Judith Wright Calanthe 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
[edit]2024
[edit]- Winner: L. K. Holt, Three Books (Vagabond)[2]
- Manisha Anjali, Naag Mountain (Giramondo)[3]
- Jarad Bruinstroop, Reliefs (UQP)
- Mitchell Welch, Vehicular Man (Rabbit Poetry)
- Petra White, That Galloping Horse (Shearsman Books)
2023
[edit]- Winner: Lionel Fogarty, Harvest Lingo (Giramondo)[4]
- Michael Farrell, Googlecholia (Giramondo)[5]
- Autumn Royal, The Drama Student (Giramondo)
- Simon Tedeschi, Fugitive (Upswell)
- Rae White, Exactly As I Am (UQP)
2022
[edit]- Winner: Pam Brown, Statis Shuffle (Hunter Publishers)[6]
- Eunice Andrada, TAKE CARE (Giramondo)[7]
- Dan Disney, accelerations & inertias (Vagabond)
- Gavin Yuan Gao, At the Altar of Touch (UQP)
- Ann Vickery, Bees Do Both: An antagonist's carepack (Vagabond)
2021
[edit]- Winner: Ouyang Yu, Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra Press)[8]
- Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear (UQP)[9]
- Benjamin Dodds, Airplane Baby Banana Blanket (Recent Work Press)
- Jaya Savige, Change Machine (UQP)
- Elfie Shiosaki, Homecoming (Magabala Books)
2020
[edit]- Winner: Pi O, Heide (Giramondo)[10]
- Peter Boyle, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness (Vagabond Press)[11]
- Stuart Cooke, Lyre (UWA Publishing)
- Ellen van Neerven, Throat (UQP)
- Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Books)
2019
[edit]- Winner: Alison Whittaker, Blakwork (Magabala)[12]
- Liam Ferney, Hot Take (Hunter)
- Keri Glastonbury, Newcastle Sonnets (Giramondo)
- Marjon Mossammaparast, That Sight (Cordite)
- Omar Sakr, The Lost Arabs (UQP)
2018
[edit]- Winner: Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry (Giramondo)[13]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Winner: David Malouf, Typewriter Music (University of Queensland Press)[14]
- Judith Bishop, Event (Salt Publishing)
- Anthony Lawrence, Bark (University of Queensland Press)
- Alan Wearne, The Australian Popular Songbook (Giramondo)
2007
[edit]- Dr Laurie Duggan, The Passenger (University of Queensland Press)[15]
2006
[edit]- Professor John Kinsella, The New Arcadia
2005
[edit]- Sarah Day, The Ship
2004
[edit]- Judith Beveridge, Wolf Notes
See also
[edit]- Judith Wright
- Australian literature
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Department of the Premier and Cabinet". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2024 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2024-09-06. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2024-08-01. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners". Books+Publishing. 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-09-10. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". www.abc.net.au. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced | Books+Publishing". Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Ian Commins – The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ "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.