Judith Wright Calanthe Award Explained

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

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

Notes

Web site: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Department of the Premier and Cabinet . 2009-08-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090904234408/http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awards-and-recognition/literary-awards.aspx . 2009-09-04 .
Web site: 2024-09-06 . Queensland Literary Awards 2024 winners announced . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2024-08-01 . Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2023-09-07 . Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2023-08-02 . Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2022-09-09 . Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2022-08-04 . Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2021-09-10 . Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2021-08-05 . Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced . 2024-09-12 . Books+Publishing.
Web site: 2020-09-04. Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards. 2020-09-05. www.abc.net.au. en-AU.
Web site: 2020-08-05. Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced. 2020-08-06. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
Web site: Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced. 2020-11-13. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2020-03-11.
News: Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced Books+Publishing. 2018-10-23. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20181024035534/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/10/24/118112/queensland-literary-awards-2018-winners-announced/. 24 October 2018. en-AU. dmy-all.
Web site: 2008-08-18 . Ian Commins – The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards . 2022-12-12 . Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Web site: 2007-09-11 . Premier Beattie Announces Winning Words in Rich Literary Awards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203121039/http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=53981 . 2007-12-03 . 2022-12-12 . Queensland Government.