news | Wednesday May 20, 2026

Four Talonbooks Titles on League of Canadian Poets Book Awards Longlists!

Talonbooks authors are represented on the longlists for the 2026 League of Canadian Poets Book Awards! Four of our 2025 titles appear on the various longlists. The League of Canadian Poets has three annual book awards: The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a debut collection of poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry written by a for a book of poetry by a woman and non-binary individuals who feel comfortable being recognized by a women’s prize, and the Raymond Souster Award for a book of poetry penned by a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Here’s the breakdown:

Cecily Nicholson’s 2025 crow-centred collection Crowd Source is on the longlist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Raymond Souster Award!

The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd, a poetry collection written in the imagined voice of Zulaykha (“the wife of Aziz” in the Qur’an and the Biblical “wife of Potiphar”), is on the longlist for the Raymond Souster Award!

Hajer Mirwali ’s debut collection Revolutions is on the Gerald Lampert Award longlist! Revolutions looks at shame, pleasure, and Muslim daughterhood.

Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore is on the longlist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award! This dual-language collection in Innu-aimun and English.

A huge congratulations to Cecily, Rahat, Hajer, Joséphine, and Jessica for this outstanding achievement! Check out all of this year’s commended authors here.