Felicity Plunkett
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Felicity Plunkett is an Australian lecturer, reviewer and published poet.[1] Her poetry has been published
Career
Since graduating from the University of Sydney with a BA (Hons) in 1989, Plunkett has lectured and tutored at the University of Sydney, the University of Western Sydney, the University of Newcastle, the University of Tasmania, the University of New England and the University of Queensland. In 1995 she received her PhD for her work entitled Vociferous Self-Effacement: Paradoxical Power in the Writing of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Jolley.[2]
In 2009 her book of poetry Vanishing Point was published by the University of Queensland Press.
Published work
Books
- Vanishing Point (2009) ISBN 978-0-7022-3721-8
Anthologies
- Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (2001) ISBN 187-6-749-180
- Skylines: New Writing From New England (2000) ISBN 064-6-378-775
Awards and nominations
Prizes
- 2008 - Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for Vanishing Point
- 2007 - ABC Radio National Short Story Competition for Sleeping Like A Baby
- 2007 - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones[3]
- 2006 - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe[4]
Shortlisted
- 2009 - Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry) for Vanishing Point