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Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.

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.

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.

Poetry And Blood

The leaves are budding on the trees. The buds are popping everywhere. Spring as in spring in the step makes sense. In Paris there is the dead of winter as in you think of death as in great boats

Body Surfing

Reading physics in the Charger at North Bondi; after a while it gets hard to concentrate. All that sunlight.

Crescent Moon Over Over The Eiffel Tower

First I think of Jesus, or not actually Jesus, but the vapour trail from a jet, which makes a line across the hard sky parallel with the top of my window, which makes me think of Apollinaire

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