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'''Felicity Plunkett''' is an Australian [[poet]], [[literary critic]], editor and academic.<ref>http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/author_details.php?id=2531 {{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }},University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 17 September 2010.</ref>
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'''Felicity Plunkett''' is an Australian [[poet]], [[literary critic]], editor and academic.<ref name="Austlit">{{cite web|title= Austlit — Felicity Plunkett |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A18032|access-date= 20 May 2024}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
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===Poetry collections===
===Poetry collections===
* {{cite book |author=Plunkett, Felicity |title=Vanishing Point |location=St Lucia, Qld |publisher=University of Queensland Press |year=2009 <!--isbn=9780702237218-->}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1071/Vanishing%20Point|title=Vanishing Point|publisher=University of Queensland Press|access-date=2019-01-18|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121307/https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1071/Vanishing%20Point|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{cite book |author=Plunkett, Felicity |title=Vanishing Point |location=St Lucia, Qld |publisher=University of Queensland Press |year=2009 <!--isbn=9780702237218-->}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1071/Vanishing%20Point|title=Vanishing Point|publisher=University of Queensland Press|access-date=2019-01-18|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121307/https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1071/Vanishing%20Point|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Plunkett, Felicity (2011). ''Seastrands''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plunkett |first1=Felicity |title=Seastrands |publisher=Vagabond Press |location=Sydney, NSW |url=https://vagabondpress.net/products/felicity-plunkett-seastrands}}</ref>
* Plunkett, Felicity (2011). ''Seastrands,''
* Plunkett, Felicity (2020). ''A Kinder Sea''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Plunkett|first=Felicity|url=https://www.uqp.com.au/books/a-kinder-sea|title=A Kinder Sea|date=2020-02-04|publisher=University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-6270-8}}</ref>
* Plunkett, Felicity (2020). ''A Kinder Sea''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Plunkett|first=Felicity|url=https://www.uqp.com.au/books/a-kinder-sea|title=A Kinder Sea|date=2020-02-04|publisher=University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-6270-8}}</ref>


===Anthologies (editor)===
===Anthologies (editor)===


*''Thirty Australian Poets, Un''iversity of Queensland Press, 2011)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thirty Australian Poets |url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1164/Thirty%20Australian%20Poets |publisher=University of Queensland Press}}</ref>
*''Thirty Australian Poets'', University of Queensland Press, 2011)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thirty Australian Poets |url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1164/Thirty%20Australian%20Poets |publisher=University of Queensland Press}}</ref>
*''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2016)<ref>{{Cite web |title=States of Poetry Queensland - Series One |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland |access-date=2019-01-18 |website=Australian Book Review}}</ref>
*''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2016)<ref>{{Cite web |title=States of Poetry Queensland - Series One |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland |access-date=2019-01-18 |website=Australian Book Review}}</ref>
*''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |title=States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-qld |access-date=2019-01-18 |website=Australian Book Review}}</ref>
*''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |title=States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-qld |access-date=2019-01-18 |website=Australian Book Review}}</ref>
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*''The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry''. Ed. [[John Kinsella (poet)|John Kinsella]] (Louisiana: Desperation Press/Turnrow Books, 2014).
*''The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry''. Ed. [[John Kinsella (poet)|John Kinsella]] (Louisiana: Desperation Press/Turnrow Books, 2014).
*''Best of Australian Poems 2021.'' Ed. Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. (Melbourne: Australian Poetry, 2021).
*''Best of Australian Poems 2021.'' Ed. Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. (Melbourne: Australian Poetry, 2021).
*''The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry''. Ed. [[Cassandra Atherton]] and [[Paul Hetherington]]. (USA: MadHat Press, 2022).<ref>[https://madhat-press.com/products/the-language-in-my-tongue ''The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry'', MadHat Press]</ref>


