Laurie Duggan

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Laurence James Duggan (born 1949), known as Laurie Duggan, is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.

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Life

Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Poetry Society of Australia Prize (Scott 1970, Duggan 1971). He moved to Sydney in 1972 and became involved with the poetry scene there, in particular with John Tranter, John Forbes, Ken Bolton and Pam Brown. Duggan lectured at Swinburne College ( 1976) and Canberra College of Advanced Education (1983). [1]

His poetry grew out of contemplation of moments and found texts. [2] His interest in bricolage started early: while still at Monash he was working on a series of 'Merz poems', short poems about discarded objects, inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters. His book-length poem The Ash Range (1987) uses diaries, journals of pioneers, and newspaper articles in its construction of a history of Gippsland.[ citation needed ]

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

  • East: poems 1970-74 (Rigmarole of the Hours, 1976)
  • Under the Weather (Wild & Woolley, 1978)
  • Adventures in Paradise (1982)
  • The Great Divide: Poems 1973-83 (Hale & Iremonger, 1985)
  • The Ash Range (Picador, 1987)
  • Two Epigrams from Martial (Catnip Press, 1989)
  • All Blues : Eight Poems (Northern Lights, 1989)
  • Blue Notes (Picador, 1990) ISBN   978-0-330-27192-9
  • The Home Paddock : Blue Hills 21-35 (Noone's Press, 1991)
  • New and Selected Poems 1971-1993 (UQP, 1996) ISBN   978-0-7022-2624-3
  • Mangroves (UQP, 2003) ISBN   978-0-7022-3351-7
  • Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 (Shearsman, 2003) ISBN   978-0-907562-61-0
  • Let's Get Lost (Vagabond Press, 2005)
  • The Passenger (UQP, 2006) ISBN   978-0-7022-3555-9
  • Allotments (Fewer and Fewer Press, 2011)
  • Catnips (Donnithorne Street Press, 2012)
  • The Pursuit of Happiness (Shearsman Books, 2012)
  • Leaving Here (light-trap press, 2012)
  • The Collected Blue Hills (Puncher & Wattmann, 2012)
  • East & Under the Weather (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014)
  • Selected Poems 1971-2017 (Shearsman Books, 2018) ISBN   978-1848615731
  • Afterimages (Polar Bear, Sydney, 2018)
  • Homer Street (Giramondo, Melbourne, 2020) ISBN   978-1-925818-46-8

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
An ordinary evening in Newtown2013"An ordinary evening in Newtown". Australian Book Review . 350: 58. April 2013.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Australian Poets and their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996.
  2. ↑ David McCooey's chapter 'Contemporary Poetry: Across Party Lines' in The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN   978-0-521-65843-0, p. 165
  3. ↑ "Australian Centre Literary Awards - Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Toby Fitch's Rawshock wins Grace Leven Poetry Prize". Puncher & Wattmann. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

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