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Felicity Plunkett

@felicity-plunkett.bsky.social

she / her Poet, critic, editor Poetry Editor, Australian Book Review Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)

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Jennifer Mills@jennifermills.net.au · 7mo ago

“This compendium interleaves its stories of allegiance and enmeshment, weaving its urgent cautionary impetus with the hope that wonder offers.” A very beautiful review of A Concise Compendium of Wonder in this weekend’s Saturday Paper (gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22838/...

A Concise Compendium of Wonder

What waits in the woods, gnarly or vulpine, that might devour or redeem us? This forested compendium is a treasury of trees and stories drawn from fairytales. Moonfolk gather around the last living tr...

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judithbishop.net@judithbishopauthor.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The 2026 Australian Book Review Peter Porter Poetry Prize longlist has been announced! As a judge this year together with Felicity Plunkett and Anders Villani, I am deeply grateful to all who entered for entrusting us with reading your poems.  www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...

2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

The longlist for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced Australian Book Review is delighted to announce the longlist for the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The prize was judged by Judi...

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Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last yr.

Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin award for Ghost Cities, ‘a genuine landmark in Australian literature’

Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin award for Ghost Cities, ‘a genuine landmark in Australian literature’

Author, who takes home $60,000, says finding out he won Australia’s most esteemed literary prize left him ‘in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs’ * Audacious, stimulating and ‘utterly bonkers’: Siang Lu, the thrilling new face of Australian literature * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When Siang Lu found out he’d won the Miles Franklin literary award, he had a physical reaction. “I was in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs,” the Brisbane-based author says. “I teared up. I lost my voice a little bit. It was the first time in my life that I’ve ever had to ask someone with a straight face, ‘Can you just please confirm to me that I’m not dreaming?’” The feeling Lu describes is akin to the surreal nature of his experimental, prize-winning novel, Ghost Cities. Set between modern and ancient times, and inspired by the vacant megacities of China, the sprawling, ambitious novel is shot through with absurdist humour, cultural commentary and satire in what the Miles Franklin judges describe as “at once a grand farce and a haunting meditation on diaspora”, and “a genuine landmark in Australian literature”. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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Australian Poetry@australianpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin

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Mireille Juchau@mireillejuchau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excerpts from Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, republished in English this month after decades out of print. A work that could not be more prescient, in its exploration of how fascism invades every part of private life, even the sleeping mind. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...

Dreams from the Third Reich

March 14, 2025 – "I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle around me, holding out bills I owed. I was perfectly calm unti...

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