The League of Canadian Poets has announced the shortlists for this year’s book awards. The three awards each carry a prize of $2,000. The winners will be announced in May.

The shortlisted titles were chosen from longlists announced earlier this month.

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (for a debut book of poetry)

• Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)
• 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)
• Mouthfuls of Space by Tom Prime (Anvil Press)
• Intruder by Bardia Sinaee (House of Anansi Press)

Pat Lowther Memorial Award

• Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet Press)
• Undoing Hours by Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions)
• Dear Birch by Margaret Christakos (Palimpsest Press)
• Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick (Brick Books)
• Il Virus by Lillian Nećakov (Anvil Press)
• sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (McClelland & Stewart)

Raymond Souster Award

• The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press)
• The Lost Time Accidents by Síle Englert (Goose Lane Editions)
• 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)
• Broken Dawn Blessings by Adam Sol (ECW Press)
• Resurrection Fail by John Wall Barger (Spuyten Duyvil Press)