About the Author:
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize. She has worked as a journalist, book editor and public servant. In 1995 she co-edited the anthology A Parachute of Blue (Round Table Publications).
Review:
Urban evocations both heartfelt and gritty. -- Alan Wearne * The Age * One of the most exciting voices in contemporary Australian poetry ... a rich layering of image and idea, an archaeology of fiercely intellectual, and poignantly vulnerable insight and juxtaposition. -- Rose Lucas * Australian Women's Book Review * One of those poets who is beginning to move Australian poetry into new directions - towards a greater trust than ever in the poet's own responses, a quietening of judgemental implications, and a desire to be able to articulate positive emotion, to find ways of exploring the rhapsodic. -- Martin Langford * Southerly * Jones' work is so easy on the eye and senses, you wonder what tricks she has just slipped through your inattentive gaps, because you know she has disturbed you in the most devious sort of way. Her style is one of the waiting thunderstorm amidst the tight stasis of before-rain. -- Bev Braune * Australian Women's Book Review *
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