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 Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (three times).^[1] His most recent collection is Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.

Published works

Poetry

• 101 Poems, Pitt Street Poetry, 2018
• Headwaters, Pitt Street Poetry, 2016
• Signal Flare, Puncher & Wattman,, 2013
• The Welfare of My Enemy, Puncher & Wattman.
• Bark, University of Queensland Press, 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, 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.
• Dreaming in Stone Angus and Robertson, 1989.

Fiction

• In the Half-Light Picador, Australia and UK, and Carroll & Graff, USA, 2000.

Awards

• Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, 2023: second prize^[2]
• Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2022: winner for 'In the Shadows of Our Heads'^[3]
• 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'^[4]
• Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2010: winner for 'Domestic Emergencies'
• The Age 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 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, 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
• 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

References