Felicity Plunkett

Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet and critic.^[1] She is Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press.

Career

Felicity Plunkett has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney. She has worked as an academic at several universities, and is a widely published writer of poetry, reviews, articles and short stories.

Published work

Books

• Vanishing Point (2009) ISBN 978-0-7022-3721-8 ^[2][3]
• Seastrands (2011) ^[4]

Anthology (as editor)

• Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011) ^[5]

Anthologies (contributor)

• The Best Australian Poems 2011 (Black Inc. 2011). Edited by John Tranter. ISBN 9781863955492 ^[6]
• The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc. 2009). Edited by Robert Adamson. ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5 ^[7]
• Best Australian Poetry 2008 (UQP 2008). Edited by David Brooks. ISBN 978-0-7022-3654-9
• The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc 2008). Edited by Peter Rose. ISBN 978-1-86395-303-0 ^[8]
• Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (Paperbark Press. 2001) ISBN 1-876749-18-0
• Skylines: New Writing From New England (2000) ISBN 0-646-37877-5

Awards and nominations

Awards

• Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for Vanishing Point^[9]
• Judith Wright Prize, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point ^[10]
• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry), shortlisted for Vanishing Point ^[11]
• Anne Elder Award, commended for Vanishing Point
• Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for "Ruined Girls" ^[12]
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones^[13]
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe^[14]
• ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby" ^[15]

References