Sandy Fitts

View from the Lucky Hotel

View from the Lucky Hotel

“Droll, zestful, tender, complicated, meditative, companionable both with persons and with their things — Sandy Fitts’ poems invite the reader into tout le monde.”
Peter Steele

“A wonderfully fresh, subtle and endearing voice.”
Helen Garner

“In this first collection, Sandy Fitts establishes a signature style that includes lyric, satire, essay, and narrative forms. This is poetry with range and a keen eye."
Five Islands Press

National Award for

View from the Lucky Hotel

The Fellowship of Australian Writers has announced that View from the Lucky Hotel is a winner of the FAW Anne Elder Award, for the “best first collection of poetry published in Australia in 2008”. Five Islands Press — Press Release.

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Reviews and articles

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“…a vibrant, challenging, deeply authentic voice and vision.””
Diane Fahey Reviews in Australian Studies, 2008, British Australian Studies Association, London, UK.

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Copies of View from the Lucky Hotel

Now Available

Following its second print run, View from the Lucky Hotel is once more available. Copies can be bought through www.fiveislandspress.com. Alternatively, order it through your local bookshop or through distributor www.australianbookgroup.com.au

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