This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
Audio and video readings
Performances and readings of Jackson’s poetry and writing
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Watch a performance of my poem ‘q finger’ filmed during my 2012 writers residency at Mattie Furphy House for the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. Read more
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Here’s a blast from the past: me performing my poem Someone at the Dan O’Connell Hotel, Melbourne, on 29 September 2012. Read more
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13 February 2020 As Parliament sits in its hilltop house, we spread our banners out on the steps: CLIMATE EMERGENCY. PAUSE BREATHE LISTEN ACT. We meditate there for two hours. Traffic noise like thick smoke rises from the city below. I hear you say: some day. Some day, when all these cars are electric, the Read more
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To stay warm, I burn living and fossil wood, dry leaves and sticks of dung I smoke my lungs to black lace For eons cool Earth has tried to chill me out as I sit at the firepit in my charcoal clothes If I asked, she’d let me be the wheel in her water, the Read more
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This is my favourite radio interview so far. I really enjoyed having this unscripted chat in October 2012 on Melbourne community radio station 3CR with poet Koraly Dimitriadis. Read along with the poems Read more
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This is my first-ever radio interview. In early 2008, poet Peter Jeffery invited me to come on his World of Art program on Perth community radio station 6EBA. Read along with the poems Read more
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