Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. Lawrence has received a number of
Australia Council for the Arts
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Literature Board Grants, including a Fellowship, and has won many awards for his poetry, including the inaugural
Judith Wright Calanthe Award
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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
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, 2002.
* ''New and Selected Poems''
University of Queensland Press
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, 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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, 1989.''
Fiction
* ''In the Half-Light'' Picador, Australia and UK, and Carroll & Graff, USA, 2000.
Awards
*
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
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, 2022: winner for 'In the Shadows of Our Heads'
* Australian Prime Ministers Literary Award for Poetry 2017
*
Newcastle Poetry Prize
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2015.
* The
Philip Hodgins
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Medal. Awarded at the 2015 Mildura Writers Festival
*
Newcastle Poetry Prize
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2014. (jointly with Debi Hamilton)
* 6th
Blake Poetry Prize
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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
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, 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
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, 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
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Winners
2020
* Winner: Pi ...
, 1999: winner for ''New and Selected Poems''
* NSW Premier's Literary Awards,
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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