Luke Davies
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney (BA) |
Luke Davies is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays.
Davies studied Arts at the University of Sydney. His first poetry collection Four Plots for Magnets was published in 1982 by S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press. Long out of print, it was republished (with additional poetry and prose) by Pitt Street Poetry in 2013.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Candy with director Neil Armfield, based on his 1997 novel Candy. The film stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as struggling heroin addicts. Davies himself overcame heroin addiction in 1990.
His other works include the novels Isabelle the Navigator and God of Speed, and several volumes of poetry – Four Plots for Magnets, Absolute Event Horizon, Running With Light, Totem and Interferon Psalms – as well as the chatbooks The Entire History of Architecture ... and other love poems (Vagabond Press, 2001) and The Feral Aphorisms (Vagabond Press, 2011).
Davies is the film critic for The Monthly, and occasional book reviewer and essayist for other magazines and newspapers. His children’s book, Magpie, was published by ABC Books in 2010.
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