Disconcerted memory

Item: White Clay
Author: Paul Hetherington

by Paul Hetherington •

July–August 2008, no. 303

White Clay by Lucy Dougan

Giramondo, $22 pb, 91 pp

Disconcerted memory

by Paul Hetherington •

July–August 2008, no. 303

Lucy Dougan’s recent collection of poetry, White Clay, demonstrates a considerably wider range than her first collection, Memory Shell (1998), while reaffirming how centrally preoccupied her poetry is with the potency of lost time, and also with finding the truth behind appearances, locating what is hidden or marginal and tracking down family ghosts.

Paul Hetherington

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Paul Hetherington has published seventeen volumes of poetry and prose poetry and won or been nominated for more than forty national and international awards and competitions, recently winning the 2021 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. He co-wrote Prose Poetry: An introduction (Princeton, 2020), and co-edited Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP, 2020). He is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra.