Pat Lowther Award

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