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Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Anthony Lawrence left school at 16, and has worked variously as a jackeroo, fisherman, teacher and writer. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize. His most recent collection is Bark (University of Queensland Press).

Poetry

• Bark, University of Queensland Press, 2008.
• Strategies for Confronting Fear : New and Selected Poems Lancashire, England : Arc Publications, 2006.
• The Sleep of a Learning Man Giramondo Publishing, 2003.
• Skinned by Light : Poems 1989 - 2002 University of Queensland Press, 2002.
• New and Selected Poems University of Queensland Press, 1998.
• The Viewfinder University of Queensland Press, 1996.
• Cold Wires of Rain Penguin Books, 1995.
• The Darkwood Aquarium Penguin Books, 1993.
• Three Days Out of Tidal Town Hale and Iremonger, 1992.
• Dreaming in Stone Angus and Robertson, 1989.

Fiction

• In the Half-Light Picador, 2000.