Jill Jones Poetry - & other writing

About Jill Jones Other writing Links to Jill on the web _______________________________ Jill Jones' books: The Mask & the Jagged Star Flagging Down Time The Book of Possibilities Screens Jets Heaven Struggle & Radiance Broken/Open Uncollected poetry

"poetry of unsettling mystery and beauty. ... passionate and parodic at once, as cool as all get out."
The Australian

"Hers is a poetry that crosses poetic margins and borders, not cutting them or transgressing, but building bridges and points of access and communication, forming a whole, prescient and often deeply moving experience."
Poetry International Web

"... redemptive in an entirely secular way, offering moments of existential clarity in unsentimental material observation. Jones' work is also darkly humorous, cleaving advanced anti-romanticism to poetry's struggle with boundaries between language, self and the world. This makes her work both precisely personal and sharply social"
Jacket

"her vision is impeccable. Like other contemporary poets liberated from bardic pronouncement, Jones invites the reader to share in the speculative processes of discovery ..."
Heat

"one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Australian poetry"
Australian Women's Book Review

"a singular voice, able to transform and give significance to the minute details of daily life."
Christchurch Star

"[a] reputation as one of those poets who is beginning to move Australian poetry into new directions - towards a greater trust than ever in the poet's own responses, a quietening of judgemental implications, and to find ways of exploring the rhapsodic."
Southerly