The League of Canadian Poets has announced the longlists for their annual book awards. The three awards each carry a prize of $2,000. The shortlists will be announced later this month, with the winners announced in May.
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlist
- Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)
- Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry)
- Dream of No One but Myself by David Bradford (Brick Books)
- Creeland by Dallas Hunt (Nightwood Editions)
- Qorbanot: Offerings by Alisha Kaplan (SUNY)
- I will be more myself in the next world by Matsuki Masutani (Mother Tongue Publishing)
- Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi (Gordon Hill Press)
- The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba (Palimpsest Press)
- Mouthfuls of Space by Tom Prime (Anvil Press)
- Little Housewolf by Medrie Purdham (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry)
- sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart)
- Intruder by Bardia Sinaee (House of Anansi Press)
- Autowar by Assiyah Jamilla Touré (Brick Books)
Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist
- The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)
- Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet Press)
- Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)
- Dear Birch by Margaret Christakos (Palimpsest Press)
- Solstice 2020 by Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press)
- awâsis – kinky and dishevelled by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer (Brick Books)
- Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick (Brick Books)
- Il Virus by Lillian Nećakov (Anvil Press)
- A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (Wave Poetry)
- Oracule by Nicole Raziya Fong (Talonbooks)
- sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart)
- A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson (Frontenac House)
Raymond Souster Award Longlist
- The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)
- The Lost Time Accidents by Síle Englert (Goose Lane Editions)
- with/holding: Poems by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press)
- awâsis – kinky and dishevelled by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer (Brick Books)
- Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick (Brick Books)
- Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli by D.A. Lockhart (Frontenac House)
- The Bad Wife by Micheline Maylor (University of Alberta Press)
- Blue Suitcase by Jim Nason (Mansfield Press)
- The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba (Palimpsest Press)
- Broken Dawn Blessings by Adam Sol (ECW Press)
- A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson (Frontenac House)
- Resurrection Fail by John Wall Barger (Spuyten Duyvil Press)