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. 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
- 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
- The Bed-making Competition (2018)
References
- ^ "Anna Jackson - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "Anna Jackson - poetryarchive.org". www.poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ Kemp, Jan; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Anna Jackson, 2007". Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Publications - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Scudder, Erin (2017). "Dear Thief: Anna Jackson's The Gas Leak". Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) (35:2): 131–150. JSTOR 90018328.
- ^ "NZ Books - Pukapuka Aotearoa review: Pasture and Flock". Radio New Zealand. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Noted. "Thicket by Anna Jackson review - The Listener". Noted. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Review of Thicket" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Review Short: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits". Cordite Poetry Review. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "A Net Stretched Taut Across a Court". Landfall Review Online. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Anna Jackson". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Mem: 9369632. "Jackson, Jones win Viva la Novella | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Anna Jackson – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
External links
- https://www.anzliterature.com/member/anna-jackson/
- http://www.annajackson.nz
- http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/authors-a-z/anna-jackson.html
- "Interview with Anna Jackson in Lumiere". Lumiere.
- "Powerful collections from NZ Poets - Otago Daily Times". Otago Daily Times.
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- 1970 Owen Leeming
- 1971 Margaret Scott
- 1972 C. K. Stead
- 1973 James McNeish
- 1974 Janet Frame
- 1975 David Mitchell
- 1976 Michael King
- 1977 Barry Mitcalfe
- 1978 Spiro Zavos
- 1979 Philip Temple
- 1980 Marilyn Duckworth
- 1981 Lauris Edmond
- 1982 Michael Jackson
- 1983 Allen Curnow
- 1984 Rowley Habib
- 1985 Michael Gifkins
- 1986 Michael Harlow
- 1987 Russell Haley
- 1988 Louis Johnson
- 1989 Lloyd Jones
- 1990 Lisa Greenwood
- 1991 Nigel Cox
- 1992 Maurice Gee
- 1993 Witi Ihimaera
- 1994 Vincent O’Sullivan
- 1995 Fiona Farrell
- 1996 Owen Marshall
- 1997 Roger Hall
- 1998 Maurice Shadbolt
- 1999 Elizabeth Knox
- 2000 Stephanie Johnson
- 2001 Catherine Chidgey
- 2002 Jenny Bornholdt
- 2003 Tessa Duder
- 2004 Bill Manhire
- 2005 Ian Wedde
- 2006 Fiona Kidman
- 2007 Stuart Hoar
- 2008 Damien Wilkins
- 2009 Jenny Pattrick
- 2010 Ken Duncum
- 2011 Chris Price
- 2012 Justin Paton
- 2013 Greg McGee
- 2014 Mandy Hager
- 2015 Anna Jackson
- 2016 Kate Camp
- 2017 Carl Nixon
- 2019 Paula Morris
- 2020 Sue Wootton
- 2023 Charlotte Grimshaw