Jini Maxwell Jini Maxwell i(12861952 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Where It Lives i "Fly the totem of the rabbit", Jini Maxwell , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 252 2023; (p. 68)
1 Thirteen Ways of Watching Dr Phil with You i "Today on Dr Phil, we are identical twins. You have a fetish for clowns, and I have a phobia of clowns. We live together for some reason in a city where clowns are readily available.", Jini Maxwell , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 September no. 110 2023;
1 Wild Geese i "Today my laptop registers like an organ", Jini Maxwell , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 249 2023; (p. 64-65)
Author's note: With apologies to Mary Oliver
1 Summer Animal i "This summer I can feel myself turning back into an animal. I wake up early and seek", Jini Maxwell , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2022;
1 Carapace i "so the damp starts to cut into the brickwork that insulates the flat", Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 [Playing the Man Not the Ball] Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Hospital Poem i "someone is always taking up where someone else ended. It is", Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Get Ready with Me i "in the record of another time zone", Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 How to Love Atlas i "Light filters through the curtain", Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Lazarus i "I see it seemed obvious: four days, and some man cups", Jini Maxwell , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Get Ready with Me : 6 Poems by Jini Maxwell Jini Maxwell , 2020 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 97 and 98 2020;
1 Learning i "There is a very fine line", Jini Maxwell , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 237 2019; (p. 59)
1 Public Libraries Vanessa Giron , Jini Maxwell , Eileen Chong , Sumudu Samarawickrama , Ruby Pivet , Nathan Sentance , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 42 2019; (p. 101-106)

'We live in an era of hostile architecture, disinformation, and privatisation. Our right to exist in public freely is increasingly compromised. In 2018, Forbes ran an op-ed suggesting that libraries could be replaced by Amazon. In the same week, Omar Sakr wrote a twitter thread celebrating the social, intellectual, and domestic role of Liverpool public library in his teenage years. When Vanessa Giron, the commissioning editor for this series, wrote a Brow by Numbers for TLB 39, she focussed on the increase in public library membership and patronage, and paradoxical decrease in staff and funding on both a state and federal level. It seems we need public information and safe spaces for congregation and learning now more than ever—but how ‘public’ can these public spaces be when they are entrenched in the logics of colonialism and capitalism? Are these spaces truly free, if they propound colonialist narratives under the guise of objectivity. Are they truly public, if they are inaccessible to those who would benefit most from them?

'We asked five writers to consider the public, personal, and structural role that public libraries play in our society. The responses from our writers were generous, ranging from writing from poetic, to academic, to critical, to playful. For some, public libraries provided access, safety, education, or entertainment. For others, they may symbolise hierarchies that privilege particular narratives over others. They conjured memories, provocations, and projections about the future of public information and public space.

'We hope this series provides, if not answers, a richer understanding of the stakes and terms of the issue at hand.' (Introduction)

1 A Clown Car Named Desire i "spending a summer afternoon eating a box of cherries in bed", Jini Maxwell , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , May no. 91 2019;
1 Bay City Plaza i "six am: sea intervening fog.", Jini Maxwell , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 87 2018;
1 The Closet Opens by Degrees i "This is the year I make reparations", Jini Maxwell , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 84 2018;
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