Vicki Viidikas

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Vicki Viidikas (born September 25, 1948 – died November 27, 1998) was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.

Vicki 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.

[edit] Works

Poetry

• Condition Red. (University of Queensland, 1973) ISBN 0-7022-0884-1
• Knabel. (Sydney: 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 stories

• Wrappings. (Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1974) ISBN 0-909331-00-6

[edit] External links

• One day in the life of Vicki Viidikas by Stephen Oliver

[edit] References

• Vicki Viidikas: Contents page at Australian Literature Resources

Persondata
NAME	Viidikas, Vicki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney, Australia
DATE OF DEATH	1998
PLACE OF DEATH	Sydney, Australia