Coracle: Selected poems 1991-2007
‘Coracle’ is my first full-length collection. It contains 94 of my readers’ and audiences’ favourite poems, presented in a sequence that is in itself a poem. Read from front to back it will surely mess with your mind. (First published 2009 by the author; ISBN 978-0-646-50875-7.)
I’ll post it anywhere on Earth. 25 Australian dollars, including postage.
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Some readers say:
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.
Shane McCauley in
indigo
If words were chemicals, the potency packed into CORACLE would need a
stronger container than paper and ink, page and stanza. Janet Jackson’s
voice is immediate, the sensations intense, the experiences intelligently
informed by free association, by her sense of the absurd and a poignant
sensibility. To paraphrase her, this is speech stripped to the waist;
imagination which played it scary when aroused by the urge to taste life
fully. Her expression is as contemporary, individual and vivid as a
digital video and, like an online broadcast, it seeks to straddle the
divide between personal and public worldviews. This collection should
carry a warning: Your perception will be altered.
Annamaria Weldon
I’m also interested in swapping copies for interesting books or music. Please contact me to talk about this.
Coracle is available in independent bookshops:
- Perth: Planet Books (Mt Lawley), State Library Shop, Oxford Street Books (Leederville), Mill Point Caffe Bookshop (South Perth), Another Chapter (Mundaring), Mundaring Arts Centre.
- Melbourne: Collected Works (Swanston Street), Readings Carlton, Polyester (Fitzroy), Brunswick Street Bookstore (Fitzroy).
- Adelaide: Unibooks, Experimental Art Foundation, Mary Martin’s (Rundle Street), Mostly Books (Mitcham).
Don’t have money or swapsies?
Ask your public library to get it for you!
ISBN 978-0-646-50875-7. A few libraries have it already.
