Poets' Corner with Anthony Lawrence

Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades.

Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice.

Anthony Lawrence has published seventeen books of poems and novel. His most recent collection is ‘Ken’ (Life Before Man, 2021).

His books and individual poems have won many awards, including the Prime Ministers Literary Award for Poetry, The Kenneth Slessor Award,

The Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and the Blake Poetry Prize.

A new collection of prose poems ’The Side the Weather Does Not Love’ is to be published in 2021.

He teaches Creative Writing and Writing Poetry at Griffith University, and lives on Moreton Bay, Queensland.

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