Felicity Plunkett | |
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Occupation | Poet and critic |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1994- |
Notable works | Vanishing Point |
Notable awards | 2008 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize winner |
Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic. [1]
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]
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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