photo is by Craig Birch-Morunga

Jackson reads six poems and talks poetry

Jackson lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. In 2021, they moved to Aotearoa from Australia, where Recent Work Press published their fourth poetry collection, A coat of ashes, based on their award-winning PhD thesis. In New Zealand, their poems have appeared in takahē, Turbine | Kapohau, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook and other journals. They are on the committees of the New Zealand Poetry Society and Dunedin’s monthly poetry reading group Octagon Collective.

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‘Binding cradle — cradle bound’, Salvador Dalí (translated by Julian Levy) from Surrealist Love Poems, ed Mary Ann Caws, Tate Publishing 2002

‘A Song About the Moon’, Good Looks, Bill Manhire, Auckland University Press, 1982

‘Inheritance’, Georgia Agnew, in There are Rabbits Here, NZ Poetry Society, 2025 (poetry and haiku from the 2025 International Competition of the New Zealand Poetry Society | Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa)

‘The voice of Jackson’ from The emptied bridge, Mulla Mulla Press, 2019

‘A Coat of Ashes’ and ‘Wake’ from A coat of ashes, Recent Work Press, 2019