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

1. UQP. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
2. http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=9780702237218
3. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35287671?selectedversion=NBD43852234
4. http://new.vagabondpress.net/products/felicity-plunkett-seastrands
5. http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1164/Thirty%20Australian%20Poets
6. http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/best-australian-poems-2011
7. http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/best-australian-poems-2009
8. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8tfxvrZ01d8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=best+australian+poems+2008&source=bl&ots=2rof6V0jqq&sig=IQMwcRBOUF1Zcf26nZnZA9uqqbo&hl=en&ei=ZMK3TM3uEY7ZcfzD4JUJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
9. http://www.qwc.asn.au/WritersResources/CompetitionsOpportunities/ArtsQueenslandPoetryAwards.aspx
10. http://www.chiefminister.act.gov.au/media.php?v=10006
11. http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/about_us/premiers_book_awards
12. http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick/
13. Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
14. Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes 2006. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
15. Sleeping Like A Baby