news | Wednesday May 27, 2026

Three Talonbooks Authors on League of Canadian Poets Book Awards Shortlists!

Three Talonbooks titles are on the League of Canadian Poets Book Award shortlists!

Cecily Nicholson’s latest work of poetry Crowd Source is shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award! Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk.

Revolutions, the debut collection by Toronto-based poet Hajer Mirwali is on the Gerald Lampert Award shortlist! In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s kinetic sculpture + and –, Revolutions looks at how young Arab women make and unmake their identities.

Finally, the 2025 Governor General’s Award for Translation winning–book Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award! The poems in this collection move between the nomadic ways of Bacon’s Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan and the clamour of the city, keyed in to minute and vibrant details.

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.

A massive kudos to Cecily, Hajer, Joséphine, and Jessica for this outstanding achievement! Check out all of this year’s shortlisted authors here. And be sure to tune in online to hear readings from the shortlisted authors including Nicholson, Mirwali, and Moore on June 2 at 8 p.m. EDT. For more details and to register, click here.