Dr Jill Jones

• Biography/ Background

  Jill Jones’ work has been widely published in Australia as well as in a number of print magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain and India. She is also widely published online. In 2007 she was featured at the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Polish, French, Italian and Spanish.

  In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her third book, The Book of Possibilities (Hale & Iremonger), was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards.

  Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (NSW Premier's Literary Awards).

  Her latest books are The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher and Wattmann 2014), Ash is Here, So are Stars (Walleah Press, 2012) and a chapbook, Senses Working Out (Vagabond Press, 2012); a sixth full length work, Dark Bright Doors, (Wakefield Press, 2010), which was short-listed for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize; Broken/Open (Salt, 2005), which was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize; Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005) poems written in response to paintings and a handwritten book; and Speak Which (Meritage Press, 2007).

  She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of cross-artform projects. She was a co-convenor of The Whole Voice, the second Australian national conference on poetry, held in Sydney in 1995. She served as a judge for the 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, was a co-judge for the inaugural Broadway Poetry Prize in 2001 and was a member of the Sydney Writers Festival committee in 1996. She was a co-founder, with Laurin McKinnon, of BlackWattle Press, and in 1995 she co-edited (with Judith Beveridge and Louise Wakeling) A Parachute of Blue, an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. With Michael Farrell, she co-edited a selection of Australian love poetry for a 2003 edition of Slope online magazine. She has been a film reviewer, journalist, book editor and arts administrator. For nearly seven years, she was Program Manager for the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

• Publications

  Books

  The Beautiful Anxiety, Puncher and Wattmann, 2014

  Ash is Here, So are Stars, Walleah Press, 2012

  Senses Working Out, Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2012

  Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2010
  

  Questions for Light, with images by Bruno Leti, Carlton, 2008 (artist book designed and published by Bruno Leti, limited edition of 22)

  The Romance of Death, with Annette Willis to accompany photography exhibition at Horsham Regional Gallery, 2008 (artist book)

  Speak Which, Meritage Press, San Francisco and St Helens, 2007 (hand-written mini book)

  Broken/Open, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2005

  Fold Unfold, Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2005 (chapbook)

  Where the Sea Burns, Picaro Press, Warners Bay, 2004 (chapbook)

  Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries, Wild Honey Press, Bray, 2004 (chapbook)

  Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2002

  The Book of Possibilities, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1997

  Flagging Down Time, Five Islands Press, Wollongong, 1993

  The Mask and the Jagged Star, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992

  Publications in 2011

  Poems in anthologies:
  The Best Australian Poems 2011, ed. John Tranter, Black Inc Press, Melbourne, 2011

  Poems in Periodicals:

  Australian Poetry Journal
  Blackbox Manifold (UK)
  Cordite Poetry Review
  Cottonmouth
  Foam:e
  Foma and Fontanelles (Ireland)
  FourW
  Island
  Mascara Literary Review
  Otoliths
  Overland
  Rabbit
  Truck (USA)
  The Saturday Age
  The Weekend Australian

  Publications in 2010

  Books:
  Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2010

  Poems In anthologies:
  The Best Australian Poems 2010, ed. Robert Adamson, Black Inc Press, Melbourne, 2010

  Publications in 2009

  Poems in anthologies:
  The Best Australian Poems 2009, ed. Robert Adamson, Black Inc Press, 2009
  Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, General Editor, Nicholas Jose, Allen & Unwin, 2009
  Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986-2008, eds Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse, Puncher and Wattman, 2009
  Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788 – 2008, ed. Martin Langford, Puncher and Wattman, 2009
  The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, Penguin, 2009

  Poems in periodicals:
  Blue Dog
  The Famous Reporter
  foam:e
  Heat
  Island
  nthposition
  Otoliths
  Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
  Softblow

  Publications in 2008

  Poems in anthologies:

  The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, ed John Kinsella, Penguin Books, 2008
  The Best Australian Poetry 2008, ed. David Brooks, University of Queensland Press, 2008

  The Best Australian Poems 2008, ed. Peter Rose, Black Inc Press, 2008

  The Second Hay(na)ku Anthology, eds Jean Vengua and Mark Young, Meritage Press (USA) and X-Pressed (Finland) (2008)

  
  

  Poems in periodicals:
  

  The Australian Literary Review

  The Australian

  Overland

  Australian Book Review

  Meanjin

  
  

  Interview:

  E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Final XIV Interviews + One, ed by Tom Beckett, Otoliths Press, 2008.

  
  

   

• Media Expertise

  Categories	Arts & Culture, Literature & Publishing
  Expertise	poetry; creative writing; Australian literature; publishing; digital writing
  Notes	Won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (NSW Premier's Literary Awards) for Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, 2003. Won the Mary Gilmore Award for 'The Mask and the Jagged Star', 1993.

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