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LORNA CROZIER IS DOUBLE-WINNER AT 2016 LCP BOOK AWARDS
June 18, 2016.



We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2016 awards! On Saturday, June 18, at the Canadian Writers’ Summit in Toronto we were pleased to present the winners of our 2016 Raymond Souster Award, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards. We were also pleased to honour the winner of the 10th annual Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. Congratulations to Lorna Crozier, Ben Ladouceur, and RC Weslowski, our 2016 book award winners!

Lorna Crozier took center stage as the winner of two awards: the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry by a woman, and the Raymond Souster award, for a book of poetry by a League member. Jurors described her winning collection, The Wrong Cat, as “superbly realized lyrical poems,” “sly, sexy, irreverent and sad,” and “a book deeply nuanced in its exploration of the human condition.”

Ben Ladouceur is the newest poet to join the ranks of emerging writers honoured by the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Jurors called his debut collection, Otter, “relevant and finely honed” and “edgy with honesty and originality,” saying “this sort of bravery is rarely found in a first collection.”

We were also honoured to hear from RC Weslowski, winner of the 10th annual Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, a lifetime achievement award recognizing significant contributions to spoken word in Canada.

Congratulations to our 2016 winners! Find the 2016 shortlists here.

Our awards ceremony was also where we presented three awards for significant contribution to poetry in Canada: our honorary membership award, our life membership awards, and our Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Contribution Award. We are pleased to welcome Ben McNally, of the beloved Toronto bookstore Ben McNally Books, to the League as an honorary member thanks to his ongoing support of poetry and literature, and thrilled to grant Armand Garnet Ruffo life membership for his contributions to Canadian Poetry. Penn Kemp presented Bruce Rice with our Colleen Thibaudau Award, honoring and thanking him for his efforts in establishing the now-annual Poetry City Challenge, which reaches Mayors and councils in communities large and small across Canada.


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The Wrong Cat Lorna CrozierLORNA CROZIER: The Wrong Cat (McClelland & Stewart)

Winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Raymond Souster Award.

Pat Lowther Memorial Award jurors’ comments: “The Wrong Cat is a book deeply nuanced in its exploration of the human condition. It encompasses the political and the sensual as it is layered with vivid imagery and powerful metaphor that moves between the animal, human and spiritual world with a gentle ferocity. Crozier’s poetry is rooted in the intimate that pulls the heart into each line and holds it there. It is fresh and insightful too, not easily done for a writer who has given us such an abundance of extraordinary poems in her long and laudable career. A career that offers both a guide to writing poetry that holds the world together and how to hold the self together as the world unravels.”

2016 jury: Judith Neale, Vanessa Shields, and Joan Shillington.

Raymond Souster Award jurors’ comments: “These are superbly realized lyrical poems. They are sophisticated and technically graceful. The book is ‘sly, sexy, irreverent and sad’ with, always, a serious river of emotion running beneath it.”

2016 jury: Jenna Butler, Wendy Morton, and Charles Mountford.

Lorna Crozier is the award-winning author of fifteen previous books of poetry, including Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, and Whetstone. She is also the author of The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things and the memoir Small Beneath the Sky. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and she has received three honorary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian Literature. Born in Swift Current, she now lives in British Columbia.



Otter Ben LadoucerBEN LADOUCER: Otter (Coach House Books)

Winner of the 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Jurors’ comments: “Otter’s relevant and finely honed skill shows exceptional attention and craft. His voice is edgy with honesty and originality. Elegies for things lost and weighted infuse the book with a tone of sorrowful yearning. Friends, lovers, and family are portraited with linguistic and syntactical care, such as in “I Am In Love With Your Brother,” or “Armadillo.” Ladoucer’s gritty perspective allows access to the world of a . man, his loves, lusts, and fears laid bare with raw clarity and unabashed eroticism. This sort of bravery is rarely found in a first collection.”

2016 jury: Jim Johnstone, Micheline Maylor, and Dwayne Morgan.

Ben Ladouceur is a writer living in Ottawa. His first collection of poems, Otter (Coach House Books), was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post. Ben is also the prose editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.



ABOUT THE AWARDS

Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized author tours and took a particular interest in the work of new writers. The award recognizes a first book of poetry published by a Canadian writer in the preceding year.

Open to Canadian women, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. This prize is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975.

Open only to League members, the Raymond Souster Award was started in 2013 to honour Raymond Souster, an early founder of the League of Canadian Poets. The award is presented annually for a book of poetry published in the preceding year.

The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, an annual lifetime achievement award for spoken word, was created by Sheri-D Wilson—a pioneer of spoken word poetry in Canada—to honour a Canadian spoken word artist who has made a substantial contribution to the development of spoken word, through the originality and excellence of his or her own writing/performance works, and through involvement in—and contributions to—the expansion of the spoken word community. The $1,000 Golden Beret Award was first presented at the Calgary Spoken Word Festival in 2007.

Filed under: Community, Home page news
Tags: 2016 book awards, archives, awards, ben ladouceur, lorna crozier

from the League of Canadian Poets
http://poets.ca/2016/06/18/2016awardwinners/
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

LORNA CROZIER IS DOUBLE-WINNER AT 2016 LCP BOOK AWARDS
June 18, 2016.



