Gerald Lampert Award

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The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets. It goes 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.

Winners:

1981 Elizabeth Allan, The Shored Up House
1982 Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber and Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
1983 Diana Hartog, Matinee Light
1984 Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers and Jean McKay, Gone to Grass
1985 Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
1986 Joan Fern Shaw, Raspberry Vinegar
1987 Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes
1988 Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother
1989 Sarah Klassen, Journey to Yalta
1990 Steven Heighton, Stalin's Carnival
1991 Diana Brebner, Radiant Life Forms
1992 Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood
1993 Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs and Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons
1994 Barbara Klar, The Night You Called Me a Shadow and Illya Tourtidis, Mad Magellan's Tale
1995 Keith Maillard, Dementia Americana
1996 Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
1997 Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl
1998 Mark Sinnett, The Landing
1999 Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
2000 Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
2001 Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You