Anthony Lawrence (born 1957 in Tamworth) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. He has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants, including a Fellowship. He has won many awards for his poetry, including the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (three times). His 2016 collection, Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry), was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.
Published works
Poetry Ordinary Time, with Audrey Molloy Pitt Street Poetry, 2022 Ken, Gazebo Books, 2021 Time Machine, Calanthe Press, 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 2018 Headwaters, Pitt Street Poetry, 2016 Signal Flare, Puncher & Wattman, 2013 The Welfare of My Enemy, Puncher & Wattman, 2011 Bark, University of Queensland Press, 2008 Words & Music, Picaro Press, 2008 Magnetic Field, Picaro Press, 2008 Strategies for Confronting Fear : New and Selected Poems, Arc Publications, 2006 The Sleep of a Learning Man, Giramondo Publishing, 2003 Skinned by Light : Poems 1989–2002, University of Queensland Press, 2002 New and Selected Poems, University of Queensland Press, 1998 The Viewfinder, University of Queensland Press, 1996 Cold Wires of Rain, Penguin Books, 1995 The Darkwood Aquarium, Penguin Books, 1993 Three Days Out of Tidal Town, Hale and Iremonger, 1992 Ultramarine, with John Kinsella, Folio, 1991 Dreaming in Stone, Angus and Robertson, 1989
Fiction In the Half-Light Picador, Australia and UK, and Carroll & Graff, USA, 2000
As editor The Best Australian Poetry 2004 University of Queensland Press, 2004.
Awards
Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, 2023: second prize Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2022: winner for "In the Shadows of Our Heads" Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, 2017: winner for Headwaters Newcastle Poetry Prize 2015 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 Book of the Year Awards, 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 Book of the Year Awards, 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, 2002: shortlisted for Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 – 2002 Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize, 2001: winner for "The Rain" Inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award, 1999: winner for New and Selected Poems NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 1997: winner for The Viewfinder The Age Book of the Year Award – Poetry, 1996: shortlisted for The Viewfinder Grace Perry Memorial Award, 1988: runner-up for "Blood Oath"
References
External links Anthony Lawrence at the Poetry Archive An Interview with Anthony Lawrence, Ralph Wessman in Famous Reporter Anthony Lawrence, Robbie Coburn in Rochford Street Review