The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975.

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| Remembering History

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!1984

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| Signs of the Former Tenant

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!1986

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| Domestic Fuel

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| Diary of Desire

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1990s

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| Intent, Or the Weight of the World

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| The New Room

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| No Language Is Neutral

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| Spring Again

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!1992

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| Covering Rough Ground

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!1993

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| Inventing the Hawk

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!1995

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| Scars of Light

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| Everything Arrives at the Light

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| Morning in the Burned House

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| Jerusalem, Beloved

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| Voice

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| Autobiography

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| Water Memory

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| Pearl

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| Land to Light On

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| The Weight of Wings

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| A Tantrum of Synonyms

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| The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring

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| The Man With the Dancing Monkey

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| What I Remember From My Time on Earth

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| More Light

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| Lost August

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| Misled

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| Anthem

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| Giving My Body to Science

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| Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000

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| thirsty

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| Now You Care

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| Merrybegot

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| Left Fields

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| Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska

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| Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

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| Robinson's Crossing

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| Nerve Squall

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| Lemon Hound

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| Quick

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| Wolf Tree

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| Going Around With Bachelors

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| What Stirs

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| God of Missed Connections

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| Permiso

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| Living Under Plastic

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| Ossuaries

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| Walking to Mojácar

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| Memory’s Daughter

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| Cathedral

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| outskirts

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| Small Mechanics

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| Song and Spectacle

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| Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway

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| Alongside

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| MxT

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| Halfling Spring: an internet romance

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| calling down the sky

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| Terra Incognita

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| Heaven's Thieves

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| Lady Crawford

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| Indianland

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| Museum of Kindness

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| Ekke

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| Listen Before Transmit

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| Body Work

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| How She Read

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| Unmeaningable

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| Sotto Voce

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| Washes, Prays

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| Burning Sugar

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| Undoing Hours

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| Field Requiem

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| Dear Birch

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| Moldovan Hotel

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| Il Virus

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| Quiet Night Think

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| Tender

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| Shadow Blight

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| Harrowings

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| A Is for Acholi

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| Boat

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| Vixen

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| Wires That Sputter

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| The Natural Hustle

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| Archipelago

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| Falling Back in Love with Being Human

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| The Work

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| The Seventh Town of Ghosts

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| Heliotropia

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| Oh Witness Dey!

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| The Knot of My Tongue

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| Precedented Parroting

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See also

  • Canadian poetry
  • List of literary awards honoring women
  • List of poetry awards
  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • Gerald Lampert Award

References

  • League of Canadian Poets