Summer Stung and Amazon
Published in Kaleidoscope, February, 2021.
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Winston
Published in Griffith Review 68, Getting On, May, 2020.
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Deleted Words and Dragonflies
Published in InDaily, March 18, 2020.
Well Versed 2: Anthology 2020 Audiobook Launch
Poetry selected for publication. Launched February, 2020.
New Poets 20
Alys Jackson’s debut collection of poems Wolf Ghosts was published in New Poets 20 alongside Julia Wakefield Houghton and Sharon Foulkes. Published by Friendly Street Poets. Edited by Steve Evans. Launched in November 2019.
Ideas
Published in The Mozzie, Volume 26, Issue 8 September 2018.
Bushfire Brumby
Awarded 2nd Prize in the Henry Lawson Festival of Arts, June 2018. Published in the Verse and Short Story Anthology, 2018.
Statue of Mercury in the Uffizi
Published in Underground Writers, Issue 21, February 2018
Published in The Wild Word, January 2018
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Muted
Published in Social Alternatives, Volume 36: 4 : 2017
Awarded Grenfell Henry Lawson Statuette for Prose, June 2017
‘This poem has both the grandeur and delicacy of an almost neoclassical, Augustan elegance – the verse is regular, well-paced and its perspective is both judicious and minutely insightful. It escapes both Romantic affect and ballad simplification. It’s a poem that “thinks” more than “feels”. This is wise, meditative, compelling poetry.’ David Gilbey, President of Booranga Writer’s Centre and author of Pachinko sunset (Island Press, 2016).
Published in Right Now, June 2017
To Drift in Sandstone Folds
Published in The Mozzie, Vol 25, Issue 4, June 2017
To Drift in Sandstone Folds reprinted below:
To Drift in Sandstone Folds
Soft-footed shadows creep in fossil shades.
Beneath the cliffs of Gariwerd the evening
Chill exhales in fractured, weathered glades.
Folded, tilted memories. Exposed and turning.
Our history shelved in countless volumes, etched
On rock – bound in earth. Sandstone pages
Cradling species crouched below cracked skin –
Chronicles of a planet’s fading ages.
Our past – where rock-kissed bones dance deep within.
Primordial oceans swell beneath our feet,
Burst in wind-split waves, and I am cast
In valleys where the past and present speak.
Of all the species will ours be the last?
Within still depths still jawless creatures leap –
Mineral shoals whose broken bodies turn,
And twist within their geologic tombs.
Deeper, Earth’s indifferent furnace burns,
And mountains writhe and rise in molten wombs.
Perhaps someday in death we too may rise,
Borne upon the backs of mountains. Raised,
To drift in sandstone folds.
Immortalized.
Published in the Grenfell Henry Lawson Anthology of Short Stories and Poetry, 2009. Phineas McGonagall received First Prize in the category, humorous verse.
Children’s and Humorous Verse:
A Trouble Shared
Published in Caterpillar Magazine, (Ireland) summer edition, 2019
You Can Lead a Horse to Water
Published in Caterpillar Magazine, (Ireland) winter edition, 2017/2018
Red Sky at Night
Published in Caterpillar Magazine (Ireland), winter edition, 2017/2018
The River Goes to Sleep
Published on the Australian Children’s Poetry website, June 2017
The River Goes to Sleep reprinted below:
The River Goes to Sleep
Ripples leave their
Imprints on a soft and sandy rise,
Vines are dipping fingers while the
Evening winks her eyes;
Resting crimson ribbons round the river’s dusty sides
Published in the 2009 Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Poetry Anthology
© Alys Jackson 2018