Poets Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley, and Bradley Peters have been named winners of the 2024 LCP Book Awards.

Each of the three awards, bestowed annually by the League of Canadian Poets, comes with a $2,000 prize.

Green was named the winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize for her debut collection, Xanax Cowboy (House of Anansi Press). In their citation, the jury called Xanax Cowboy “a striving and cohesive debut book unlike any other.”

Ridley won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award (for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman) for Vixen (Book*hug Press). In their citation, the jury called the book-length poem “a brilliant, tightly woven text that explores the parallel devastation wrought by the fox hunt, intimate partner violence, and environmental collapse.”

Peters was named the winner of the Raymond Souster Award (for the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet) for his collection Sonnets from a Cell (Brick Books). Noting that Peters “distills liberation from his experience of incarceration through the confines of the sonnet form,” the jury called his work “technically refined poems [that] upend notions of who is ‘free’ and who is ‘protected.'”

The winners were chosen from shortlists announced last month.