Proximity: the poet Jackson. Get uncomfortably close.
Fieralingue, Italy:
Breastfeeding a newborn
Come home
Dream 40
I am your sunlight
Stick to the truth
The fisherwoman
Would you like some soup?
Windows. Marginata, no. 5, WA State Literature Centre & WA Writers Centre, Perth.
PixelPapers, Perth:
Fire
For the cool one
Imagine being the singer’s wife
Into the moshpit
WordThirst, Perth:
Don’t go there
Hasp
Lip-prints
Storm/Sight
Why I
Yet not his sister
Proximity. Collected poems online. Thepoetjackson.com / proximitypoetry.com, established 2003. Archived by the National Library of Australia.
WordThirst, Perth:
Bald and Hairy
Instrument
You again
PixelPapers, Perth:
But
Samantha 7 weeks
The fisherwoman
The neon name
To a word
An Endless Afternoon, Lioness Press, Perth, 2000:
14 weeks
A female poem
Breastfeeding a newborn
Callan is born
Samantha 7 weeks
Sling
What it feels like (on a good day)
The West Australian, 1993:
My brother is dead
New baby
Truth Eyes. Heartland, no. 4, edited by Steve Husband and Dene Vilkins, Queensland, September 1992.
Aversion, no. 3, Fremantle, Winter 1992.
Untitled (I’m the daughter)
Adam
Observation Winter 1990. Wasteland, edited by Steven Murphy and Michael Scammell, vol. 2, no. 1, Australia, 1993.
A female poem. Mattoid, Deakin University, 1991.
Night Walk. Raven, vol. 1, no. 1, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1990.
Billboard Girl. Demented Bliss, Henry Kendall Poetry Award, 1990.
My first full-length poetry book Coracle was reviewed by Shane McCauley in Indigo literary journal, issue 4, Spring 2009. Indigo was edited by Donna Ward and published by Out of the Asylum Writers Group, Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia.
From the opening lines of the first poem, the reader is introduced to a powerful, resonant and poignantly moving voice … Jackson’s poetry is lean and purposeful … There are many stunning poems here, wry and wistful, love poems with a heartbreaking absence of sentimentality, terrific poems of place and observation and understanding … Coracle is unreservedly recommended.
