The League of Canadian Poets has announced the longlists for their annual book awards. The three awards each carry a $2,000 prize.

The shortlists will be announced later this month, with the winners to be announced on May 4.

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

• MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala (Brick Books)
• Pronounced/Workable by Canadace de Taeye (Mansfield Press)
• Surrender & Resistance by Katie Fewster-Yan (Gaspereau Press)
• Transcribing Moonlight by Skylar Kay (Frontenac House)
• Streams that Lead Somewhere by Fareh Malik (Mawenzi House)
• Allodynia by Nisa Malli (Palimpsest Press)
• Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (Birlinn)
• The Big Melt by Emily Riddle (Nightwood Editions)
• Orion Sweeping by Anne Marie Todkill (Brick Books)
• Shapeshifters by Délani Valin (Nightwood Editions)
• My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani (House of Anansi)
• Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel (Coach House Books)

Pat Lowther Memorial Award

• But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves by Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press)
• Tender by Sylvia D. Hamilton (Gaspereau Press)
• Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Fernwood Publishing)
• Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press)
• Allodynia by Nisa Malli (Palimpsest Press)
• HARROWINGS by Cecily Nicholson (TalonBooks)
• A Is for Acholi by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Boat by Lisa Robertson (Coach House Books)
• Quiet Night Think by Gillian Sze (ECW Press)
• From the Shoreline by Steffi Tad-y (Gordon Hill Press)
• My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani (House of Anansi)
• Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee (Arsenal Pulp)

Raymond Souster Award

• But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves by Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press)
• Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem (Book*hug Press)
• The Day-Breakers by Michael Fraser (Biblioasis)
• Shifting Baseline Syndrome by Aaron Kreuter (University of Regina Press)
• After Beowulf by Nicole Markotić (Coach House Books)
• How Beautiful People Are by Ayaz Pirani (Gordon Hill Press)
• Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (Birlinn)
• Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior (Carcanet Press)
• How to Hold a Pebble by Jaspreet Singh (NeWest Press)
• Grappling Hook by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (Palimpsest Press)
• The End Is in the Middle by Daniel Scott Tysdal (Goose Lane)
• Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel (Coach House Books)