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Felicity Plunkett Felicity Plunkett i(A18032 works by)
Also writes as: Felicity Holland ; Anna Greening
Gender: Female
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1 Georgia Blain We All Lived in Bondi Then Felicity Plunkett , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 March 2024;

— Review of We All Lived in Bondi Then Georgia Blain , 2024 selected work short story

'Posthumous work has a spectral quality. It’s haunting to hear so distinctly the voice of a writer who has died, or to glimpse beyond it the work that might have been written. We All Lived in Bondi Then is a reminder of the loss Georgia Blain’s early death meant for readers, as well as those close to her. As acclaimed novelist Charlotte Wood writes in her introduction about the death of her friend, “my grief for Georgia was also about the terrible unfairness of losing her work, just when her talent was approaching its height”.'  (Introduction)

1 Lucy Treloar : Days of Innocence and Wonder Felicity Plunkett , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18-24 November 2023;

— Review of Days of Innocence and Wonder Lucy Treloar , 2023 single work novel

'Lucy Treloar’s third novel begins with two small girls playing together in a fenced kindergarten. They crush flowers into perfume and promise always to love each other. A man appears at the fence and, when he leaves, he takes one of the girls. The “outside-the-fence” girl turns and waves to the girl who remains, then skips ahead “into darkness”.' (Introduction)   

1 Jolts and Dislocation : Amanda Lohrey’s Bravura New Novel Felicity Plunkett , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 27)

— Review of The Conversion Amanda Lohrey , 2023 single work novel
'Transformation is one thing. Conversion is another. With its Latin roots con (with or together) and vertere (to turn or bend), conversion is haunted by a sense of coercion, the imposition of one will over another. In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, conversion comes in the form of Clarissa Dalloway’s daughter’s evangelistic tutor, Doris Kilman, the violence of colonialism, and brutish attempts by psychologist Sir William Bradshaw to instil ‘a sense of proportion’ into his vulnerable patients. Sir William gets what he wants. He ‘shuts people up’ under the auspices of ‘the twin goddesses of conversion and proportion’. Converting, for Woolf, means ‘to override opposition’.' (Introduction)          
1 Angela O’Keeffe The Sitter Felicity Plunkett , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 August 2023;

— Review of The Sitter Angela O'Keeffe , 2023 single work novel

'The narrator of Angela O’Keeffe’s first novel, Night Blue (2021), wants to tell the reader their “inner story”. A story of being made, exhibited and judged, it is narrated by Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting known as Number 11, 1952. Later named Blue Poles, the painting was purchased in 1973 by the National Gallery of Australia for $1.3 million. Because this sum was beyond the gallery director’s budget, it was controversially authorised by then prime minister Gough Whitlam.' (Introduction)    

1 Body and Home : The Grain of the Domestic Felicity Plunkett , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 455 2023; (p. 46-47)

— Review of Spore or Seed Caitlin Maling , 2023 selected work poetry ; Increments of the Everyday Rose Lucas , 2022 selected work poetry
1 Dot and Ern i "Like the hawk", Felicity Plunkett , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 79 2023; (p. 109-110)
1 Sib, Frith, Kin Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022; (p. 144-146)
1 Talara'tingi Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 180)
1 Reimagining Iris : An Exhilarating Squeezebox of a Novel Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 449 2022; (p. 45)

— Review of Iris Fiona Kelly McGregor , 2022 single work novel

'The accordion, or squeezebox, takes its name from the German Akkordeon, meaning a ‘musical chorus’ or ‘chorus of sounds’. This box-shaped aerophonic instrument makes music when keys on its sides are pressed, one side mostly melody, the other chords. Squeezing the instrument and playing with both hands, the musician dexterously produces polyphonous music.' (Introduction) 

1 Ground Level i "bed after bed, stacked", Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 166 2022; (p. 86)
1 On Dover Street i "Again, death rolled towards", Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 448 2022; (p. 34)
1 Closer i "A clothesline dandles", Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
1 Jessie Cole Desire : A Reckoning Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 20-26 August 2022;

— Review of Desire : A Reckoning Jessie Cole , 2022 single work autobiography

'Desire: A Reckoning, Jessie Cole’s second memoir and fourth book, is a leafy work. Leafy for its setting in the northern New South Wales forest where Cole grew up and still lives, and also for its delicate interleaving. The work’s terrain is desire, which it evokes through connections with place, and how solitude, connection and attachment are woven through our lives and torn by detachment.'(Introduction)   

1 Janine Mikosza : Homesickness Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21-27 May 2022;

— Review of Homesickness : A Memoir Janine Mikosza , 2022 single work autobiography

'Two women meet in a cafe. One asks permission to write the other’s life “while she lives it”. The writer is a compassionate and observant interlocutor. Her subject, Jin, is wary and evasive. Their conversation examines words survivors of violence live with: memory, forgetting, blame, denial, doubt.' 

1 Mirandi Riwoe The Burnished Sun Felicity Plunkett , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 9-15 April 2022;

— Review of The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story

'The Burnished Sun follows Mirandi Riwoe’s acclaimed historical novel Stone Sky Gold Mountain (2020), the latter about siblings Ying and Lai Yue, who flee China for the Australian goldfields. Writer and historian Yves Rees uses the term counter-historical to characterise the novel’s placement of marginalised histories at its centre. This energy and ethical drive, along with an exquisite attention to the bruising textures of the world and to those who survive them, is a signature of the short fiction collected in The Burnished Sun.'  (Introduction)

1 The Key i "Birds nested in the roof, heard", Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 35 no. 1 2021; (p. 252)
1 Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 August - 3 September 2021;

— Review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle , 2021 single work novella

'What kind of fruit would you be, and why? The unnamed narrator of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life struggles to answer this question at a group job interview as she stands in a circle with other interviewees. It’s one of many moments that highlight the ways the surreal and absurd stitch life’s fabric.' (Introduction)

1 Last Night i "Not any night’s slow", Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 33)
1 Fiona McGregor, Buried Not Dead Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6-12 March 2021;

— Review of Buried Not Dead Fiona McGregor , 2021 selected work essay
1 Acute, Tender Tribute Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 January 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of Josephine Rowe on Beverley Farmer Josephine Rowe , 2020 single work essay
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