Vicki Viidikas (1948-1998). Courtesy Rochford Street Review.
Vicki Viidikas (25 September 1948 - 27 November 1998) was a 20th-century Australian poet and prose writer.
Life[]
Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain, New South Wales, poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin Johnston and John Tranter. The ‘counter culture’ and her travels in Asia, especially India, are recurrent subjects in her poetry. Her untimely death was much mourned in Australia's poetry community.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Condition Red. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1973. ISBN 0-7022-0884-1
- Knabel. Sydney & Eugene, OR: Wild & Woolley, 1978. ISBN 0-909331-56-1
- India Ink: A collection of prose poems written in India. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1984. ISBN 0-86806-093-3
Short fiction[]
- Wrappings. Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 1974. ISBN 0-909331-00-6
Collected editions[]
- New and Rediscovered (edited by Barry Scott). Yarraville: Transit Lounge, 2010.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
Vicki Viidikas - reading 'Tract of an Idiot' at Rochester Castle Hotel, Melbourne c1988
Audio / video[]
- A Poetry Reading by Vicki Viidikas at the Australian Defence Force Academy (DVD). Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, 1989.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Vicki Viidikas, AustLit.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Search results = au:Vicki Viidikas, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 5, 2015.
External links[]
- Audio / video
- Vicki Viidikas poems at YouTube
- About
- Vicki Viidikas at AustLit
- One day in the life of Vicki Viidikas by Stephen Oliver
- "Vicki Viidikas Rediscovered: Ali Alizadeh Interviews Barry Scott at Cordite Poetry Review, 2010
- Martin Edmond reviews New and Rediscovered
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