Hajer Mirwali, Karen Solie, and Rebecca Salazar have been named the winners of the 2026 LCP Book Awards.

Each prize carries a $2,000 prize. The winning titles were selected from shortlists announced last week.

Mirwali won the Gerald Lampert Award for best new debut book of poetry for Revolutions (Talonbooks). The jury called Mirwali’s writing style “cutting edge and playful.”

“Reading Revolutions is like having a companion that provides a familiar, daring feeling of clarity all while positioned within severe and surveilled conditions,” the jury wrote. “There’s a secret life within these pages that beckons to be studied for its shimmering craft.”

Solie won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, granted annually to the best new book of poetry by a woman, for Wellwater (House of Anansi Press), another win for the collection that won a Governor General’s award last fall and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize earlier this year. In their citation, the jury called Wellwater “a flawless collection that not only recasts memories of growing up on her Saskatchewan farm but also reveals with candour and deep remorse humans’ impact on land, ecosystems, living spaces, water and other beings.”

Salazar’s antibody (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC) won the Raymond Souster Award. The collection, the jury wrote “cauterizes you in places you did not know needed healing. Ethereal, cinematic, and propulsive, Salazar’s is a many-winged poetics that endures and helps us endure—every turn a gasp, every reversed trope a hatchet cutting rotgut from precious earth-bodies, from an ever-expanding organism of queer-disabled-survivor rage.”