===Essays===
===Essays===
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* 'Sound Bridges: a Portrait of Gurrumul', Australian Book Review, [https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/157-june-july-2015-no-372/2555-sound-bridges-a-profile-of-gurrumul-by-felicity-plunkett]
* 'Sound Bridges: a Portrait of Gurrumul', Australian Book Review, [https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/157-june-july-2015-no-372/2555-sound-bridges-a-profile-of-gurrumul-by-felicity-plunkett]


===Short Stories===
===Short stories===
* 'Ruined Girls', Commended, Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize 2010, [http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick/]
* 'Ruined Girls', Commended, Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize 2010, [http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick/]
* 'In the Shade': Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 2, Issue 6, [https://www.overdrive.com/media/1361634/review-of-australian-fiction-volume-2-issue-6]
* 'In the Shade': Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 2, Issue 6, [https://www.overdrive.com/media/1361634/review-of-australian-fiction-volume-2-issue-6]
* 'Sleeping Like a Baby': ABC Radio National
* 'Sleeping Like a Baby': ABC Radio National


===Book Reviews===
===Book reviews===
{{cite journal |author=Plunkett, Felicity |date=September 2014 |title=Our terrible projections : Helen Garner and the corridors of empathy |journal=[[Australian Book Review]] |volume=364 |pages=15–17 |url= <!--accessdate= -->}} on {{cite book |author=Garner, Helen |title=This house of grief |publisher=Text Publishing |year= <!--isbn=9781922079206-->}}
{{cite journal |author=Plunkett, Felicity |date=September 2014 |title=Our terrible projections : Helen Garner and the corridors of empathy |journal=[[Australian Book Review]] |volume=364 |pages=15–17 |url= <!--accessdate= -->}} on {{cite book |author=Garner, Helen |title=This house of grief |publisher=Text Publishing |year= <!--isbn=9781922079206-->}}


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Felicity Plunkett
OccupationPoet and critic
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1994-
Notable worksVanishing Point
Notable awards2008 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize winner

Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic.[1]

Biography

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Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic.

She has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney and began her career as a university academic. She was poetry editor at the University of Queensland Press from 2010 to 2018.

In 2016, she wrote a lyric, Todesfuge, for composer Andrée Greenwell's album, Gothic.[2]

She worked with composer Andrew Ford, writing "Respair" for his song cycle Red Dirt Hymns.[3]

Awards and nominations

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  • ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby"[4]
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2005, shortlisted for The Sea in a Sieve
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe[5]
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones[6]
  • Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for Vanishing Point[7]
  • Anne Elder Award, 2009, commended for Vanishing Point
  • Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for Ruined Girls[8]
  • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry), 2010, shortlisted for Vanishing Point[9]
  • Arts ACT Judith Wright Prize, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point[10]
  • Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award, 2014, for Lost Sea Voices
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2014, shortlisted for Glass Letters
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2015, shortlisted for Songs in a Red Key and On carrying: seven cledons
  • Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2015, shortlisted for What the Sea Remembers[11]
  • Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for Syzygy (Scrabble with Ivy)[12]
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for 13 Uses for a Poem
  • Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2018, for Sound Bridge[13]
  • University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize, 2018, shortlisted for Carpus Diem[14]
  • Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2021, non-fiction, shortlisted for True to Form: A.E. Stallings, Jenny Xie, Ada Límon[15]
  • Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2022, non-fiction, shortlisted for Plath Traps[16]

Selected publications

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Poetry collections

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  • Plunkett, Felicity (2009). Vanishing Point. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.[17]
  • Plunkett, Felicity (2011). Seastrands[18]
  • Plunkett, Felicity (2020). A Kinder Sea[19]

Anthologies (editor)

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  • Thirty Australian Poets, University of Queensland Press, 2011)[20]
  • States of Poetry Queensland (ABR, 2016)[21]
  • States of Poetry Queensland (ABR, 2017)[22]

Anthologies (contributor)

