Anything the Landlord Touches

by Emma Lew

'Anything the landlord touches' was Emma Lew's second collection to be published in Australia, where it was published by Giramondo 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.

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Emma Lew was born in Melbourne in 1962.
She studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993.
She has been a recipient of the Victorian Premier’s C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry.