Judith Wright Calanthe Award

Australian poetry award

The Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award is awarded annually as part of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.[1]

Winners

2020

  • Winner: Pi O, Heide (Giramondo)[2]
  • Peter Boyle, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness (Vagabond Press)[3]
  • Stuart Cooke, Lyre (UWA Publishing)
  • Ellen van Neerven, Throat (UQP)
  • Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Books)

2019

  • Winner: Alison Whittaker, Blakwork (Magabala)[4]
  • Liam Ferney, Hot Take (Hunter)
  • Keri Glastonbury, Newcastle Sonnets (Giramondo)
  • Marjon Mossammaparast, That Sight (Cordite)
  • Omar Sakr, The Lost Arabs (UQP)

2018

  • Winner: Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry (Giramondo)[5]
  • Pam Brown, click here for what we do (Vagabond Press)
  • Bonny Cassidy, Chatelaine (Giramondo)
  • Oscar Schwartz, The Honeymoon Stage (Giramondo)
  • Bella Li, Lost Lake (Vagabond Press)

2017

  • Winner: Antigone Kefala, Fragments (Giramondo)
  • Jordie Albiston, Euclid's Dog (GloriaSMH Press)
  • Carmen Leigh Keates, Meteorites (Whitmore Press)
  • Cassie Lewis, The Blue Decodes (Grand Parade Poets)
  • Omar Sakr, These Wild Houses (Cordite Books)

2016

  • Winner: David Musgrave, Anatomy of Voice (GloriaSMH Press)
  • Joel Deane, Year of the Wasp (Hunter Publishers)
  • Liam Ferney, Content (Hunter Publishers)
  • Sarah Holland-Batt, The Hazards (University of Queensland Press)
  • Chloe Wilson, Not Fox Nor Axe (Hunter Publishers)

2015

  • Winner: Les Murray, Waiting For the Past (Black Inc)
  • Susan Bradley Smith, Beds For All Who Come (Five Islands Press)
  • David Brooks, Open House (University of Queensland Press)
  • Lucy Dougan, The Guardians (Giramondo)
  • Robert Adamson, Net Needle (Black Inc)

2014

  • Winner: David Malouf, Earth Hour (University of Queensland Press)
  • Liam Ferney, Boom (Grande Parade Publishing)
  • Rachael Briggs, Free Logic(University of Queensland Press)
  • Anthony Lawrence, Signal Flare
  • Judith Beveridge, Devadatta's Poems (Giramondo Publishing)

2012

  • Winner: Peter Rose, Crimson Crop (UWA Publishing)
  • Simon West, The Yellow Gum's Conversion
  • David McCooey, Outside
  • Anthony Lawrence, The Welfare of My Enemy "Of all the words for Missing, there's"
  • Rhyll McMaster, Late Night Shopping (Brandl & Schlesinger)

2009

  • Winner: Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
  • Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria (University of Queensland Press)
  • John Kinsella, The Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography (University of Queensland Press)
  • Bronwyn Lea, The Other Way Out (Giramondo)

2008

  • Winner: David Malouf, Typewriter Music (University of Queensland Press)[6]
  • Judith Bishop, Event (Salt Publishing)
  • Anthony Lawrence, Bark (University of Queensland Press)
  • Alan Wearne, The Australian Popular Songbook (Giramondo)

2007

2006

  • Professor John Kinsella, The New Arcadia

2005

2004

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Department of the Premier and Cabinet". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  2. ^ "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". www.abc.net.au. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  3. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  4. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  5. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced | Books+Publishing". Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Ian Commins – The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  7. ^ "Premier Beattie Announces Winning Words in Rich Literary Awards". Queensland Government. 2007-09-11. Archived from the original on 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2022-12-12.