Anything the Landlord Touches

ISBN-13: 9780907562924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 84 str.

Emma Lew

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Poetry. 'Anything the landlord touches' was Emma Lew's second collection to be published in Australia, where it was published by Giramondo in 2002. The book won the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (the Victorian State Premier's award for poetry), and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award (the Queensland Premier's Prize for Poetry), two of the main literary prizes in the country, and was also short-listed for The Age award and the NSW and South Australian Premier's Literary Prizes. Her first collection, 'The Wild Reply' (Black Pepper Press, 1997) won The Age award.

Emma Lew is highly regarded amongst contemporary Australian poets for the dramatic intensity of her poems, which combine sudden shifts of voice and perspective with a heightened awareness of the moment. The historical range of her settings, the sense of risk and adventure felt by her characters, and the variety of her forms - from portrait to monologue to lyrical celebration - deepen and enrich the drama.This collection won the 2003 C.J. Dennis Award for Poetry, one of the Victorian Premiers literary awards, and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award (the Queensland Premiers Prize for Poetry), each amongst the leading literary prizes in Australia. Emma Lews first volume The Wild Reply won The Age Poetry Book of the Year Award in 1997.