Gerald Lampert Award

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually 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.^[1] Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

Winners and nominees[]

Year	Winner	Nominated
1981	, The Shored Up House
1982	Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
1983	Diana Hartog, Matinee Light
1984	Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers , Gone to Grass
1985	Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
1986	, Raspberry Vinegar
1987	Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
1988	Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother	, If Summer Had a Knife[2] , Future Rivers[2]
1989	Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
1990	Steven Heighton, Stalin's Carnival
1991	Diana Brebner, Radiant Life Forms	, The Story of Pears[3] Michael Redhill, Impromptu Feats of Balance[3] , Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude[3]
1992	Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood
1993	Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons
1994	Barbara Klar, The Night You Called Me a Shadow , Mad Magellan's Tale
1995	Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
1996	Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
1997	Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl
1998	Mark Sinnett, The Landing
1999	Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
2000	, All the God-Sized Fruit	Lynn Davies, The Bridge That Carries the Road[4] David O'Meara, Storm Still[4] Rachel Rose, Giving My Body to Science[4] Terence Young, The Island in Winter[4]
2001	Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
2002	Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
2003	Kathy Mac, Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth	Nancy Jo Cullen, Science Fiction Saint , Rural Night Catalogue Sharron Proulx-Turner, what the auntys say , Instruments of Surrender
2004	, Reconciliation[5]	Chris Banks, Bonfires[6] Jill Hartman, A Painted Elephant[6] Alison Pick, Question & Answer[6] , Wayward[6]
2005	Ray Hsu, Anthropy	, Postscript[7] , Little Horse[7] , Monk's Fruit[7] Steve McOrmond, Lean Days[7]
2006	Suzanne Buffam, Past Imperfect[8]
2007	Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
2008	Alex Boyd, Making Bones Walk[9]	, Radius of Light[10] Alison Calder, Wolf Tree[10] , Contrary Infatuations[10] Kim Goldberg, Ride Backwards on Dragon[10] , The Sweet Fuels[10]
2009	Katia Grubisic, what if red ran out[11]	, Evening Land[11] Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds[11] , Fond[11] Sachiko Murakami, The Invisibility Exhibit[11] Johanna Skibsrud, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys[11]
2010	, Gun Dogs[12]	, The Certainty Dream[12] , Soft Where[12] Soraya Peerbaye, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names[12] , Inventory[12] , Something Burned Along the Southern Border[12]
2011	Anna Swanson, The Nights Also	, The Crow’s Vow[13] Karen Enns, That Other Beauty[13] , Tiny, Frantic, Stronger[13] , [sic][13] , Here Is Where We Disembark[13]
2012	, Sweet Devilry	, True[14] , Yes[14] , Paramita[14] , Do Not Call Me By My Name[14] , Gulf[14]
2013	, Notebook M	James Arthur, Charms Against Lightning[15] Nora Gould, I see my love more clearly from a distance[15] , The Lease[15] , Sumptuary Laws[15] , Repeater[15]
2014	, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild	Jordan Abel, the place of scraps[16] , Rove[16] Julie Joosten, Light Light[16] Emilia Nielsen, Surge Narrows[16] , Incarnate[16]
2015	Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On	, And I Alone Escaped to Tell You[17] Stevie Howell, Sharps[17] Kerry Lee Powell, Inheritance[17] , Failure to Thrive[17] , The Quiet[17]
2016	Ben Ladouceur, Otter	, Rue , Laws & Locks Raoul Fernandes, Transmitter and Receiver , Hacker Packer , Mockingbird
2017	, This Being[18]	Christopher Gudgeon, Assdeep in Wonder[19] , The Back Channels[19] , Players[19] , The Unlit Path Behind the House[19] , Songs of Exile[19]
2018	, Otolith[20]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World , Faunics , Thin Air of the Knowable , The Rules of the Kingdom , Admission Requirements
2019	Tess Liem, Obits.[21]	Klara du Plessis, Ekke , Quarry , Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit , Dividing the Wayside , Port of Being
2020	, Float and Scurry[22]	, Doubter's Hymnal , What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack Thomas King, 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin , Re-Origin of Species , these are not the potatoes of my youth
2021	Bertrand Bickersteth, The Response of Weeds[23]	Jillian Christmas, the gospel of breaking Valerie Mason-John, I Am Still Your Negro , Where Things Touch , Bones , Bittersweet

References[]

External links[]

• League of Canadian Poets