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

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • “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

  • respect

    yesterday I said it shouldn’t be given freely it should be earned but today I think when I meet a new person I should start with respect and let disrespect be earned First published in KSP Writers Centre Newsletter Read more

  • lemon oil

    lemon oil

    Paperback book, 120 pages. “The pressing, convincing voice of these poems drives you to read fast and then catch your breath.” “In this dream / I heal the cuts / his bareness / has left / all over me // with tart, sparse, / sweet, spreading / lemon oil …” Only NZD $15 + postage. Read more