Anna Jackson

Anna Jackson has published five collections with Auckland University Press, most recently Thicket in 2011. A new collection, I, Clodia will be coming out from AUP in November 2014. Anna lives in Island Bay, Wellington, and teaches in the English department at Victoria University.

Jackson comments: ‘I have four hens I am very fond of. For more on my hens (an ode!) you can go down to the comments on the alexandrine page of Sonia Johnson’s very wonderful “A year in forms” blog. I followed the example of Shelley’s “Ode to a Skylark”, and used the alexandrine for the last line of each stanza. “Sabina, and the chain of friendship” is a rather more prosaic poem, conveying a theory about friendship I hope is useful. But, as I said in another poem once, a theory is not a poem! So, I added hens.’

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