Poetry book. Paperback, 120 pages.
lemon oil is my second full-length poetry book. Theme: bad love! But not bad love poems.
Only NZD $15 + postage.
To get your copy of lemon oil, please contact me for shipping and payment details. Copies are also available through the Australian public library system.
What readers say
The narrative voice in Jackson’s “lemon oil” speaks with humour, verve and curiosity, inviting the reader into a conversation about sex, identity politics, industrialism, environmentalism and what to do in Melbourne.
Ray Briggs in Cordite
The pressing, convincing voice of these poems drives you to read fast and then catch your breath, to search for answers and encounter love. Jackson’s second collection is fiery, bold and brave — it unravels everyday stories and raw encounters in a poetic and potent play of language and lemon oil. I don’t know of any other Australian poet who is writing with the combined verve and craft of Jackson.
Claire Potter
Sample poems
lemon oil
In this dream
I heal the cuts
his bareness
has left
all over me
with tart, sparse,
sweet, spreading
lemon oil,
the same soft stings
with which I nurture
your smooth
unlacquered
fret-slit
rosewood
fingerboard
From The fear of ricochet
I dreamed you left me in the blank room
with some follower or child or dependent,
with the gun,
with the blank walls,
with the echoing surfaces,
with the fear of ricochet,
with
with (say it!)
We knew we ranted
and your heckler interrupted us,
tracing the collarbone
We know not your heckler,
cannot know,
though both of us
wish to know
We realise damned well that we
are not prophets
not monks
not even advertisers
And neither shall we
And yet you can …
you all can …
Only NZD $15 + postage.
To get your copy of lemon oil, please contact me for shipping and payment details. Copies are also available through the Australian public library system.
Published in 2013 by Mulla Mulla Press. ISBN 9780987517005. Cover design by Coral Carter.
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