Thanks to poet and writer Miriam Wei Wei Lo for reviewing my third full-length poetry book The emptied bridge. Miriam’s review is published on the Editor’s Desk reviews blog of leading literary magazine Westerly, which is based at the University of Western Australia.
Subject matter ranges from the deeply philosophical to the prosaic, written in a manner that continuously calls into question the division between the two.
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Observe the irony of those last two lines, which deftly insert art back into the mundane landscape of suburban Perth.
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Jackson’s poetry oscillates between the pared-back zen of aphorism or haiku and the longer ragged line of free verse. There is a lot of experimentation: long lines, short lines; regular stanzas, irregular stanzas; formal verse, informal verse; metaphor, pataphor. This is in keeping with the wide-ranging interests and concerns of the poet …
Read Miriam’s review in Westerly
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