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    Unexpected Clearing: Poems by Rose Lucas
    Unexpected Clearing: Poems by Rose Lucas
    Unexpected Clearing: Poems by Rose Lucas
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    Unexpected Clearing: Poems by Rose Lucas

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    Even in the Dark (2013), Lucas's earlier work, won the 2014 Mary Gilmore Award for Poetry (Association for the Study of Australian Literature).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUWA Publishing
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781742588452
    Unexpected Clearing: Poems by Rose Lucas
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    Rose Lucas

    Rose Lucas is a Melbourne poet, writer and academic and currently teaches poetry and editing at Victoria University, Melbourne. She is the co-author of Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1996). Lucas previously taught in the English department at Monash University for twenty years, and is is widely published in the scholarly areas of women's poetry, feminism, psychoanalysis and literary theory, and cinema studies. Her poems have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Hecate, Best Australian Poems 2007 and 2009, and she was shortlisted for the ABR Poetry Prize in 2009. Even in the Dark is her first collection of poetry.

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