“I trust my imagination and love of language to get me there”

Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. Lawrence 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).^[1] His most recent collection is Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2017.