Anna Jackson Explained

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. 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

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

Her work includes the following:[13]

Poetry
Editor

Fiction

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Jackson - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington. www.victoria.ac.nz. en. 2018-10-13.
  2. Web site: Anna Jackson - poetryarchive.org. www.poetryarchive.org. en. 2018-10-27.
  3. News: Anna Jackson, 2007. Kemp. Jan. 2018-10-27. Taonga. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. en.
  4. Web site: Publications - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington. www.victoria.ac.nz. en. 2018-10-13.
  5. Scudder. Erin. 2017. Dear Thief: Anna Jackson's The Gas Leak. Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL). 35:2. 131–150. 90018328.
  6. News: NZ Books - Pukapuka Aotearoa review: Pasture and Flock. 2018-04-03. Radio New Zealand. 2018-10-13. en-nz.
  7. Web site: Thicket by Anna Jackson review - The Listener. Noted. Noted. en. 2018-10-27. 27 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101322/https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2011/thicket-by-anna-jackson-review/. dead.
  8. Web site: Review of Thicket. 2018-10-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20190215011849/http://www.takahe.org.nz/oldsite/reviews/t75/Takahe75Thicket.pdf. 2019-02-15. dead.
  9. News: Review Short: Anna Jackson’s I, Clodia, and Other Portraits. 2015-04-12. Cordite Poetry Review. 2018-10-27. en-US.
  10. News: A Net Stretched Taut Across a Court. 2015-07-31. Landfall Review Online. 2018-10-27. en-NZ.
  11. Web site: Anna Jackson . Read NZ Te Pou Muramura . 13 May 2024.
  12. Web site: Mem: 9369632. Jackson, Jones win Viva la Novella Books+Publishing. 2021-07-08. en-AU.
  13. News: Anna Jackson – Academy of New Zealand Literature. Academy of New Zealand Literature. 2018-10-27. en-US.

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