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 1975. Each winner receives an honourarium of $1000.
Winners
1981 - M. Travis Lane, Divinations and Short Poems 1973-1978
A gifted poet whose work was inspired by her daily life, PatLowther came of age at a time when women artists needed a room of their own, yet rarely had their own desk.
PatLowther's Continent: Her Life and Work author Toby Brooks has woven together the many threads of PatLowther's life – her poetry, her activism, her children, her marriages, her love of nature, her struggles and her triumphs – into a colourful tapestry that both saddens and warms.
Toby Brooks is drawn to the poetry of PatLowther largely because Lowther was born in 1935 and Brooks in 1936 and they came of age in the same era.
PatLowther (July 29, 1935-September 24, 1975) was a Canadian poet.
Roy Lowther was convicted of her murder in June 1977.
Lowther's tragic death was also the inspiration for Carol Shields' 1987 novel Swann; the title of her A Stone Diary may also have inspired the title of Shields' The Stone Diaries.
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