Jane Jervis-Read Jane Jervis-Read i(A112265 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 'With Complexity’ : Growing up with Dorothy Hewett Jane Jervis-Read , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Looking for the Soft Spot Jane Jervis-Read , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 77 no. 3 2018; (p. 35)

'Biographies OF Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) usually include a short section like this: In 1944 she married communist lawyer Lloyd Davies and had a son who died of leukemia at age three. The marriage ended in divorce in 1948, following Hewett's departure to Sydney to live with Les Flood, a boilermaker, with whom she had three sons over five years'. That was from Wikipedia. It's just a few sentences, a handful of facts notable for many reasons, working backwards: the quick succession of births, the shift from a middle-class; marriage into a working-class one, the death of a child. He was her first child, named Clancy after the Aboriginal activist Clancy McKenna. Clancy, the child, was born in Perth and died tragically in Melbourne in 1950. The thing that snippet from Wikipedia doesn't make clear—that few biographies explore further than the bare facts-is that when Hewett left Davies, she left Clancy too. His sickness and death came the following year.' (Introduction)
 

1 More Than Enough Jane Jervis-Read , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2016;
1 Luck and Trouble Jane Jervis-Read , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , August 2014;
1 Freshwater Dreaming Jane Jervis-Read , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 3 2013; (p. 110-112)
1 1 y separately published work icon Midnight Blue and Endlessly Tall Jane Jervis-Read , New South Wales : Seizure , 2013 6042601 2013 single work novella

'When Jessica, a recently divorced mental-health carer, meets her new patient, Eloise, their lives quickly become entangled. The boundaries of their roles begin to dissolve and questions from the past are uncovered, revealing the fractured histories that brought them together.'

Source: Seizure (http://seizureonline.com/shop/midnight-blue-and-endlessly-tall/). (Sighted: 12/6/2013)

1 Hartington Street Jane Jervis-Read , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Inscribe , Winter no. 6 2012; (p. 16-18)
1 Little People Jane Jervis-Read , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , 30 July no. 207.5 2012;
1 Jesus’ Desert Odyssey The Desert and the Dog Jane Jervis-Read , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 21 October vol. 21 no. 20 2011; (p. 12-14)
1 If This Baby Dies i "If this baby dies I will find myself a new one. One who", Jane Jervis-Read , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verandah , no. 25 2010; (p. 21)
1 The Dam i "There is a woman at the bottom of our dam. Her blood makes the water black. I know it", Jane Jervis-Read , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , April no. 32 2010;
1 A Cuckoo Flew Into My Lover's Head Jane Jervis-Read , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 23 2006; (p. 2-3) Going Down Swinging , no. 40 2019; (p. 171-172)
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