This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • A monkey …

    A monkey who lived in the zoo got terribly bored with the view. There was nothing to eat. There was no-one on heat. So he played with his shit, as you do. (First published in BlazeVox) Read more

  • Perth Poetry and Permission to Be Bad: Jackson interviewed by ACT Writers Centre

    As part of my 2013 tour I was interviewed for Capital Letters, the ACT Writers Centre blog. Read more

  • “lemon oil”, poetry book by Jackson, reviewed in Cordite by Ray Briggs

    “lemon oil”, poetry book by Jackson, reviewed in Cordite by Ray Briggs

    “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.” Read more

  • love

    Adelaide, 6 September 2013 On the day before an election a baby goos in a pram. His mother says ‘having a baby makes me love the human race’. I wish there was a mother I could vote for Read more

  • playing

    a violinist outside the Gallery playing all day long Read more

  • there

    You want to know my deepest darkest secret? Don't ask me at a table of blithe people — ask me with the walls up around us and the doors locked. My deepest darkest secret is that I am a poet. Therefore I am allowed no secrets but to tell them I must make them into art. Read more