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. The prize honours the work of Australian poet, Judith Wright.
Winners
2024
Winner: L. K. Holt, Three Books- Manisha Anjali, Naag Mountain
- Jarad Bruinstroop, Reliefs
- Mitchell Welch, Vehicular Man
- Petra White, ''That Galloping Horse''
2023
Winner: Lionel Fogarty, Harvest Lingo- Michael Farrell, Googlecholia
- Autumn Royal, The Drama Student
- Simon Tedeschi, Fugitive
- Rae White, ''Exactly As I Am''
2022
Winner: Pam Brown, Statis Shuffle- Eunice Andrada, TAKE CARE
- Dan Disney, accelerations & inertias
- Gavin Yuan Gao, At the Altar of Touch
- Ann Vickery, ''Bees Do Both: An antagonist's carepack''
2021
Winner: Ouyang Yu, Terminally Poetic- Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear
- Benjamin Dodds, Airplane Baby Banana Blanket
- Jaya Savige, Change Machine
- Elfie Shiosaki, ''Homecoming''
2020
Winner: Pi O, Heide- Peter Boyle, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness
- Stuart Cooke, Lyre
- Ellen van Neerven, Throat
- Charmaine Papertalk Green, ''Nganajungu Yagu''
2019
- Winner: Alison Whittaker, Blakwork
- Liam Ferney, Hot Take
- Keri Glastonbury, Newcastle Sonnets
- Marjon Mossammaparast, That Sight
- Omar Sakr, ''The Lost Arabs''
2018
- Winner: Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
- Pam Brown, click here for what we do
- Bonny Cassidy, Chatelaine
- Oscar Schwartz, The Honeymoon Stage
- Bella Li, ''Lost Lake''
2017
- Winner: Antigone Kefala, Fragments
- Jordie Albiston, Euclid's Dog
- Carmen Leigh Keates, Meteorites
- Cassie Lewis, The Blue Decodes
- Omar Sakr, ''These Wild Houses''
2016
- Winner: David Musgrave, Anatomy of Voice
- Joel Deane, Year of the Wasp
- Liam Ferney, Content
- Sarah Holland-Batt, The Hazards
- Chloe Wilson, ''Not Fox Nor Axe''
2015
- Winner: Les Murray, Waiting For the Past
- Susan Bradley Smith, Beds For All Who Come
- David Brooks, Open House
- Lucy Dougan, The Guardians
- Robert Adamson, ''Net Needle''
2014
- Winner: David Malouf, Earth Hour
- Liam Ferney, Boom
- Rachael Briggs, Free Logic
- Anthony Lawrence, Signal Flare
- Judith Beveridge, ''Devadatta's Poems''
2012
- Winner: Peter Rose, Crimson Crop
- 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''
2009
- Winner: Emma Jones, The Striped World
- Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria
- John Kinsella, The Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography
- Bronwyn Lea, ''The Other Way Out''
2008
Winner: David Malouf, Typewriter Music- Judith Bishop, Event
- Anthony Lawrence, Bark
- Alan Wearne, ''The Australian Popular Songbook''
2007
- Dr Laurie Duggan, ''The Passenger''
2006
- Professor John Kinsella, ''The New Arcadia''
2005
- Sarah Day, ''The Ship''
2004
- Judith Beveridge, ''Wolf Notes''