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
2025
Winner: Mia Thom, Go Raging Linda Judge, Cooking Lessons Isabella G Mean, On the Future Distribution of Fruit Bats
2024
Winner: L. K. Holt, Three Books (Vagabond) Manisha Anjali, Naag Mountain (Giramondo) Jarad Bruinstroop, Reliefs (UQP) Mitchell Welch, Vehicular Man (Rabbit Poetry) Petra White, That Galloping Horse (Shearsman Books)
2023
Winner: Lionel Fogarty, Harvest Lingo (Giramondo) Michael Farrell, Googlecholia (Giramondo) 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) Eunice Andrada, TAKE CARE (Giramondo) 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) Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear (UQP) 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) Peter Boyle, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness (Vagabond Press) Stuart Cooke, Lyre (UWA Publishing) Ellen van Neerven, Throat (UQP) Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Books)
2019 Winner: Alison Whittaker, Blakwork (Magabala) 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) 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) 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)
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
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