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

"The poems in View from the Lucky Hotel are fully alive to the world. Many are located in Vietnam, yet while embedded in the specifics of locality, their issues resonate far beyond, alert to economics, politics, culture, history, aesthetics and ethics. 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

Five Islands Press — Press Release, May 2009:
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".
"innovative poetics" — judges Connie Barber and Jennifer Harrison

To read the press release, go to >>The Book

Reviews and articles

To read the full text of all the reviews, go to >>The Book

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

“… Importantly, Fitts is a poet prepared to ask questions of herself and...

Sandy Fitts

Sandy Fitts’ poetry has won many awards in the UK and Australia.

‘Waiting for Goya’ won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize in 2007. It was published in Island Issue 113 and Best Australian Poems 2008, Black Inc.

Other first prizes include….