Emma Lew (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet. Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at

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and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993.Emma Lew
(Thylazine Australian Artists and Writers Directory) Accessed: 3 January 2007 Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Her first volume of poems, ''The Wild Reply'', won the 1998 Mary Gilmore Prize and was joint winner of

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1998 Poetry Book of the Year Prize. Her second book, ''Anything the Landlord Touches'', published in 2002 and reissued in the UK by Shearsman Books in 2006, won the 2003 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier's Prize) and the 2003 Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry (Queensland Premier's Prize). A collection of German language translations of selected poems, ''Nesselgesang'', was published in 2008 (translations by Mirko Bonné).

Works

Poetry

*''The Wild Reply''. ( Black Pepper publishing, 1997)
reviews
*''Anything the Landlord Touches''. (Giramondo, 2002; Shearsman 2006)

*''Nesselgesang''. (yedermann Verlag, 2008) *''Luminous Alias''. (Vagabond Press, 2013) *''Crow College: New and selected poems''. (Giramondo, 2019)

References

External links

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