Lucy Van
Lucy Van is a Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she also teaches literary studies. She was previously a writer in residence at Overland (2019-2020), and a Melbourne Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2018-2019). Lucy’s work has appeared in places including History of Photography, Journal of Australian Studies, Griffith Review, Southerly, Liminal Review of Books, Cordite Poetry Review, and Best of Australian Poems. Her first poetry collection, The Open (Cordite 2021), was longlisted for the Stella prize. With Anne Maxwell, her forthcoming title is Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views (Anthem 2024).
All essays by Lucy Van
Getting Shirty
Lucy Van reviews π.O.’s The Tour, a pugnacious verse chronicle of a poetic caper around the United States. From his dirty t-shirt to his dissatisfactions with American food, π.O.’s emblematic gestures of refusal characterise a volume that, for Van, exposes ‘the orders and disorders of our national poetry’.