Thicket
Auckland University Press, 2011
Poems that consider badminton at dusk, Virgil at bedtime, theory over wine; shimmering, multi-faceted poems of swans and puppets, sons and brothers, a woman who has become a tree..
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Poems that consider badminton at dusk, Virgil at bedtime, theory over wine; shimmering, multi-faceted poems of swans and puppets, sons and brothers, a woman who has become a tree..
Buy Thicket
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Cover design Athena Summerfeld, art by Kathryn Madill
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"...rich, allegorical terrain comprising storytelling, family and feminism" Siobhan Harvey in the Listener, 2011.
"...deliciously dark and subversively suburban. Jackson can take the smallest of starts, sending a letter, losing keys or writing a shopping list, building these domestic scenes into dark yet alluring dioramas." Matt Bowler in The Nelson Mail.
"...stunning stuff, infectious as always, with a lyrical warmth and emotional rawness few poets combine as convincingly" Hamish Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
"Thicket secures her position as one of New Zealand's most remarkable contemporary poets. The poems are tangled – in the best way – with tangential thoughts expressed in plain language... a triumph – for women's poetry in particular – because it plays out the domestic in the most alarming, intellectual, readerly, emotionally charged manner" Anne Kennedy, Landfall
"inventive, skittish, energetic, and odd, definitely worth making your way through..." Jenny Bornholdt, Listener Best Books, 2011
"...bright stitchery on an uncertain ground, dark mythic vistas, word-play and inscribed efforts to tame the tangles and impose some perspective...so much is going on here..." Janet Hughes, NZ Books
"...deliciously dark and subversively suburban. Jackson can take the smallest of starts, sending a letter, losing keys or writing a shopping list, building these domestic scenes into dark yet alluring dioramas." Matt Bowler in The Nelson Mail.
"...stunning stuff, infectious as always, with a lyrical warmth and emotional rawness few poets combine as convincingly" Hamish Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
"Thicket secures her position as one of New Zealand's most remarkable contemporary poets. The poems are tangled – in the best way – with tangential thoughts expressed in plain language... a triumph – for women's poetry in particular – because it plays out the domestic in the most alarming, intellectual, readerly, emotionally charged manner" Anne Kennedy, Landfall
"inventive, skittish, energetic, and odd, definitely worth making your way through..." Jenny Bornholdt, Listener Best Books, 2011
"...bright stitchery on an uncertain ground, dark mythic vistas, word-play and inscribed efforts to tame the tangles and impose some perspective...so much is going on here..." Janet Hughes, NZ Books
