Lucy Dougan

Dougan's elliptical work hints at a life that hovers just beyond our comprehension; in dreams, tales, the past, in the imagination of the poet. This other world surrounds even the most domestic of the poems. - Winner's citation, West Australian Premiers Poetry Award Lucy Dougan's new collection draws on and is alive to the mysterious zone that Surrealist artist Paul...

Many poems in this collection explore the intrusions of 'the wild' into daily life, through memories, in illness, and in places that you've lost or left behind. Dougan is interested in the ways in which the past re-enters the present, particularly through the secrets of family life, in all kinds of atavism, and in pockets of wildness in the suburbs...