Anything the Landlord Touches

Poetry. '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.