Edward Jenner (writer)

Edward Jenner (born 1946 in Dunedin), is a New Zealand born poet, translator, teacher and researcher of Ancient Greek texts. He has lived in New Zealand and overseas teaching Classics and producing poems, translations, and scholarly articles. His poetry and research have been reviewed and remarked upon.^[1]

"Complete Gold Leaves", being his translations and the original Greek texts of Ancient Greek lamellae, appeared in 2016 in the magazine Percutio 2016 (number 10). Gold Leaves, outlining the state of research into the same and containing many of his translations, appeared in 2014. A volume of his poetry and prose poems appeared in 2009.

The literary critic, Jack Ross, has described Jenner's 'postmodern classicism', and his attention to landscapes 'above all, those of the Africa' and his 'devotion to the particularities of memory'.^[2] Poet Michael Harlow (Landfall 219, p. 195) referred to subjects such as 'certitude, the insistently rational and dogmatic ... and the posturing of much prevailing literary narcissism' as being 'challenged and unmasked' in Writers in Residence".

His latest book has been reviewed in Landfall 234 (pp. 179-182) by Johanna Emeney and in Poetry New Zealand Yearbook No.52 2018 (pp.308-310) by Jack Ross. The former calls attention to his evocations of landscape and the latter to his 'examination of "cracks in the edifice", the things we can never know, can never reconcile with one another'.

Works

• Ted Jenner, 'Messages from the Antipodes,' Sulfur 30 (1992)
• Gold Leaves, an account of the so-called 'Orphic' Gold tablets, with translations from the Ancient Greek. Atuanui Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9922453-7-5
• Percutio 2016. No.10 Special issue devoted to two projects by Classicist and poet Edward Jenner. ISBN 978-1-877441-53-0
• Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna (Titus Books, Auckland, 2009). ISBN 978-1-877441-09-7. 130 pp.
• The Love Songs of Ibykos: 22 Fragments (The Holloway Press, 1997).
• A Memorial Brass (Hawk Press, 1980).
• Ted Jenner, 'Plato's Academy', brief 47 (March 2013)
• Ted Jenner, 'Heraclitus Pseudoscientificus' (review) brief 50 (2014)
• Ted Jenner, 'The arrow that missed' (Cold Hub Press,Lyttelton, 2017) {{ISBN 978-0-473-39818-7}}

References

External links

• Writer file on Titus Books website
• Review of Jenner's poetry by J. Ross
• Article which appeared later in Gold Leaves may be read here.
• Ritual Performance and the Gold Leaves.