Luke Davies

Luke Davies is an Australian poet,novelist, and writer of screenplays

Life
Davies was born in Sydney in 1962. Davies' brother Ben Davies, an Australian television producer, now teaches at Armidale Film and Television School in NSW, Australia. Youngest brother Felix Davies, is a Sound Recordist and Composer, residing in the United Kingdom.

Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty.

His novel Candy was made into a film starring Heath Ledger in 2006. 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 and Totem.

Recogniton

 * 1995: Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize Shortlisted for Absolute Event Horizon
 * 1998: A Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year
 * 2000: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Poetry Prize for Running With Light
 * 2004: The Age Poetry Book of the Year for Totem
 * 2004: Overall Age Book of the Year for Totem
 * 2004: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Totem
 * 2004: Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival
 * 2006: South Australian Premier's Awards, John Bray Poetry Award for Totem

Publications

 * Four plots for magnets. Sydney: Glandular Press, 1982.
 * Absolute Event Horizon: Poems. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1994.
 * Running with Light (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1999).
 * The Entire History of Architecture and Other Love Poems (Newtown, NSW: Vagabond Press, 2001).
 * Totem: Totem Poem Plus 40 Love Poems (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2004).

Poetry

 * (Glandular Press, 1982) ISBN 0959413030
 * Absolute event horizon : poems (Angus & Robertson, 1994) ISBN 020718402X
 * Running with light : poems (Allen & Unwin, 1999) ISBN 1865080128
 * Totem : Totem poem plus 40 love poems (Allen & Unwin, 2004) ISBN 1741143489 Review

Novels

 * Candy (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 1997)
 * Candy (Vintage Books, London 1998)
 * Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (Ballantine Books, New York 1998) ISBN 0345423879 (note: Davies made small but significant changes to the US and UK editions; he considers that the Australian edition, second edition and afterwards, is the definitive version.)
 * Isabelle the Navigator (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 2000)
 * Isabelle the Navigator (Berkley Books, New York 2002) ISBN 0425186040
 * God of Speed (Allen and Unwin, 2008), about Howard Hughes

Articles

 * Film review of Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant.