Longlists announced for 2026 LCP Book Awards

The League of Canadian Poets has announced the 36 titles longlisted for its three annual book awards. Each award carries a $2,000 prize.

Shortlists for the awards will be announced on May 27, with the winners to be named on June 3. An online reading of the shortlisted poets will be held on June 2.

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Best new debut book of poetry)

Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions)
Refugee Mouth by Sanita Fejzić (Frontenac House)
Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic (Anvil Press)
Abode by Jun-long Lee (Athabasca University Press)
i cut my tongue on a broken country by Kyo Lee (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Elegy for Opportunity by Natalie Lim (Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn)
In Your Nature by Estlin McPhee (Brick Books)
Gone Gone by Todd Meyers (Duke University Press)
Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali (Talonbooks)
Contraband Bodies by Jide Salawu (NeWest Press)
Nostos by Tracy Wai de Boer (Palimpsest Press)
Familial Hungers by Christine Wu (Brick Books)

Pat Lowther Memorial Award (Best new book of poetry by a woman)

Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore (Talonbooks)
Long Exposure by Stephanie Bolster Palimpsest Press
The Seated Woman by Clémence Dumas-Côté, translated by E.S. Taillon (House of Anansi Press)
How I Bend into More by Tea Gerbeza (Palimpsest Press)
The World After Rain: Anne’s Poem by Canisia Lubrin (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
Reckless by Andrea MacPherson (Book*hug Press)
Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson (Talonbooks)
antibody by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
Wellwater by Karen Solie (House of Anansi Press)
The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrations by April White (Brick Books)
An Orange, A Syllable by Gillian Sze (ECW Press)
procession by katherena vermette (House of Anansi Press)