This page and the book are copyright © Janet Jackson 2009. Book cover designed by Raymond Grenfell.

'Coracle' (first published 2009 by the author; ISBN 978-0-646-50875-7) 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.

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'll post it anywhere on Earth. 25 Australian dollars, including postage.

Use the buttons to order and pay securely with Paypal (by credit card, from your bank account, etc). You don't need a Paypal account to do this.

To arrange payment methods other than Paypal please email me.

I'm also interested in swapping copies of the book for interesting books or music that I don't already have. These need not be new. Please email me to talk about this.

Coracle is available in bookshops, including the following:

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, Readings St Kilda, Polyester (Fitzroy), Brunswick Street Bookstore (Fitzroy).

Adelaide: Unibooks, Experimental Arts Foundation, Dymocks, Imprints, Mary Martin's, 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.