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  • Skylines: New Writing From New England (2000) ISBN 0-646-37877-5
  • Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (Paper Bark Press. 2001) ISBN 1-876749-18-0
  • The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc 2008). Edited by Peter Rose. ISBN 978-1-86395-303-0[23]
  • Best Australian Poetry 2008 (University of Queensland Press 2008). Edited by David Brooks. ISBN 978-0-7022-3654-9
  • The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc. 2009). Edited by Robert Adamson. ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5[24]
  • The Puncher and Wattman Anthology of Australian Poetry. Ed. John Leonard. (Sydney: Puncher & Wattman, 2010
  • The Best Australian Poems 2011 (Black Inc. 2011). Edited by John Tranter. ISBN 9781863955492[25]
  • Global Poetry Anthology 2015 (Véhicule Press. 2015) Edited by Gabeba Baderoon, Kate Clanchy, Carolyn Forché, Amanda Jernigan, Anthony Lawrence, Niyi Osundare, Jennifer Rahim, K. Satchidanandan, Michael Schmidt, Bruce Taylor. ISBN 9781550654363[26]
  • Global Poetry Anthology 2017 (Véhicule Press. 2017) Edited by Kim Addonizio, David Dabydeen, Vona Groarke, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Pascale Petit, Talya Rubin, Carmine Starnino, Mark Tredinnick, Joseph Akawu Ushie. ISBN 9781550654844[27]
  • The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry. Ed. John Kinsella (Louisiana: Desperation Press/Turnrow Books, 2014).
  • Best of Australian Poems 2021. Ed. Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. (Melbourne: Australian Poetry, 2021).
  • The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry. Ed. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (USA: MadHat Press, 2022).[28]

Essays

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  • 'Plath Traps', Sydney Review of Books [1]
  • 'A mutinous and ferocious grace': Nick Cave and Trauma's Aftermath, Australian Book Review, [2]
  • 'Sound Bridges: a Portrait of Gurrumul', Australian Book Review, [3]

Short stories

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  • 'Ruined Girls', Commended, Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize 2010, [4]
  • 'In the Shade': Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 2, Issue 6, [5]
  • 'Sleeping Like a Baby': ABC Radio National

Book reviews

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Plunkett, Felicity (September 2014). "Our terrible projections : Helen Garner and the corridors of empathy". Australian Book Review. 364: 15–17. on Garner, Helen. This house of grief. Text Publishing.

References

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  1. ^ "Austlit — Felicity Plunkett". Austlit. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Gothic by Andrée Greenwell". Bandcamp. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Red Dirt Hymns".
  4. ^ Sleeping Like A Baby
  5. ^ "Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2006". Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  6. ^ "Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2007". Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  7. ^ "Arts Queensland Poetry Awards". 2010 Queensland Writers Centre. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Josephine Ulrick Prize winners".
  9. ^ "Western Australian Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  10. ^ "ACT Government Media Releases". 2019.
  11. ^ "What the Sea Remembers by Felicity Plunkett".
  12. ^ "Syzygy (Scrabble with Ivy) by Felicity Plunkett".
  13. ^ Mem: 32563976. "Hunter wins $10,000 for 2018 ACU poetry prize". Australian Catholic University. Retrieved 18 January 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "University of Canberra VC Poetry Prize Longlist" (PDF).
  15. ^ "Past winners of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award".
  16. ^ Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2022 Winners and Shortlist
  17. ^ "Vanishing Point". University of Queensland Press. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  18. ^ Plunkett, Felicity. Seastrands. Sydney, NSW: Vagabond Press.
  19. ^ Plunkett, Felicity (4 February 2020). A Kinder Sea. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-6270-8.
  20. ^ "Thirty Australian Poets". University of Queensland Press.
  21. ^ "States of Poetry Queensland - Series One". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  22. ^ "States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  23. ^ Rose, Peter (2008). The Best Australian Poems 2008. ISBN 9781863953030 – via Google Books.
  24. ^ The Best Australian Poems 2009 by Robert Adamson. 4 August 2009.
  25. ^ The Best Australian Poems 2011 by John Tranter. 29 August 2011.
  26. ^ "Montreal International Poetry Prize". Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  27. ^ "Montreal International Poetry Prize". Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  28. ^ The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry, MadHat Press
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