The winners of the 2007Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced on Saturday, June 9, at a special awards banquet at the League’s annual AGM in Edmonton. Steven Price was the winner of the Lampert Award for his book Anatomy of Keys (Brick Books), and Sina Queyras won the Lowther Award for Lemon Hound (Coach House Books).

Lampert: a broken mirror, fallen leaf by Yvonne Blomer (Ekstasis Editions), In the Lights of a Midnight Plow by David Hickey (Biblioasis), Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry (Goose Lane Editions), Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price (Brick Books), Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists by a. rawlings (Coach House Books), Every Inadequate Name by Nick Thran (Insomniac Press)

Lowther: Inventory by Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart), Liar by Lynn Crosbie (House of Anansi), I, Nadja and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie (Brick Books), Types of Canadian Women by K.I. Press (Gaspereau Press), Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books), The Good Bacteria by Sharon Thesen (House of Anansi)

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The award carries a $1,000 prize.

by Sina Queyras

(Coach House Books)

Judges Comments: Lemon Hound is an important, boundary-pushing and beautifully executed literary and intertextual project whose freshness of language and form and rhythmic play with repetition and difference seeps

under the skin and into our realities. Queyras shows us some of the fascinating places poetry can inhabit between lyric and language.

Sina Queyras grew up in western Canada and has lived in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books. In 2007-2008 she will be writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary. Currently she teaches creative writing at Haverford College. Lemon Hound is an investigation of the not-so-still lives of contemporary women through the lens of Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf.

The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who took a particular interest in the work of new writers. The award recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the preceding year and carries a prize of $1,000.

by Steven Price

(Brick Books)

The Anatomy of Keys is an extended poem about the life of Harry Houdini. Like the work of the master illusionist, keys open secrets, which in turn reveal clues to other imaginings. The range of forms and hidden rhymes makes this a book to revisit again and again.

Steven Price was born and raised in Colwood, BC. His work has appeared in Canadian and American literary journals. He is one of the poets in Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Price graduated from the University of Virginia Writing Program, and currently teaches poetry and writing at the University of Victoria.

Congratulations to all the authors, and many thanks to the jurors for their hard work on this year’s awards!

Lowther Jury: Hilary Clark, Rachel Zolf, Marian Frances White

Lampert Jury: Heidi Greco, Brian Henderson, Alison Pick

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