The annual Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize was awarded on June 13th to David W. McFadden for his work What's the Score?, published by LPG member Mansfield Press.

A follow-up to Be Calm, Honey, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award in 2008, What's the Score? features 99 provocative and inquisitive poems that display McFadden's deceptively plainspoken voice.

The League of Canadian Poets recently announced the winners of the 2013 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards, as well as the Raymond Souster Award, at their annual festival in Toronto.

Notebook M, written by Gillian Savigny and published by LPG member Insomniac Press, took home the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the previous year.

Inspired by Charles Darwin's Notebook M, Savigny brings together the techniques of poetry and science to imagine what scientific creativity might look like.

The nominees for the 2013 Trillium Book Awards were revealed on May 30th. The Ontario government created the award in 1987 as a way to recognize and spread awareness of the literary excellence among Ontario authors. The awards are open to books in any genre and there are awards for both French and English titles.

Congratulations to LPG members Coach House Books and Nightwood Editions on their nominations:

English Language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award

Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger, published by Coach House Books

English Language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry

The Lease by Mathew Henderson, published by Coach House Books