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.
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.
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/
And tweets now take place on blue sky: @flewoutof.bsky.social
For pictures, mostly of hens and books: https://www.instagram.com/flew_out_of/
And tweets now take place on blue sky: @flewoutof.bsky.social
“The world was flammable, we knew it was."
Art work from Keely O'Shannessey's cover for Pasture and Flock.
