Anthony Lawrence

Episode #6: The 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony

The 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ceremony was held at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 27 August. The event was compèred by ABR Deputy Editor, Amy Baillieu, with opening remarks from poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke.

<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page">Dawn the Proof</a> <span>by Tony Page</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/2386-dennishaskell">Dennis Haskell</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384" title="September 2016, no. 384">September 2016, no. 384</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page" title="Dennis Haskell reviews &#039;Dawn the Proof&#039; by Tony Page, &#039;Headwaters&#039; by Anthony Lawrence, and &#039;Gods and Uncles&#039; by Geoff Page"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/dfd6ff2830668e832bc18393578d999f_L.jpg" alt="Dennis Haskell reviews &#039;Dawn the Proof&#039; by Tony Page, &#039;Headwaters&#039; by Anthony Lawrence, and &#039;Gods and Uncles&#039; by Geoff Page" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span class="dropcap">T</span>he last two lines of Tony Page's <em>Dawn the Proof</em> (Hybrid Publishers, $25 pb, 87 pp, 9781925272239) ask 'how to seize / the grains of now'. One of Page's (implicit) ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/september-2016-no-384/185-september-2016-no-384/3557-dennis-haskell-reviews-dawn-the-proof-by-tony-page-headwaters-by-anthony-lawrence-and-gods-and-uncles-by-geoff-page">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383/184-august-2016-no-383/3510-news-from-the-the-editor-s-desk-august-2016">News from the Editor's Desk - August 2016</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/916-hiddenauthor">Hidden Author</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383" title="August 2016, no. 383">August 2016, no. 383</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p><span class="dropcap">N</span>ews from the the Editor's Desk in the August issue of <em>Australian Book Review.</em></p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383/184-august-2016-no-383/3510-news-from-the-the-editor-s-desk-august-2016">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383/184-august-2016-no-383/3466-jolley-prize-2016-shortlist-ash-by-anthony-lawrence">Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'Ash' by Anthony Lawrence</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/3254-anthonylawrence">Anthony Lawrence</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383" title="August 2016, no. 383">August 2016, no. 383</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p><span class="dropcap">W</span>hen he steps outside and pulls off the mask, it feels like removing a second face, the one he keeps from the ones who wouldn't understand and those who would ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/august-2016-no-383/184-august-2016-no-383/3466-jolley-prize-2016-shortlist-ash-by-anthony-lawrence">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/april-2016-no-380/178-april-2016-no-380/3150-letters-to-the-editor-april-2016">Letters to the Editor - April 2016</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/916-hiddenauthor">Hidden Author</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2016/april-2016-no-380" title="April 2016, no. 380">April 2016, no. 380</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><strong>TROVE CURTAILED</strong></p> <p>Dear Editor,</p> <p>As President of the Australian Historical Association, on 2 March I sent the following letter to the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister of Australia, (and copied it to the Hon. Bill Shorten MP, Leader of the Opposition; Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield, Minister for the Arts; and the Hon. Mark Dreyfus QC, MP, Shadow Minister for ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/111-february-2014-no-358/1847-jacinta-le-pastrier-reviews-signal-flare-by-anthony-lawrence">Signal Flare</a> <span>by Anthony Lawrence</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/3399-jacintaleplastrier">Jacinta Le Plastrier</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/content/111-february-2014-no-358" title="February 2014, no. 358">February 2014, no. 358</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/111-february-2014-no-358/1847-jacinta-le-pastrier-reviews-signal-flare-by-anthony-lawrence" title="Jacinta Le Plastrier reviews &#039;Signal Flare&#039; by Anthony Lawrence"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/8c65de010bd08c28dd62a66cc800ec57_L.jpg" alt="Jacinta Le Plastrier reviews &#039;Signal Flare&#039; by Anthony Lawrence" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span><span class="dropcap">A </span>signal flare, known mostly for its use as a maritime distress