Anna Jacobson

Tag: poetry

  • Endorsements for Anxious in a Sweet Store

    Endorsements for Anxious in a Sweet Store

    I am so grateful to have received beautiful endorsements for my second poetry collection Anxious in a Sweet Store, forthcoming in September 2023, with Upswell. You can read these endorsements (and also a pre-review) here.

  • Red Room Poetry Fellowship Shortlist 2022

    Red Room Poetry Fellowship Shortlist 2022

    I feel honoured to be shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2022, among so many poets I admire. Congratulations to: Shastra Deo, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Jessica Wilkinson, Jill Jones, Rozanna Lilley, Bonny Cassidy, Anne Casey, Heather Taylor Johnson and Audrey Molloy. Further details are over at Red Room Poetry here. My sincere thanks to the…

  • Memoir through Poetry Workshop, 26 July 2020

    Memoir through Poetry Workshop, 26 July 2020

    I’m very excited to be running an upcoming online ZOOM poetry workshop through the wonderful Avid Reader. Book your place here. Join me online on Sunday 26 July from 1pm-4pm, as we explore using our memories as a springboard for writing poetry. This poetry workshop will include a talk about my experience of writing memoir…

  • Poem in 2016 Short and Twisted Anthology, Celapene Press

    Poem in 2016 Short and Twisted Anthology, Celapene Press

    Wilt My mother keeps flowers until they wilt. Late at night she picks out the drooping stems— she tells me her mother did the same. My father brings home a bunch for Rosh Hashanah. By the third week, only one remains. Two months pass and we check it’s not a plastic one thrown in by…

  • ‘Word OCD’ Poem Published in Tincture Journal

    ‘Word OCD’ Poem Published in Tincture Journal

    My poem ‘Word OCD’ was selected for publication in Tincture Journal, Issue 13, Autumn 2016. Word OCD She collects words in snap-lock packets so they won’t go stale. Each word in its individual packet, each word precious. She runs her fingers over the plastic and stops; one of the snap-lock seals is half-open.   So she…

  • ‘Release’ Poem published in ‘One Page Brisbane’

    ‘Release’ Poem published in ‘One Page Brisbane’

    My poem ‘Release’ was selected for publication in One Page Brisbane, Volume 2: Issue 1, Heat and Waves 2015.   Release That afternoon in the Brisbane heat she jumped fully clothed from the timber bridge straight into water —   Splashed in the current and let the cool seep into her bones drag her down…

  • Shortlist – Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2015

    Shortlist – Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2015

    On Friday 28 August at the Queensland Poetry Festival, Anna was thrilled to be short-listed for the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her unpublished manuscript Crunchy, No Bruises. 

  • ‘River Food’ Poem Published in Cuttlefish Journal

    ‘River Food’ Poem Published in Cuttlefish Journal

    Anna’s poem ‘River Food’ was selected for publication in Edition 1 of Cuttlefish Journal (Sunline Press), 2015. Below is her poem.   River Food   sand drawings feast tiny silver fish water eats moonlight carries fish back to river carries river back to fish

  • Originality Prize – Deakin Leadership Centre’s International Poetry Competition

    Originality Prize – Deakin Leadership Centre’s International Poetry Competition

    Anna won the Originality Prize in the 2014 Deakin Leadership Centre International Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Follow’.

  • ‘Grandma’ Poem in SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.6

    ‘Grandma’ Poem in SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.6

    My Poem ‘Grandma’ was published in the SpeedPoets Zine Vol 13.6   Grandma Pawpaw tree out the front and mango tree out the back, we drove to your home on the coast.   On my last visit I found out you spoke up to eight different languages: English, French, Hungarian, and a smattering of Italian,…