Born: Established: 1982 Toowoomba, Toowoomba area, Darling Downs, Queensland, ;
Gender:
Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Peter Carey Short Story Award for 'The Tenements'.
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2017
highly commended
Queensland Poetry Festival Awards
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Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
for Percussion
Awards for Works
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Cadaver Dog
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
,
2020
19702860
2020
single work
novel
'When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Best crafts a terrifying and acute psychological portrait of grief and guilt. Loss, cowardice and trauma pulse through this singular and uncompromising narrative of ecological and personal disaster.' (Publication summary)
- 2021 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2021 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2020 highly commended Anne Elder Award
- 2019 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
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