Reviews

As a poetry editor, one doesn’t often get reviews. Last year I was engaged by poet and memoirist Tineke Van der Eecken to edit and restructure the manuscript of her first full-length collection of poems. I also acted as an online literary assistant, sending out submissions for Tineke. With my help, her poems were published in several journals, and one was highly commended in a competition. In August, Tineke wrote an article about our collaboration on her blog.

My poems appear this year in Tamba, The Lake, Grieve, Burrow, as well as Creatrix and Poetry d’Amour. I cannot recommend Jackson more as a poetry editor — check her out! And guess what: the opening poem to the manuscript is shortlisted for the Ros Spencer Poetry Award.

Perhaps I can be your poetry editor, too! Learn more about me and my poetry editing services here.

Here’s a selfie of me having fun one evening creating a satisfying sequence from Tineke’s poems. Check out her highly-commended poem My weeds.

Thanks to Miriam Wei Wei Lo for reviewing my third full-length poetry book The emptied bridge in Westerly magazine.

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Pascalle Burton has written an enlightening and insightful review of my book A coat of ashes.

[Jackson’s] wager is that poetry, as mediator of spirituality and science, could provide deeper understanding about existing in a world of ecological and postcolonial turmoil. It seems to have paid off in this striking volume of work.

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My second full-length poetry book lemon oil was reviewed in Cordite by R A Briggs.

The narrative voice in Jackson’s lemon oil speaks with humour, verve and curiosity, inviting the reader into a conversation about sex, identity politics, industrialism, environmentalism and what to do in Melbourne.

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