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Rozana for Palestine are having an afternoon of music, kai (food), poetry, and cultural exhibits. Family-friendly, all welcome. Poetry lineup: Liz Breslin, Jackson, Rakibul Hasan Khan Read more
7pm Wednesday 9 April 2025. New Athenaeum Theatre, 23 The Octagon, Dunedin 9016. Free entry. Drinks and snacks available. Read more
2 guest features (one including Zoom) plus various poetry open mikes in Perth, Western Australia and in Auckland and Hamilton, New Zealand. Read more
Hear my new poems and old favourites, plus local and international poets in open mike. Everyone’s welcome to listen or share. Read more
“[Jackson’s] wager is that poetry, as mediator of spirituality and science, could provide deeper understanding about existing in a world of ecological and postcolonial turmoil. It seems to have paid off in this striking volume of work.” Read more
“Subject matter ranges from the deeply philosophical to the prosaic, written in a manner that continuously calls into question the division between the two. … Observe the irony of those last two lines, which deftly insert art back into the mundane landscape of suburban Perth.” Read more