Lucy Dougan
Lucy Dougan (born 1966) is an Australian poet who began publication in 1998.
Early life and education
[edit]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
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- 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, retrieved 16 May 2018
- — (2012), On the Circumvesuviana, Picaro Press, ISBN 978-1-921691-27-0
- —; Australia Council (sponsoring body.) (2015), The guardians, Artarmon NSW Giramondo Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-922146-75-5
As editor
[edit]- Zwicky, Fay (2017), The collected poems of Fay Zwicky, Dougan, Lucy, (editor.); Dolin, Tom, (editor.), UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-932-9
Awards and recognition
[edit]- 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- White Clay won the 2006 Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, ACT Poetry Prize[4]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
[edit]- ^ "Lucy Dougan". Austlit, State Library of NSW. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ Dougan, Lucy (2009), On the Circumvesuviana (poetry); and The vesuvian imaginary: the woman's journey to Naples in three texts (dissertation), retrieved 16 May 2018
- ^ "Book awards: Mary Gilmore Prize". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "Lucy Dougan's 'The Guardians'". Westerly magazine. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "2015 Queensland Literary Awards shortlist announcement". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ^ "Winners announced for Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2018.