Jane Skelton Jane Skelton i(A17347 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 Notes on the Dragon Year Jane Skelton , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dombóvár : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2024 2024;
1 1 y separately published work icon What the River Told Me Jane Skelton , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23862538 2021 selected work poetry

'Where is home? Where is my place? Would I feel at home in the place of my ancestors, or is my place this invaded, colonised country, where I’ve mostly lived? In these poems, I journey to Scotland, to the moors of Northumberland, seeking a genetic thread. I think I’ve found my people, ‘but it was only the whiskey’. Home again, through rivers, the lake and the sea. The dry bush, Queensland, are washed in images of water. I dig at the roots of colonisation, the blackbirder William Boyd, who left his mark on a coast that I love, a wild, quiet place with a violent history. A centre, a heart-place is identified, only to be devastated by fire and flood, the onslaught of climate change. Virginia Shepherd’s illustrations, her strange primordial fish, are a pause, a counterpoint, a reflection on nature and transience.' (Publication summary)

1 The Lake Inside Jane Skelton , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Flying Foxes Jane Skelton , Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2014 11447895 2014 single work short story

'The story follows the narrator’s attempts to deal with the numerous responsibilities that he has, all the while admiring the flying foxes that seem to have followed them throughout their lives.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 2 y separately published work icon Lives of the Dead Jane Skelton , Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2013 6029288 2013 selected work short story

'In this short story collection, travellers on highways and trains are preoccupied with the lives of the dead, with lost children or with parents. A woman searches a suburban deadland for her missing mother. A rural family struggles on a land that fails to sustain them. A young man’s attempt to leave the strictures of family life ends in violence.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 The Stones Jane Skelton , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Things That Are Found in Trees & Other Stories 2012; (p. 125-140)
1 The Cradle Arm of Strangers Jane Skelton , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 32 no. 2 2006; (p. 133-140)
1 Before the Wave Jane Skelton , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 184 2006; (p. 28-34)
1 Looking After Cecily Jane Skelton , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 31 no. 1 2005; (p. 120-124)
1 Menace Jane Skelton , 2004 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 22 2004; (p. 113-119)
1 Wild Cattle Jane Skelton , 2001 single work short story
— Appears in: Literature and Aesthetics , November vol. 11 no. 2001; (p. 37-39)
1 The Lives of the Dead Jane Skelton , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland Express : An Online Journal of Australian Writing , no. 1 1999;
1 Out of Beef City i "up hot breathe highway / jewel cars / pig-dogs on utes taste", Jane Skelton , 1996 single work poetry
— Appears in: HOBO Poetry Magazine , March no. 8 1996; (p. 50-51)
1 Under the House Jane Skelton , 1995 single work short story
— Appears in: Idiom 23 , November vol. 8 no. 1 1995; (p. 66)
1 Empty Rooms Jane Skelton , 1988 single work short story
— Appears in: Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988; (p. 89-90)
1 The Fool Jane Skelton , 1988 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , no. 23 1988; (p. 68-76)
1 At the Fence Jane Skelton , 1986 single work short story
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer/Autumn no. 25/26 1986; (p. 92-96)
1 Beer Guts and High Round Bellies Jane Skelton , 1985 single work short story
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 11 no. 1 1985; (p. 121-125)
X