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'Anything the Landlord Touches was Emma Lew's second collection to be published in Australia, where it was published by Giramondo of Newcastle, NSW, 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's poetry is marked by the pungency of her language and the dramatic intensity of her poems, often couched in the form of estranged monologues. Her lines can sometimes seem disconnected, but the pile-up of effects works like a montage, and the skewed observations circle their subject, searching for the core reality at the heart of the poem. This book is published in the UK and the USA by arrangement with Giramondo Publishing.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: To the memory of John Anderson and for Phil, Rosie, Tom and Ian.
Contents
- The Clover Seed Hexi"Once my foot was like a cube of sugar.", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Justin Lowe Reviews Emma Lew and Ashlley Morgan-Shae
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 13 2003;
— Review of Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry ; Love Trash 2002 selected work poetry -
"...Quince Tree, Birds, Light Shows, Rains, Everything"
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 213-220)
— Review of Ships on Fire 2002 selected work poetry ; Hothouse 2002 selected work poetry ; Timedancing 2002 selected work poetry ; Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
Always Disappearing
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 48 no. 2003; (p. 74-84)
— Review of Mangroves 2003 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems : 1961-2002 2002 selected work poetry ; Gwen Harwood : Collected Poems 1943-1995 2003 collected work poetry ; Wild Surmise 2002 single work novel ; A Break in the Weather 2003 single work novel ; Portrait in Skin 2002 selected work poetry ; The Fall 2003 selected work poetry ; Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
Every Night I Know I Have Seen the Best Corot
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 175-182)
— Review of Light and Water : Forty Prose Poems 1980-1999 2002 selected work poetry ; Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; Life Given 2002 selected work poetry ; Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
A Touch for the Different
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 July 2003; (p. 6a)
— Review of Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry
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Search for a Sense of Place
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 January 2003; (p. 12)
— Review of Goddess of Mercy : Poems 2002 selected work poetry ; Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry ; Rivers 2002 selected work poetry -
Seductive Amnesia
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 248 2003; (p. 44)
— Review of Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
A Haunting, Modern Voice for the Old World
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 March 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
A Touch for the Different
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 July 2003; (p. 6a)
— Review of Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
Every Night I Know I Have Seen the Best Corot
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 175-182)
— Review of Light and Water : Forty Prose Poems 1980-1999 2002 selected work poetry ; Attempts at Being 2002 selected work poetry ; Life Given 2002 selected work poetry ; Anything the Landlord Touches 2002 selected work poetry -
The New Mannerism : The Poetry of Emma Lew
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 233-237)
Awards
- 2004 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — John Bray Award for Poetry
- 2003 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
- 2003 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
- 2003 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
- 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry