The 2010 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards Shortlists

The League of Canadian Poets has announced the shortlists for the 2010 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards. The winners will be announced during a ceremony at the annual LCP Poetry Fest and Conference in Toronto that runs from June 11th to 13th.

The 2010 Gerald Lampert Award Shortlist:

Kate Hall for The Certainty Dream (Coach House Books)
James Langer for Gun Dogs (House of Anansi Press)
Marcus McCann for Soft Where (Chaudiere Books)
Soraya Mariam Peerbaye for Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Goose Lane Editions)
Marguerite Pigeon for Inventory (Anvil Press)
Robert Earl Stewart for Something Burned Along the Southern Border (Mansfield Press)

The 2010 Pat Lowther Award Shortlist:

Elizabeth Bachinsky for God of Missed Connections (Nightwood Editions)
Ronna Bloom for Permiso (Pedlar Press)
Sina Queyras for Expressway (Coach House Books)
Damian Rogers for Paper Radio (ECW Press, a misFit book)
Laisha Rosnau for Lousy Explorers (Nightwood Editions)
Karen Solie for Pigeon (House of Anansi Press)

For more information about the awards, please visit poets.ca