Time Machine
Anthony Lawrence
“Replete with delightfully original imagery, Lawrence’s poetry feels at once fresh and familiar, as if an old friend were spinning a yarn that you had not heard before.”
– Alison Clifton, Stylus Lit
Anthony Lawrence
Anthony is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. He 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).
His collection Time Machine was published by Calanthe press in 2019. Recent collections are 101 Poems (Pitt Street Poetry, 2018) and Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.
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 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'
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'