Tag: poetry
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2024 Poetry Shortlist Woollahra Digital Literary Award
I am shortlisted in the poetry category of the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. You can read my poem ’23 Vignettes on the Rental Crisis’ that was published in Island Online and vote in the Readers’ Choice Award.
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Thank you for supporting my work
Thank you to the beautiful Pascalle Burton for helping me launch Anxious in a Sweet Store at Avid Reader on Sunday 29 October 2023. Thank you to everyone who came to Avid Reader, to my special mentor and editor Felicity Plunkett and my wonderful publisher Terri-ann White at Upswell Publishing. Thank you to my family and friends.…
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Book launches for Anxious in a Sweet Store
You are welcome to watch the accessible online launch for Anxious in a Sweet Store that premiered on 23 September 2023.
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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.
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When Dreams Turn Archaeological
Thank you to poet and academic Dr Jane Frank for interviewing me and writing a paper about my dream-inspired poetry and video art. ‘When dreams turn archaeological: the poetic dreamscapes of Anna Jacobson’ is freely available to view in Text.
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Anxious in a Sweet Store
I’m excited to announce that Anxious in a Sweet Store, my second illustrated poetry collection, will be published in September 2023, with thanks to Upswell. Thank you to the incredible Felicity Plunkett for mentoring me on this project. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its…
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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…
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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…
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Poetry Mural
On Saturday May 18 2019, as a collaboration between Queensland Poetry Festival and Brisbane Street Art Festival, five poets: Shastra Deo, Raelee Lancaster, Mindy Gill, Anisa Nandaula, and myself, created a temporary public poetry street art wall in the Valley’s Brunswick Street Mall. I created illustrations (including a cat for Shastra’s fabulous choose-your-own-adventure poem) and…
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2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Winner
For the past seven years I have been entering the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript and it feels very surreal and thrilling to have won it this year. Thank you to my wonderful family, friends and poetry mentors for your support and encouragement- it means so much. Thank you also…