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Laurie Duggan, Britain, 2007
Laurie Duggan (b. 1949) was born in Melbourne, has lived in Sydney and Brisbane and currently lives in England. He has published numerous books of poems including The Ash Range, which won the Victorian Premier’s New Writing Award; The Epigrams of Martial, winner of the Wesley Michael Wright Prize; Mangroves, The Age Poetry Book of the Year (2003) and winner of the 2004 ASAL Gold Medal; Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971–2003, published by Shearsman (UK, 2005); and The Passenger (UQP, 2006). His cultural history Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901–1939, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2001. He was poetry editor of Meanjin from 1994 to 1997, a Writer in Residence in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University over 2005 and 2006, and an Honorary Research Advisor in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland.
Laurie Duggan: A selection of poems
David McCooey: Particularities: Reading Laurie Duggan
Laurie Duggan in conversation with David McCooey, April, 2001
Laurie Duggan: ‘The Oval Window’ (on the poetry of J H Prynne)
Laurie Duggan: ‘Mister P.B.’ — on Paul Blackburn
Laurie Duggan reviews Unhurried Vision, by Michael Rothenberg (on Philip Whalen)
Laurie Duggan: Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (on Gael Turnbull, 1928–2004)
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 1: The Monash Years — diary entries for the period March 1968 to February 1972. 9,500 words. Including five early poems: ‘Nonsensonnet’ January 1968 / ‘Edge’ May 1970 / ‘Gaugin’ December 1970 / ‘Crossroads’ December 1970-January 1971 / from ‘The Cockatoo Draft’ December 1971. 9,500 words, 18 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 2: The Sydney Years, 1972-1978: — diary entries for the period February 1972 to December 1978. 13,000 words. Contains several draft poems. 13,000 words, 26 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 3: The ‘Poetry Wars’, 1979–1986
17,600 words. Letters, meetings, poetry workshops, draft poems, commentary on the poetry scene and its conflicts. 17,600 words, 30 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 4: Europe, March-May 1987. 8,000 words. Laurie Duggan received an Australia Council grant in 1987, and travelled overseas for the first time, spending six weeks over April and May in Italy, Spain, France and Britain. 8,000 words, 15 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 5: America, September-December 1987. 12,500 words. In late 1987, Laurie Duggan took part in an Australia Council and Department of Foreign Affairs sponsored reading tour to 15 fifteen institutions and venues in the US and Canada together with Helen Garner and Michael Heyward, organised by Lyn Tranter. 12,500 words, 18 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 6: Manchester & Washington, June-December 1992: ‘In the second half of 1992 Rosemary Hunter had study leave and we were based for three months each at Manchester (UK) and Georgetown (Washington DC) Universities. These were great months for gallery going and for catching up with writers whose work I admired.’ 17,500 words, 30 printed pages.
Laurie Duggan Diary Entries 7: Melbourne & Brisbane, 1988–2005: ‘…The tone of the earlier entries is a little grimmer than usual with the sense that I had come to the end of something. I did stop writing poems for six years from late 1994 (a blip on the radar from 1999 appears here). I started to write again in late 2000 with a sense of release. The problems of poetry remained with me but I had gained in the interim a perspective on the smallness and craziness of the poetry world.’ 14,000 words, 20 printed pages.
Bibliography
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