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Over the last three years, Dolce has achieved further recognition as a serious poet and essayist winning the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup in Tasmania in 2010. He has set over one hundred poems to music, including works by Sappho, Sylvia Plath and C.P. Cavafy. "Cocaine Lil", a public domain lyric, formed the basis for a blues song which appeared on his 2007 album 'The Wind Cries Mary' and was included as a featured track in 'Australian Guitar Player Magazine' for Dolce's extraordinary one-take no overdubbed forty-bar guitar break at the end. He has had twenty-five of his own poems and eighteen new song-lyrics selected by Queen's Medal for Poetry recipient Les Murray for publication in Quadrant (magazine), including two poems in "Best of Quadrant Poetry 2001-2010". Quadrant (magazine) has also published four of his essays: "Biblical Imagery in the Songwriting of the Creative Infidels: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Paul Kelly" (Jan-Feb 2012),"Hey Mr Cowbell Man: Sir Christopher Ricks' Dylan's Visions of Sin" (Mar 2012), "Anti the Anti" (June 2012) and "In the Op Shop With Percy Grainger" (Nov 2012) with two more selected for publication in 2013. He has had poetry, essays, photographs and song-lyrics published in Meanjin, Overland, Island, Cordite, Eye of the Telescope, Carmenta, Journey, Vine Leaves, Going Down Swinging, Italian Essays, Divan and Antipodes (USA). His first book of poetry HATBOX was released in 2010.
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