Felicity Plunkett


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

Biography

Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic.
She has a BA 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.
She worked with composer Andrew Ford, writing "Respair" for his song cycle Red Dirt Hymns.

Awards and nominations

  • ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby"
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2005, shortlisted for The Sea in a Sieve
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones
  • Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for Vanishing Point
  • Anne Elder Award, 2009, commended for Vanishing Point
  • Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for Ruined Girls
  • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, 2010, shortlisted for Vanishing Point
  • Arts ACT Judith Wright Award, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point
  • 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
  • Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for Syzygy
  • Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for 13 Uses for a Poem
  • Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2018, for Sound Bridge
  • University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize, 2018, shortlisted for Carpus Diem
  • Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2021, non-fiction, shortlisted for True to Form: A.E. Stallings, Jenny Xie, Ada Límon
  • Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2022, non-fiction, shortlisted for Plath Traps''

    Selected publications

Poetry collections

  • Anthologies (editor)

  • Thirty Australian Poets, University of Queensland Press, 2011)
  • States of Poetry Queensland
  • ''States of Poetry Queensland''

    Anthologies (contributor)

  • Skylines: New Writing From New England
  • Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets
  • The Best Australian Poems. Edited by Peter Rose.
  • Best Australian Poetry 2008. Edited by David Brooks.
  • The Best Australian Poems 2009. Edited by Robert Adamson.
  • The Puncher and Wattman Anthology of Australian Poetry. Ed. John Leonard.. Edited by John Tranter.
  • Global Poetry Anthology 2015 Edited by Gabeba Baderoon, Kate Clanchy, Carolyn Forché, Amanda Jernigan, Anthony Lawrence, Niyi Osundare, Jennifer Rahim, K. Satchidanandan, Michael Schmidt, Bruce Taylor.
  • Global Poetry Anthology 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.
  • The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry. Ed. John Kinsella.
  • Best of Australian Poems 2021. Ed. Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch..
  • The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry. Ed. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington..

    Essays

  • "Plath Traps", Sydney Review of Books
  • "A mutinous and ferocious grace". Nick Cave and Trauma's Aftermath, Australian Book Review,
  • "Sound Bridges: a Portrait of Gurrumul", Australian Book Review,

    Short stories

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

    Book reviews

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