Lucas Farrell's work takes two main forms: written and caramel. He oscillates between those mediums, following the rhythms of the year on Big Picture Farm.
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Townshend farmer and author Lucas Farrell has won the inaugural Sundog Poetry Book Award for the blue-collar sun. Vermont poet laureate Mary Ruefle judged the.
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TOWNSHEND â On a trip to Iceland in 2009, poet Lucas Farrellâs wife, artist Louisa Conrad, brought him a fish hook that had pierced the bottom of her boot. The hook sat on his desk for a while as he wrote.
âAnd then everything I was writing kept steering back to that hook,â Farrell, 39, recalled recently.
His meditations on the fish hook would become the fourth and final section of âthe blue-collar sun,â the manuscript that won the Townshend farmer the 2020 Sundog Poetry Book Award for a first or second manuscript by a Vermont poet. This was the first year of the contest, designed to highlight emerging writers.