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