We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2016 awards! On Saturday, June 18, at the Canadian Writers’ Summit in Toronto we were pleased to present the winners of our 2016 Raymond Souster Award, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards. We were also pleased to honour the winner of the 10th annual Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. Congratulations to Lorna Crozier, Ben Ladouceur, and RC Weslowski, our 2016 book award winners!

Lorna Crozier took center stage as the winner of two awards: the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry by a woman, and the Raymond Souster award, for a book of poetry by a League member. Jurors described her winning collection, The Wrong Cat, as “superbly realized lyrical poems,” “sly, sexy, irreverent and sad,” and “a book deeply nuanced in its exploration of the human condition.”

Ben Ladouceur is the newest poet to join the ranks of emerging writers honoured by the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Jurors called his debut collection, Otter, “relevant and finely honed” and “edgy with honesty and originality,” saying “this sort of bravery is rarely found in a first collection.”

We were also honoured to hear from RC Weslowski, winner of the 10th annual Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, a lifetime achievement award recognizing significant contributions to spoken word in Canada.

Congratulations to our 2016 winners! Find the 2016 shortlists here.

Our awards ceremony was also where we presented three awards for significant contribution to poetry in Canada: our honorary membership award, our life membership awards, and our Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Contribution Award. We are pleased to welcome Ben McNally, of the beloved Toronto bookstore Ben McNally Books, to the League as an honorary member thanks to his ongoing support of poetry and literature, and thrilled to grant Armand Garnet Ruffo life membership for his contributions to Canadian Poetry. Penn Kemp presented Bruce Rice with our Colleen Thibaudau Award, honoring and thanking him for his efforts in establishing the now-annual Poetry City Challenge, which reaches Mayors and councils in communities large and small across Canada.


—



The Wrong Cat Lorna CrozierLORNA CROZIER: The Wrong Cat (McClelland & Stewart)

Winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Raymond Souster Award.

Pat Lowther Memorial Award jurors’ comments: “The Wrong Cat is a book deeply nuanced in its exploration of the human condition. It encompasses the political and the sensual as it is layered with vivid imagery and powerful metaphor that moves between the animal, human and spiritual world with a gentle ferocity. Crozier’s poetry is rooted in the intimate that pulls the heart into each line and holds it there. It is fresh and insightful too, not easily done for a writer who has given us such an abundance of extraordinary poems in her long and laudable career. A career that offers both a guide to writing poetry that holds the world together and how to hold the self together as the world unravels.”

2016 jury: Judith Neale, Vanessa Shields, and Joan Shillington.

Raymond Souster Award jurors’ comments: “These are superbly realized lyrical poems. They are sophisticated and technically graceful. The book is ‘sly, sexy, irreverent and sad’ with, always, a serious river of emotion running beneath it.”

2016 jury: Jenna Butler, Wendy Morton, and Charles Mountford.

Lorna Crozier is the award-winning author of fifteen previous books of poetry, including Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, and Whetstone. She is also the author of The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things and the memoir Small Beneath the Sky. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and she has received three honorary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian Literature. Born in Swift Current, she now lives in British Columbia.



Otter Ben LadoucerBEN LADOUCER: Otter (Coach House Books)

Winner of the 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Jurors’ comments: “Otter’s relevant and finely honed skill shows exceptional attention and craft. His voice is edgy with honesty and originality. Elegies for things lost and weighted infuse the book with a tone of sorrowful yearning. Friends, lovers, and family are portraited with linguistic and syntactical care, such as in “I Am In Love With Your Brother,” or “Armadillo.” Ladoucer’s gritty perspective allows access to the world of a . man, his loves, lusts, and fears laid bare with raw clarity and unabashed eroticism. This sort of bravery is rarely found in a first collection.”

2016 jury: Jim Johnstone, Micheline Maylor, and Dwayne Morgan.

Ben Ladouceur is a writer living in Ottawa. His first collection of poems, Otter (Coach House Books), was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post. Ben is also the prose editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.



ABOUT THE AWARDS

Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized author tours and took a particular interest in the work of new writers. The award recognizes a first book of poetry published by a Canadian writer in the preceding year.

Open to Canadian women, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award has been awarded annually since 1981 for a book of poetry published in the preceding year. This prize is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975.

Open only to League members, the Raymond Souster Award was started in 2013 to honour Raymond Souster, an early founder of the League of Canadian Poets. The award is presented annually for a book of poetry published in the preceding year.

The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, an annual lifetime achievement award for spoken word, was created by Sheri-D Wilson—a pioneer of spoken word poetry in Canada—to honour a Canadian spoken word artist who has made a substantial contribution to the development of spoken word, through the originality and excellence of his or her own writing/performance works, and through involvement in—and contributions to—the expansion of the spoken word community. The $1,000 Golden Beret Award was first presented at the Calgary Spoken Word Festival in 2007.

Filed under: Community, Home page news
Tags: 2016 book awards, archives, awards, ben ladouceur, lorna crozier

from the League of Canadian Poets
http://poets.ca/2016/06/18/2016awardwinners/
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com