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

The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on May 4. The shortlisted titles were chosen from the longlist announced earlier this month.

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Best new debut book of poetry)

• MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala (Brick Books)
• Transcribing Moonlight by Skylar Kay (Frontenac House)
• 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 (Best new book of poetry by a woman)

• Tender by Sylvia D. Hamilton (Gaspereau Press)
• Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau 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)

Raymond Souster Award (Best new book of poetry by a League member)

• Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem (Book*hug Press)
• Shifting Baseline Syndrome by Aaron Kreuter (University of Regina Press)
• Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (Birlinn)
• Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior (Carcanet Press)
• Grappling Hook by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (Palimpsest Press)
• Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel (Coach House Books)