Anthony Lawrence (poet)
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Anthony Lawrence (born 1957 in Tamworth)[1] 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).[1] His 2016 collection, Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry), was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.[2]
Poetry
- Ordinary Time, with Audrey Molloy Pitt Street Poetry, 2022
- Ken, Gazebo Books, 2021
- 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.
As editor
- The Best Australian Poetry 2004 University of Queensland Press, 2004.[3]
