Background
Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott.
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"The Ash Range", originally published in Sydney in 1987, is a long work that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations - somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" - to narrate a history of Gippsland, an area of south Victoria State.
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Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, as well as a volume of cultural history "Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939" (2001). "The Ash Range", originally published by Picador Australia in Sydney in 1987, won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award that year, and is a major milestone in the author's career. The book is a long work that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations - somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" - to narrate a history of the settlers' engagement with Gippsland, an area of south-eastern Victoria State, the narrative runnning through until the latter half of the 20th century, ending roughly when the author himself left the area. Like "Paterson", which concerns itself with small-town New Jersey, "The Ash Range" is not constrained by its locality, but instead finds the universal in its examination of the local. While the work is enormously ambitious in its mix of materials, the whole is welded into a solid structure that facilitates communication of the theme, even to an audience that has never heard of the territory it celebrates. This second edition of "The Ash Range" is published simultaneously with the author's Selected Poems 1971-2003, "Compared to What".
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Under the Weather.
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("The small poems . . . slowly build up to a much larger n...)
"The small poems . . . slowly build up to a much larger narrative; a narrative of time and memory, of thinking and looking and being in the world, a kind of history that is happening on the sidelines." - Fiona Wright "Sceptical as I am about anti-poetry, of which there is a lot around and which can assume many different forms, the fully formed poems are not the only writing I can value in a book like this. There is too much wit, absurdity, and sheer verbal craft to be ignored." -Peter Riley
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Laurie Duggan
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He moved to Sydney in 1972 and became involved with the poetry scene there, in particular with John Tranter, John Forbes, Ken Bolton and Pam Brown. Duggan lectured at Swinburne College ( 1976) and Canberra College of Advanced Education (1983). His poetry grows out of contemplation of moments and found texts.
His interest in bricolage started early: while still at Monash he was working on a series of "Merz poems", short poems about discarded objects, inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters.
His book-length poem The Ash Range (1987) uses diaries, journals of pioneers, and newspaper articles in its construction of a history of Gippsland.
Achievements
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1971 - Poetry Society of Australia Award for the poem E. 1976 - Anne Elder Poetry Award for East: Poems 1970-1974. 1988 - Victorian Premier"s Award for The Ash Range. 1989 - Welsey Michel Prize for The Epigrams of Martial. 2003 - Age Poetry Book of the Year for Mangroves. 2004 - Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves. 2007 - Queensland Premier"s Literary, Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for The Passenger.
Works
book
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The Ash Range (Paperback) - Common
("The Ash Range", originally published in Sydney in 1987, ...)
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The ash range (Picador)
(Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in ...)
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Allotments
("The small poems . . . slowly build up to a much larger n...)
- Two Epigrams from Martial: New Versions
- Under the Weather.
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The Ash Range (Paperback) - Common
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Nationality
Australian
Awards
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1971 - Poetry Society of Australia Award for the poem East. 1976 - Anne Elder Poetry Award for East: Poems 1970-1974. 1988 - Victorian Premier's Award for The Ash Range. 1989 - Welsey Michel Prize for The Epigrams of Martial. 2003 - Age Poetry Book of the Year for Mangroves. 2004 - Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves. 2007 - Queensland Premier's Literary , Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for The Passenger.1971 - Poetry Society of Australia Award for the poem East. 1976 - Anne Elder Poetry Award for East: Poems 1970-1974. 1988 - Victorian Premier's Award for The Ash Range. 1989 - Welsey Michel Prize for The Epigrams of Martial. 2003 - Age Poetry Book of the Year for Mangroves. 2004 - Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves. 2007 - Queensland Premier's Literary , Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for The Passenger.
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1971 - Poetry Society of Australia Award for the poem East. 1976 - Anne Elder Poetry Award for East: Poems 1970-1974. 1988 - Victorian Premier's Award for The Ash Range. 1989 - Welsey Michel Prize for The Epigrams of Martial. 2003 - Age Poetry Book of the Year for Mangroves. 2004 - Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves. 2007 - Queensland Premier's Literary , Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for The Passenger.1971 - Poetry Society of Australia Award for the poem East. 1976 - Anne Elder Poetry Award for East: Poems 1970-1974. 1988 - Victorian Premier's Award for The Ash Range. 1989 - Welsey Michel Prize for The Epigrams of Martial. 2003 - Age Poetry Book of the Year for Mangroves. 2004 - Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mangroves. 2007 - Queensland Premier's Literary , Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for The Passenger.