Anna Jackson

Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.

Biography

Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry.[1] She has received a number of awards for her work, including a 1999 Louis Johnson New writers’ Bursary, the 2001 Waikato University Writer in Residence, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2015, and in 2016 she was selected for the Residency Programme at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in 2017.[2]

Her poems were first published in the collection AUP New Poets 1 (AUP, 1999) and she has since published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in New Zealand and overseas.[3] Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood.[4]

She has an MA from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from Oxford University. She is currently an associate professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.[5]

Publications

Her work includes the following:[6]

Poetry

Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems (Auckland UP, 2018)

I, Clodia (Auckland UP, 2014)

Thicket (Auckland UP, 2011)

The Gas Leak (Auckland UP, 2006)

Catullus for Children (Auckland UP, 2003)

The Pastoral Kitchen (Auckland UP, 2001)

The Long Road to Teatime (Auckland UP, 2000)

Editor

Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (co-edited with Angelina Sbroma & Helen Rickerby: Victoria UP, 2016)

Verse Biography (special issue of the journal Biography: Hawai’i UP, 2016)

Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (co-edited with Jane Stafford: Victoria UP, 2009)

The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders (co-edited with Karen Coats & Rod McGillis: Routledge, 2007)

Reviews

Reviews of her work include:

  • The Gas Leak was reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature.[7]
  • Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems, published by Auckland University Press, was reviewed on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon programme on 3 April 2018.[8]
  • Review of Thicket by Anna Jackson in The Listener magazine.[9]
  • Review Short: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits in Cordite Poetry Review.[10]
  • Review of Thicket.[11]
  • Review by Landfall.[12]

References
  1. "Publications | School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  2. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  3. "Anna Jackson | poetryarchive.org". www.poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  4. Kemp, Jan; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Anna Jackson, 2007". Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  5. "Anna Jackson | School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  6. "Anna Jackson – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  7. Scudder, Erin (2017). "Dear Thief: Anna Jackson's The Gas Leak". Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) (35:2): 131–150. JSTOR 90018328.
  8. "NZ Books - Pukapuka Aotearoa review: Pasture and Flock". Radio New Zealand. 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  9. Noted. "Thicket by Anna Jackson review - The Listener". Noted. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  10. "Review Short: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits". Cordite Poetry Review. 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  11. "Review of Thicket" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  12. "A Net Stretched Taut Across a Court". Landfall Review Online. 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2018-10-27.

Further reading
  1. "Interview with Anna Jackson in Lumiere". Lumiere.
  2. "Powerful collections from NZ Poets - Otago Daily Times". Otago Daily Times.
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