Luke Davies

 His first poetry collection Four Plots for Magnets was published in 1982 by S. K. Kelen at Glandular Press. The book was never released, but it was revised (with additional poetry and prose) by Pitt Street Poetry in 2013. He wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Candy with director Neil Armfield, based on his novel Candy. The film stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as heroin addicts struggling to overcome their addictions. Davies himself overcame heroin addiction in 1990.Davies also wrote his novels Isabelle the Navigator and God of Speed, and many volumes of poetry, including Four Plots for Magnets, Absolute Event Horizon, Running With Light, Totem and Interferon Psalms - as well as the chatbooks The Entire History of Architecture [...] and other love poems (Vagabond Press 2001) and The Feral Aphorisms (Vagabond Press, 2011)Davies wrote the screenplays for Air (a 2009 short film also he directed), Life,Lion, and the Felix van Gröningen drama Beautiful Boy. He was screenwriter for News of the World 2020, which was adapted from Paulette Jiles’ novel. John Curtin's Prize for Journalism was awarded to Davies for his essay The Penalty Is Death. It concerns the life of Andrew Chan (a drug runner who was on Bali's death row) as well as Myuran Sukmaran (a prisoner). (They were executed by firing squad to great public controversy, in 2015. His children's book Magpie was released in 2010 by ABC Books.