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Anthony Lawrence

アンソニー・ローレンス

Ansonī Rōrensu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1957
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
poet, novelist
Active Years
1989-2024
Nominations
The Age Book of the Year Award, Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize 2008 (shortlisted for Bark), Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry 2008 (shortlisted for Bark), The Age Book of the Year Award, poetry 2004 (shortlisted for The Sleep of a Learning Man)

Awards

Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry
2017
Work: Headwaters
Category: Poetry
Organization: Australian Government
Result: winner
Judith Wright Calanthe Award
1999
Work: New and Selected Poems
Category: Poetry
Organization: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
Newcastle Poetry Prize
2015
Category: Poetry
Result: winner
Newcastle Poetry Prize
2014
Category: Poetry
Result: winner
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2022
Work: In the Shadows of Our Heads
Category: Poetry
Result: winner
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2010
Work: Domestic Emergencies
Category: Poetry
Result: winner
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
1997
Work: The Viewfinder
Category: Poetry
Organization: NSW Government
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Headwaters

2016 Poetry

A collection of poems exploring nature and introspection.

natureintrospection

Bark

2008 Poetry

Poetry collection themed around bark.

natureimagery

The Sleep of a Learning Man

2003 Poetry

Poems about the sleep of a learning man.

learningdreams

In the Half-Light

2000 Fiction

A novel set in half-light.

light and shadow

Bibliography

  • Ordinary Time
  • Ken
  • 101 Poems
  • Headwaters
  • Signal Flare
  • The Welfare of My Enemy
  • Bark
  • The Sleep of a Learning Man
  • Skinned by Light
  • New and Selected Poems
  • In the Half-Light

Style & Themes

Literary Style
vivid imagerynatural description
Recurring Motifs
watertreeslight

Legacy

A leading contemporary Australian poet who has won numerous literary awards and is highly regarded in the field of poetry.