The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

In its earliest years, the award was not necessarily limited to poetry, but was presented to the year's best first book by a Canadian writer in either poetry or prose.

Winners and nominees

1980s

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|Night Travellers

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!1985

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|Celestial Navigation

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!1986

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|Raspberry Vinegar

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!1987

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! rowspan="3" |1988

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|Questions I Asked My Mother

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|If Summer Had a Knife

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| Future Rivers

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!1989

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|Journey to Yalta

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1990s

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!rowspan=5| 1990

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|Stalin's Carnival

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|Maria Breaks Her Silence

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|The Open Room

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|Batoche

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|Cold Rubber Feet

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|Radiant Life Forms

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|Impromptu Feats of Balance

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|Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude

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!1992

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|Wiles of Girlhood

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!rowspan=2|1993

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|Fortress of Chairs

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|Eyes Like Pigeons

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!rowspan=2|1994

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|Mad Magellan's Tale

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!1995

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|Dementia Americana

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!rowspan=5| 1996

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|Rough Skin

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| Asphalt Cigar

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| Carrying Place

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| A Thousand Homes

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| Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry

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| Fear of the Ride

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| The Unhinging of Wings

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| Climate and the Affections

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| Clay Birds

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| Shadow Cabinet

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| God on His Haunches

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| Hard Candy

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| Towards the Quest

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| The Man With the Dancing Monkey

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| The New World

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!1999

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|White Stone: The Alice Poems

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2000s

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|All the God-Sized Fruit

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| Storm Still

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| Giving My Body to Science

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!2001

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|Light Falls Through You

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|Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth

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| Science Fiction Saint

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| Rural Night Catalogue

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| what the auntys say

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| Instruments of Surrender

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|Reconciliation

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| Bonfires

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| Question & Answer

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| Wayward

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|Anthropy

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| Postscript

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| Little Horse

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| Monk's Fruit

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| Lean Days

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!2006

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|Past Imperfect

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!2007

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|Anatomy of Keys

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! rowspan="6" |2008

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|Making Bones Walk

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| Radius of Light

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| Wolf Tree

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| Contrary Infatuations

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| Ride Backwards on Dragon

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! rowspan="6" |2009

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|what if red ran out

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| Evening Land

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| Soft Where

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| Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

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| Inventory

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| Something Burned Along the Southern Border

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| That Other Beauty

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| Tiny, Frantic, Stronger

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|[sic]

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| Here Is Where We Disembark

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! rowspan="6" |2012

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|Sweet Devilry

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| True

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| Yes

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| Paramita

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| Do Not Call Me By My Name

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| Gulf

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|Notebook M

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|Charms Against Lightning

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| I see my love more clearly from a distance

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| Sumptuary Laws

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| Repeater

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|Rove

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| Light Light

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| Surge Narrows

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| Incarnate

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|For Your Safety Please Hold On

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| And I Alone Escaped to Tell You

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| Sharps

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| Inheritance

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| Failure to Thrive

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|Otter

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| Rue

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| Laws & Locks

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| Transmitter and Receiver

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| Hacker Packer

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| Mockingbird

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|This Being

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| Assdeep in Wonder

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| Players

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| Songs of Exile

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|Otolith

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| This Wound is a World

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| Faunics

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| Thin Air of the Knowable

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| Admission Requirements

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|Obits.

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| Quarry

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| Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit

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| Dividing the Wayside

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| Ekke

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| Port of Being

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2020s

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|Float and Scurry

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| Doubter's Hymnal

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| What to Wear While Surviving a Lion Attack

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| 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin

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| Re-Origin of Species

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| these are not the potatoes of my youth

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| I Am Still Your Negro

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| Where Things Touch

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| Bones

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| Bittersweet

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|Qorbanot: Offerings

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| Undoing Hours

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| Dream of No One but Myself

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| Creeland

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| I will be more myself in the next world

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| Mouthfuls of Space

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| Intruder

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|Whitemud Walking

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|Monument

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|Transcribing Moonlight

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|Orion Sweeping

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|Shapeshifters

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|My Grief, the Sun

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! rowspan="6" |2024

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| Xanax Cowboy

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| Wires That Sputter

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| The All + Flesh

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| Chores

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| Archipelago

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| More Sure

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! rowspan="6" |2025

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| Dayo

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| The Seventh Town of Ghosts

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| Blood Belies

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| Aqueous

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| Precedented Parroting

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| Scientific Marvel

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References

  • League of Canadian Poets