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Luke Davies’ first poetry collection Four Plots for Magnets was published by S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press in 1982, when Davies was twenty. Absolute Event Horizon (1994) was shortlisted for the Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize. Running with Light (1999) won the Judith Wright Poetry Prize at the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. Totem (2004) won both the Age Poetry Book of the Year and the overall Age Book of the Year prizes, the Grace Leven Prize, the John Bray Poetry Award at the South Australian Premier’s Awards, and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal.

Interferon Psalms (2011) won the inaugural Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2012.

Davies’ novel Candy (1997) was filmed to his screenplay in 2006 by director Neil Armfield. His other novels are Isabelle the Navigator (2000) and God of Speed (2008).

His film criticism has appeared for many years in The Monthly.

Four Plots for Magnets, 2nd edition (paperback)

Paperback with French Flaps. B format 128 x 198 mm. 132 pages. Full colour cover.
ISBN 978-1-922080-12-7.
Re-issue of Luke Davies' first poetry collection from 1982, with a foreword by the poet, an afterword by original publisher, poet S. K. Kelen, snapshots, notes on the poems, and 53 additional previously uncollected contemporaneous poems

Price: A$25.00

Four Plots for Magnets, 2nd edition (e-book in e-pub format)

ISBN 978-1-922080-13-4.
This e-book is compatible with most e-book readers except for the Amazon Kindle.

Price: A$5.00

Four Plots for Magnets, 2nd edition (e-book in Kindle format)

ISBN 978-1-922080-13-4.
This e-book is compatible with the Amazon Kindle.

Price: A$5.00

A reprint of his legendary 1982 book with new essays by the poet and the original publisher – and 53 extra previously uncollected poems

Four Plots for Magnets was a slim volume of 13 poems published in an edition of 300 by poet S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press in Sydney in 1982. Today it is one of the rarest and most collectable poetry artefacts of the early eighties.

Pitt Street Poetry is proud to make Four Plots for Magnets available in a new edition with a foreword by the poet describing those heady days , an afterword by the original publisher S. K. Kelen, now a well-regarded poet in his own right, and 53 exuberant previously uncollected Luke Davies poems.