Anna Jackson

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

Biography

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Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. 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.[1]

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.[2] Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood.[3] Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry.[4] The Gas Leak was reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature.[5]

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.[6]

Thicket by Anna Jackson was reviewed in the Listener magazine,[7] and in takahē magazine.[8] I, Clodia, and Other Portraits was reviewed by Cordite Poetry Review,[9] and Landfall.[10]

Awards and honours

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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 a 2017 residency at the Michael King Writers Centre.[11] In 2018 she was a winner of Viva la Novella VI with The Bed-making Competition[12].

Publications

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Her work includes the following:[13]

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)

Fiction

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  • The Bed-making Competition (2018)

References

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  1. ^ "Anna Jackson - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Anna Jackson - poetryarchive.org". www.poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ Kemp, Jan; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Anna Jackson, 2007". Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Publications - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  5. ^ Scudder, Erin (2017). "Dear Thief: Anna Jackson's The Gas Leak". Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) (35:2): 131–150. JSTOR 90018328.
  6. ^ "NZ Books - Pukapuka Aotearoa review: Pasture and Flock". Radio New Zealand. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. ^ Noted. "Thicket by Anna Jackson review - The Listener". Noted. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Review of Thicket" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Review Short: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits". Cordite Poetry Review. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  10. ^ "A Net Stretched Taut Across a Court". Landfall Review Online. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Anna Jackson". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  12. ^ Mem: 9369632. "Jackson, Jones win Viva la Novella | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 8 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Anna Jackson – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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