Anna Jackson. Courtesy New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre.
Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Jackson earned an M.A. at the University of Auckland, and a D. Phil. at the University of Oxford.[1]
She has lectured at the University of Otago, at the University of Auckland, and at Oxford, on film studies, Victorian literature, Renaissance drama, 20th-century literature, drama on stage and screen, modern poetry, academic writing skills and medicine and literature. She works in the department of English at the University of Auckland.[2]
Her poetry originally appeared in book form in AUP New Poets 1 (Auckland University Press, 1999). She has since published several collections of poetry and a book of poetic collaboration with Dunedin poet, Jenny Powell-Chalmers.[1]
She has authored and co-edited numerous works of literary criticism, guest-edited New Zealand magazines, and contributed everything from essays on children’s literature and poetics, to short stories and book reviews, for journals and anthologies in New Zealand and elsewhere.[1]
Recognition[]
- 1999 - Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary
- 2001 - Waikato University Writer in Residence
- 2002 - Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry shortlist) for The Pastoral Kitchen
- 2012 - New Zealand Post Book Awards (poetry finalist) for Thicket
Except where noted, award information courtesy The Poetry Archive.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- AUP New Poets 1 (by Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander, & Anna Jackson). Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.
- The Long Road to Teatime. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000.
- The Pastoral Kitchen. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001.
- Catullus for Children. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
- Locating the Madonna (by Anna Jackson & Jenny Powell). Wellington: Seraph Press, 2004.
- The Gas Leak. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006.
- Thicket. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011.
- I Clodia, and other portraits. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2014.
- Pasture and Flock: New and selected poems. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2018.
Non-fiction[]
- Diary poetics : Form and style in writers' diaries, 1915-1962. London: Routledge, 2009; New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Juvenile literature and British society, 1850-1950: The age of adolescence (with Charles Ferrall). London & New York: Routledge, 2010.
- A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in young adult fiction (by Jackson, Geoffrey Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer, & Kathryn Walls). Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011.
Edited[]
- My Friendships with Famous People. Dunedin, NZ: Postmortem Productions / Super 8, 1992.
- E-mailing Venus: Translations of poets from Sappho onwards. (edited by Diana Harris & Jackson). Auckland: Venus Press, 1998.
- The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the borders (edited by Jackson, Karen Coats, & Roderick McGillis). London & New York: Routledge, 2008.
- Floating Worlds: Essays on contemporary New Zealand fiction (edited by Jackson & Jane Stafford). Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.
- Truth and Beauty: Verse biography in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand(edited with Angelina Sbroma and Helen Rickerby). Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2016.
- New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable lands. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Anna Jackson (b. 1967), The Poetry Archive. Web, Jan. 29, 2014.
- ↑ Anna Jackson, Seeing Voices, New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. Web, Jan. 29, 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Anna Jackson, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 16, 2019.
External links[]
- Poems
- Anna Jackson at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (profile & poem, "Kitchen Drain")
- "Margo, or Margaux"
- Anna Jackson at the Poetry Foundation
- Jackson in Cordite Poetry Review: "Life Seems to be Enclosed in Steel and Nickel," "Frank O'Hara for Charles"
- Audio / video
- Books
- Anna Jackson at Amazon.com
- Publications by Anna Jackson at Victoria University Wellington
- Anna Jackson at New Zealand Literature File
- About
- Jackson, Anna at the New Zealand Book Council.
- Dr. Anna Jackson at Victoria University of Wellington
- Jessica Wilkinson interviews Anna Jackson at Cordite Poetry Review
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