie Burton | Chores | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Laila Malik | Archipelago | Shortlist |
| 2024 | A. Light Zachary | More Sure | Shortlist |