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League of Canadian Poets announces 2022 Book Awards longlists

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)