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The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther who was murdered by her husband in 1977. Each winner receives an honourarium of $1000.
Winners:
- 1981 M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
- 1982 Rona Murray, Journey
- 1983 Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
- 1984 Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant
- 1985 Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
- 1986 Erin Mouré, Domestic Fuel
- 1987 Heather Spears, How to Read Faces
- 1988 Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
- 1989 Heather Spears, The Word for Sand
- 1990 Patricia Young, The Mad and Beautiful Mothers
- 1991 Karen Connelly, The Small Words in My Body
- 1992 Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground
- 1993 Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
- 1994 Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus
- 1995 Beth Goobie, Scars of Light
- 1996 Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
- 1997 Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
- 1998 Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies
- 1999 Hilary Clark, More Light
- 2000 Esta Spalding, Lost August
- 2001 Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