signal, has the ability to illuminate a disproportionately large area for what can also seem, given its intimate, hand-held origin, an unnaturally sustained time of several minutes. It is also the title of Anthony Lawrence’s fourteenth collection of poetry. While the phrase itself is not to be found in any of the poems, the poetic idea offered by ‘signal flare’ is powerful and lights its terrain. </span></p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2014/111-february-2014-no-358/1847-jacinta-le-pastrier-reviews-signal-flare-by-anthony-lawrence">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2013/november-2013-no-356/108-november-2013-no-356/1705-the-fishhouse-review">'The Fishhouse Review', a new poem by Anthony Lawrence</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/3254-anthonylawrence">Anthony Lawrence</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2013/november-2013-no-356" title="November 2013, no. 356">November 2013, no. 356</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p>The storm had passed through –<br />the bric-a-brac, hurly burly, the rough and tumble<br />racketing down the road:<br />a clothes horse at full sail</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2013/november-2013-no-356/108-november-2013-no-356/1705-the-fishhouse-review">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/april-2012-no-340/69-april-2012/851-anthony-lawrence-the-welfare-of-my-enemy">The Welfare of My Enemy</a> <span>by Anthony Lawrence</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/893-martinduwell">Martin Duwell</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/april-2012-no-340" title="April 2012, no. 340">April 2012, no. 340</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/april-2012-no-340/69-april-2012/851-anthony-lawrence-the-welfare-of-my-enemy" title="Martin Duwell reviews &#039;The Welfare of My Enemy&#039; by Anthony Lawrence"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/6ffa065634b02c07506d37e072a9ff8b_L.jpg" alt="Martin Duwell reviews &#039;The Welfare of My Enemy&#039; by Anthony Lawrence" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div> <div class="customHighlightText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"><p><span class="dropcap">T</span><em>he Welfare of My Enemy</em> is an unusual experiment in narrative poetry. Taking as its theme ‘the disappeared’, it is a set of narratives, a kind of anthology that imaginatively documents the myriad ways in which (and the different reasons for which) people go ‘off the radar’ and end up as missing persons ...</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2012/april-2012-no-340/69-april-2012/851-anthony-lawrence-the-welfare-of-my-enemy">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2010/april-2010-no-320/148-april-2010-no-320/2266-2010-abr-poetry-prize-shortlist">2010 ABR Poetry Prize shortlist</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Ynez Sanz, Diane Fahey, Philip Salom, Jillian Pattinson, Anthony Lawrence</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2010/april-2010-no-320" title="April 2010, no. 320">April 2010, no. 320</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><h2>Taken as Required</h2> <h3>by Ynes Sanz</h3> <p style="text-align: left;">An age ago, ill-matched,<br />ignorant but willing,<br />we set the rules.<br />‘Step by Step’, we said. ‘No Bullshit.’<br />Today, thinking of something else<br />I stumbled across the grey metal bracelet<br />you looped over that stick of a wrist<br />where your thin blood stained the skin<br />to resemble an antique map or a bad tattoo<br />(like the one they inked on for that photo shoot in the ’50s).</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2010/april-2010-no-320/148-april-2010-no-320/2266-2010-abr-poetry-prize-shortlist">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/september-2009-no-314/286-september-2009-no-314/11259-reading-ted-kooser-in-the-medical-centre-waiting-room-by-anthony-lawrence">Reading Ted Kooser in the Medical Centre Waiting Room</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/400giveaway/author/3254-anthonylawrence">Anthony Lawrence</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/september-2009-no-314" title="September 2009, no. 314">September 2009, no. 314</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p style="text-align: left;">A doctor with a face</p> <p style="text-align: left;">worn and grey as his cardigan</p> <p style="text-align: left;">calls my name</p> <p style="text-align: left;">in his rooms</p> <p style="text-align: left;">he asks about the book I’m reading</p> <p style="text-align: left;">I tell him</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2009/september-2009-no-314/286-september-2009-no-314/11259-reading-ted-kooser-in-the-medical-centre-waiting-room-by-anthony-lawrence">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>  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