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] The prize honours the work of Australian poet, Judith Wright.

Winners

2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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) ^[14]
• Judith Bishop, Event (Salt Publishing)
• Anthony Lawrence, Bark (University of Queensland Press)
• Alan Wearne, The Australian Popular Songbook (Giramondo)

2007

• Dr Laurie Duggan, The Passenger (University of Queensland Press) ^[15]

2006

• Professor John Kinsella, The New Arcadia

2005

• Sarah Day, The Ship

2004

• Judith Beveridge, Wolf Notes

See also

• Judith Wright
• Australian literature
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

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.
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3. "Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2024-08-01. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
4. "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
5. "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
6. "Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners". Books+Publishing. 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
7. "Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
8. "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-09-10. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
9. "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
10. "Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". www.abc.net.au. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
11. "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
12. "Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
13. "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced | Books+Publishing". Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
14. "Ian Commins – The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
15. "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.