Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.

Life
Lawrence was born in Tamworth, New South Wales. He left school early, and has worked as a landscape gardener, fisherman, truck driver, and (after returning to school) a primary and secondary school teacher. His first book, Dreaming in Stone, was published in 1989.

Recognition
Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize.

In 2011 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland.

Awards

 * 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'

Published works
Poetry
 * 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, 2000.