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Lucy Dougan
Australian poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lucy Dougan (born 1966) is an Australian poet whose first collection was published in 1998.
Early life and education
Dougan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966.[1]
In 2009, she completed her PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia in dual format ‘’On the Circumvesuviana’’ (poetry) and ‘’The Vesuvian Imaginary: The Woman's Journey to Naples in Three Texts’’ (dissertation).[2] Her thesis formed the basis of her 2012 publication, On the Circumvesuviana.
Works
Poetry
- Dougan, Lucy (1998), Memory shell, Five Islands Press Associates, ISBN 978-0-86418-506-8
- — (2008), White clay, Giramondo Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-920882-32-7
- — (2011), Against Lawns : and other poems, Picaro Press
- — (2012), On the Circumvesuviana, Picaro Press, ISBN 978-1-921691-27-0
- — (2015), The Guardians, Artarmon NSW Giramondo Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-922146-75-5
As editor
- Zwicky, Fay (2017), Dougan, Lucy; Dolin, Tom (eds.), The collected poems of Fay Zwicky, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-932-9
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Awards and recognition
- Memory Shell won the 2000 Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry at the ASAL Awards[3]
- White Clay won the 2006 Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, ACT Poetry Prize[4]
- The Guardians was shortlisted for the 2015 Judith Wright Calanthe Award[5]
- The Guardians was shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Awards: Prize for Poetry[6]
- The Guardians won the 2016 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards — Poetry[7]
References
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