The League of Canadian Poets has announced three longlists for their 2019 Book Awards. The non-profit organization, which advocates on behalf of Canadian poetry, has announced the contenders for three awards: the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, for a debut book of poetry; the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman; and the Raymond Souster Award, for a book of poetry by a League of Canadian Poets member.

The winners in these categories as well as the 2019 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Spoken Word will be announced in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on June 8. The winner of each award will receive $2,000.

2019 Gerald Lampert Memorial longlist
•    Ritual Lights, Joelle Barron (Goose Lane Editions)
•    Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe (McGill Queen’s University Press)
•    Ekke, Klara du Plessis (Palimpsest Press)
•    Quarry, Tanis Franco (University of Calgary Press)
•    Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit, Mikko Harvey (House of Anansi Press)
•    Dividing the Wayside, Jenny Haysom (Palimpsest Press)
•    Obits., Tess Liem (Coach House Books)
•    No Meeting Without Body, Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press)
•    We Like Feelings. We Are Serious., Julie McIsaac (Wolsak & Wynn)
•    Port of Being, Shazia Hafiz Ramji (Invisible Publishing)
•    East and West, Laura Ritland (Véhicule Press)
•    Night Became Years, Jason Stefanik (Coach House Books)

2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award longlist
•    Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway (Book*hug)
•    The Blue Clerk, Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart)
•    Mrs. Romanov, Lori Cayer (The Porcupine’s Quill)
•    Listen Before Transmit, Dani Couture (Wolsak & Wynn)
•    Ekke, Klara du Plessis (Palimpsest Press)
•    I left nothing inside on purpose, Stevie Howell (McClelland & Stewart)
•    Obits., Tess Liem (Coach House Books)
•    Body Work, Emilia Nielsen (Signature Editions)
•    Port of Being, Shazia Hafiz Ramji (Invisible Publishing)
•    East and West, Laura Ritland (Véhicule Press)
•    Reunion, Deanna Young (Brick Books)
•    The Missing Field, Jennifer Zilm (Guernica Editions)

2019 Raymond Souster Award longlist
•    Correspondent, Dominique Bernier-Cormier (Goose Lane Editions)
•    How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck (Brick Books)
•    Mrs. Romanov, Lori Cayer (The Porcupine’s Quill)
•    God of Shadows, Lorna Crozier (McClelland & Stewart)
•    Anatomic, Adam Dickinson (Coach House Books)
•    Trauma Head, Elee Kraljii Gardiner (Anvil Press)
•    No Line in Time, Sonja Ruth Greckol (Tightrope Books)
•    I left nothing inside on purpose, Stevie Howell (McClelland & Stewart)
•    Welcome to the Anthropocene, Alice Major (University of Alberta Press)
•    Tar Swan, David Martin (NeWest Press)
•    Rooster, Dog, Crow, Jim Nason (Frontenac House)
•    Ledi, Kim Trainor (Book*hug)