Felicity Plunkett

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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]

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Biography

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

Selected publications

Poetry collections

Anthologies (editor)

Anthologies (contributor)

Essays

Short stories

Book reviews

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.

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  4. Sleeping Like A Baby
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  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.
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