Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants, including a Fellowship, and has won many awards for his poetry, including the inaugural
Judith Wright Calanthe Award
The Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award is awarded annually as part of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.
Winners
2020
* Winner: Pi ...
, the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (three times). His most recent collection is ''Headwaters'' ( Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.
University of Queensland Press
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, 2008.
* ''Words & Music'', Picaro Press, 2008.
* ''Magnetic Field'', Picaro Press, 2008.
* ''Strategies for Confronting Fear : New and Selected Poems'' Lancashire, England : Arc Publications, 2006.
* ''The Sleep of a Learning Man''
Giramondo Publishing
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University of Queensland Press
Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house.
Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...
, 2002.
* ''New and Selected Poems''
University of Queensland Press
Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house.
Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...
, 1998.
* ''The Viewfinder''
University of Queensland Press
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Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...
, 1996.
* ''Cold Wires of Rain''
Penguin Books
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Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Angus and Robertson, 1989.''
Fiction
* ''In the Half-Light'' Picador, Australia and UK, and Carroll & Graff, USA, 2000.
Awards
* Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2022: winner for 'In the Shadows of Our Heads'
* Australian Prime Ministers Literary Award for Poetry 2017
* Newcastle Poetry Prize 2015.
* The Philip Hodgins Medal. Awarded at the 2015 Mildura Writers Festival
* Newcastle Poetry Prize 2014. (jointly with Debi Hamilton)
* 6th Blake Poetry Prize 2013: winner for 'Appellations'
* Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2010: winner for 'Domestic Emergencies'
*
The Age
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Book of the Year Award, Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, 2008: shortlisted for ''Bark''
* Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2008: shortlisted for ''Bark''
* Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2007: shortlisted for 'Guidance and Knowledge' (Note: Prize known as the ABR Poetry Prize in 2007.)
* Tasmania Book Prizes, Tasmania Book Prize, 2005: shortlisted for ''The Sleep of a Learning Man''
*
The Age
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Book of the Year Award, poetry, 2004: shortlisted for ''The Sleep of a Learning Man''
* Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, 2004: shortlisted for ''The Sleep of a Learning Man''
*
Colin Roderick Award
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, 2002: shortlisted for ''Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 – 2002''
* Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize, 2001: winner for 'The Rain'
* Inaugural
Judith Wright Calanthe Award
The Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award is awarded annually as part of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.
Winners
2020
* Winner: Pi ...
, 1999: winner for ''New and Selected Poems''
* NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 1997: winner for ''The Viewfinder''
* Grace Perry Memorial Award, 1988: runner-up for 'Blood Oath'
External links
Austlit entry page Poetry Archive UK page Interview with Ralph Wessman in Famous Reporter Interview with Robbie Coburn in Rochford Street Review