Sound Bridge single work   poetry   "My son sings the Lacrimosa in Hodonin: joy-"
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Sound Bridge
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    About the poem:

    ‘Sound Bridge’ collects moments — watching grainy footage of my son’s school choir singing the Lacrimosa from Mozart’s Requiem in Moravia on a music tour, the 2018 Tham Luang Nang Non cave rescue — and snippets of artworks (the first line of Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’, the last bars Mozart wrote, a snippet of Bob Dylan’s You Angel, You). The anatomy of the piano gave me something of a structure, along with ideas of strings (a piano’s wound strings, the rope out of the cave, and risky heart-strings) and the weave of loss, gain, love and mourning. 
    The poem was awarded second place in Australian Catholic University’s Poetry Prize in 2018, the theme of which was empathy (allowing me to joke about winning second prize in the empathy competition). Judge Chris Wallace Crabbe described the poem as ‘crammed with music, as with life’s vitamins’. 

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Empathy : Poems from the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry Australian Catholic University (editor), North Sydney : Australian Catholic University , 2018 15305505 2018 anthology poetry

    The anthology of poems was drawn from the entries of the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry awarded on 6th September in Melbourne. 

    North Sydney : Australian Catholic University , 2018
    pg. 71-72
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Kinder Sea Felicity Plunkett , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18610460 2020 selected work poetry 'A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. It is composed of sequences – love letters, elegies, narratives and odes – it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices, remaking form and craft. Felicity Plunkett's remarkable poems balance wrack and loss with vitality, resilience and beauty.' (Publication summary) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 pg. 1-2
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Writ Poetry Review no. 4 February 2020 19281098 2020 periodical issue 2020
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