Anna Jackson is a poet from Aotearoa / New Zealand, who grew up in Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland and now lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington. Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems collects up poems from seven previous collections, and includes twenty-five new poems written in the last few years. It includes poems from Catullus for Children and I, Clodia, the two collections that engage with the work of Catullus, as well as poems about badminton, billiards, salty hair, takahe, head lice, indexing, proof-reading, hens, truth and beauty. Interviews and articles about the poetry can be read here.
Actions and Travels offers readings of one hundred poems, in chapters looking in turn at the qualities of simplicity and resonance, ornament and excess, composition, sprawl, form, argument, tradition, politics, lyric address and an orientation towards mortality. The list of poems and links to all of them can be found here, and the book itself can be ordered from AUP here.
Terrier, Worrier is part autobiography, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons. "This poem in five parts is a dazzling mosaic of thought, language, philosophy, dreaming and feeling, and it is so strikingly intimate that the bodies of both writer and reader are present in the patterning—as Anna thinks, feels, searches, recollects and recalibrates, so too does the reader. This closeness is sincere, like a dream that sticks without summoning, like the touch of a foot or warm leg in the night, and it is, I think, what makes this book feel like a kind of home… it is not just a book you want to have with you always, it is also a place you want to be" - Amy Marguerite.
Actions and Travels offers readings of one hundred poems, in chapters looking in turn at the qualities of simplicity and resonance, ornament and excess, composition, sprawl, form, argument, tradition, politics, lyric address and an orientation towards mortality. The list of poems and links to all of them can be found here, and the book itself can be ordered from AUP here.
Terrier, Worrier is part autobiography, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons. "This poem in five parts is a dazzling mosaic of thought, language, philosophy, dreaming and feeling, and it is so strikingly intimate that the bodies of both writer and reader are present in the patterning—as Anna thinks, feels, searches, recollects and recalibrates, so too does the reader. This closeness is sincere, like a dream that sticks without summoning, like the touch of a foot or warm leg in the night, and it is, I think, what makes this book feel like a kind of home… it is not just a book you want to have with you always, it is also a place you want to be" - Amy Marguerite.
Other work includes a novella, The Bedmaking Competition, and books on Diary Poetics, Verse Biography, the Age of Adolescence, and other matters, as well as the editing of a new series of AUP New Poets: AUP New Poets 5, AUP New Poets 6, AUP New Poets 7, AUP New Poets 8 and AUP New Poets 9.
For pictures, mostly of hens and books: https://www.instagram.com/flew_out_of/
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For pictures, mostly of hens and books: https://www.instagram.com/flew_out_of/
And tweets now take place here: @flewoutof.bsky.social
“The world was flammable, we knew it was."
Art work from Keely O'Shannessey's cover for Pasture and Flock.
