Felicity Plunkett is an Australian

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, editor and academic.

Biography

Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry,

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s, and

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, and a widely published critic. She has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the

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and began her career as a university academic. She was poetry editor at the

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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

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''Red Dirt Hymns''.

Awards and nominations

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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'' *

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, 2008, winner for ''Vanishing Point'' * Anne Elder Award, 2009, commended for ''Vanishing Point'' * Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for ''Ruined Girls'' *

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(Poetry), 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 (Scrabble with Ivy'') *Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for ''13 Uses for a Poem'' *

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Poetry Prize, 2018, for ''Sound Bridge'' *

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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

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Anthologies (editor)

*''Thirty Australian Poets'', University of Queensland Press, 2011) *''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2016) *''States of Poetry Queensland'' (ABR, 2017)

Anthologies (contributor)

* ''Skylines: New Writing From New England'' (2000) * ''Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets'' ( Paper Bark Press. 2001) * ''The Best Australian Poems'' (Black Inc 2008). Edited by Peter Rose. * ''Best Australian Poetry 2008'' (University of Queensland Press 2008). Edited by David Brooks. * ''The Best Australian Poems 2009'' (Black Inc. 2009). Edited by Robert Adamson. * ''The Puncher and Wattman Anthology of Australian Poetry''. Ed. John Leonard. (Sydney: Puncher & Wattman, 2010 * ''The Best Australian Poems 2011'' (Black Inc. 2011). Edited by John Tranter. *''Global Poetry Anthology 2015'' (Véhicule Press. 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'' (Véhicule Press. 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 (Louisiana: Desperation Press/Turnrow Books, 2014). *''Best of Australian Poems 2021.'' Ed. Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. (Melbourne: Australian Poetry, 2021). *''The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry''. Ed. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington. (USA: MadHat Press, 2022).''The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry'', MadHat Press
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Essays

* "Plath Traps", Sydney Review of Book

* "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

References

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