Felicity Plunkett Explained

Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic.^[1]

Biography

Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic.

She has a BA (Honours) 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.^[2]

She worked with composer Andrew Ford, writing "Respair" for his song cycle Red Dirt Hymns.^[3]

Awards and nominations

• ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby"^[4]
• Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2005, shortlisted for The Sea in a Sieve
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe^[5]
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones^[6]
• Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for Vanishing Point^[7]
• Anne Elder Award, 2009, commended for Vanishing Point
• Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for Ruined Girls^[8]
• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry), 2010, shortlisted for Vanishing Point^[9]
• Arts ACT Judith Wright Prize, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point^[10]
• 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^[11]
• Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for Syzygy (Scrabble with Ivy)^[12]
• Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2017, shortlisted for 13 Uses for a Poem
• Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2018, for Sound Bridge^[13]
• University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize, 2018, shortlisted for Carpus Diem^[14]
• Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2021, non-fiction, shortlisted for True to Form: A.E. Stallings, Jenny Xie, Ada Límon^[15]
• Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2022, non-fiction, shortlisted for Plath Traps^[16]

Selected publications

Poetry collections

• Book: Plunkett, Felicity . Vanishing Point . St Lucia, Qld . University of Queensland Press . 2009 . ^[17]
• Plunkett, Felicity (2011). Seastrands^[18]
• Plunkett, Felicity (2020). A Kinder Sea^[19]

Anthologies (editor)

• Thirty Australian Poets, University of Queensland Press, 2011)^[20]
• States of Poetry Queensland (ABR, 2016)^[21]
• States of Poetry Queensland (ABR, 2017)^[22]

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. ^[23]
• 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. ^[24]
• 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. ^[25]
• 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. ^[26]
• 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. ^[27]
• 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).^[28]

Essays

• 'Plath Traps', Sydney Review of Books https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/clark-red-comet-sylvia-plath/
• 'A mutinous and ferocious grace': Nick Cave and Trauma's Aftermath, Australian Book Review, https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2019/251-june-july-2019-no-412/5513-a-mutinous-and-ferocious-grace-nick-cave-and-trauma-s-aftermath-by-felicity-plunkett
• 'Sound Bridges: a Portrait of Gurrumul', Australian Book Review, https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/157-june-july-2015-no-372/2555-sound-bridges-a-profile-of-gurrumul-by-felicity-plunkett

Short stories

• 'Ruined Girls', Commended, Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize 2010, http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick/
• 'In the Shade': Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 2, Issue 6, https://www.overdrive.com/media/1361634/review-of-australian-fiction-volume-2-issue-6
• 'Sleeping Like a Baby': ABC Radio National

Book reviews

Plunkett, Felicity . September 2014 . [<!--accessdate= --> Our terrible projections : Helen Garner and the corridors of empathy ]. . 364 . 15–17 . on Book: Garner, Helen . This house of grief . Text Publishing . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Austlit — Felicity Plunkett . Austlit. 20 May 2024.
2. Web site: Gothic by Andrée Greenwell. Bandcamp. 30 November 2021.
3. Web site: Red Dirt Hymns .
4. http://www.abc.net.au/shortstories/stories/s949626.htm Sleeping Like A Baby
5. Web site: Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2006. 17 September 2010.
6. Web site: Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2007. 17 September 2009.
7. Web site: Arts Queensland Poetry Awards. 2010 Queensland Writers Centre . 8 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101022165617/http://www.qwc.asn.au/WritersResources/CompetitionsOpportunities/ArtsQueenslandPoetryAwards.aspx . 22 October 2010 . dead .
8. Web site: Josephine Ulrick Prize winners.
9. Web site: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. State Library of Western Australia . 8 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129023553/http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/about_us/premiers_book_awards . 29 November 2010 . dead .
10. Web site: ACT Government Media Releases. 2019.
11. Web site: What the Sea Remembers by Felicity Plunkett .
12. Web site: Syzygy (Scrabble with Ivy) by Felicity Plunkett .
13. Web site: Hunter wins $10,000 for 2018 ACU poetry prize. Australian Catholic University. Mem: 32563976. 2019-01-18.
14. Web site: University of Canberra VC Poetry Prize Longlist.
15. Web site: Past winners of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award .
16. https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/whats_on/digital_literary_award Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2022 Winners and Shortlist
17. Web site: Vanishing Point. University of Queensland Press. 2019-01-18. 19 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121307/https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1071/Vanishing%20Point. dead.
18. Book: Plunkett . Felicity . Seastrands . Vagabond Press . Sydney, NSW .
19. Book: Plunkett, Felicity. A Kinder Sea. 2020-02-04. University of Queensland Press. 978-0-7022-6270-8.
20. Web site: Thirty Australian Poets . University of Queensland Press.
21. Web site: States of Poetry Queensland - Series One . 2019-01-18 . Australian Book Review.
22. Web site: States of Poetry Queensland - Series Two . 2019-01-18 . Australian Book Review.
23. Book: The Best Australian Poems 2008. 9781863953030. Rose. Peter. 2008. Google Books.
24. Book: The Best Australian Poems 2009 by Robert Adamson. 4 August 2009.
25. Book: The Best Australian Poems 2011 by John Tranter. 29 August 2011.
26. Web site: Montreal International Poetry Prize. 2019-01-18.
27. Web site: Montreal International Poetry Prize. 2019-01-18.
28. https://madhat-press.com/products/the-language-in-my-tongue The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry, MadHat Press