Great Reads for National Poetry Month

The League of Canadian Poets just announced the finalists for their 2017 Poetry Awards.  Celebrate National Poetry Month and read a poem from one of the shortlisted poets!

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian

• Assdeep in Wonder by Christopher Gudgeon
• The Back Channels by Jennifer Houle
• Players by John Nyman
• This Being by Ingrid Ruthig
• The Unlit Path Behind the House by Margo Wheaton
• Songs of Exile by Bänoo Zan

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman

• 100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek
• Float by Anne Carson
• Lady Crawford by Julie Cameron Gray
• Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver
• Heaven's Thieves by Sue Sinclair
• The Description of the World by Johanna Skibsrud

The Raymond Souster Award
Given for a book of poetry by a League of Canadian Poets member [all levels]

• Disturbing the Buddha by Barry Dempster
• silent sister: the mastectomy poems by Beth Everest
• Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
• Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe
• The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
• Après Satie - For Two and Four Hands by Dean Steadman