Jill Jones: 2012

Jill Jones is an Australian poet who has published six full-length books of poetry including Dark Bright Doors (2010), Broken/Open (2005), Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems (2002), The Book of Possibilities (1997), Flagging Down Time (1993) and The Mask and the Jagged Star (1992, published by Christchurch publisher Hazard Press as part of a trans-Tasman series). She has also published chapbooks including Senses Working Out (Vagabond Press, 2012) and Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries (Wild Honey Press, Eire, 2004). Her major awards include the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2003 for Screens Jets Heaven and the Mary Gilmore Award 1993 for The Mask and the Jagged Star. Her work is represented in major anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, and has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Czech and Spanish. She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis and other visual and sound artists on multi-media projects. She is a member of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. She has stayed at the Centre in 2010 and in 2012, both times taking part in events organised by the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre through the University of Auckland.