Jennifer Harrison Jennifer Harrison i(A34391 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Liverpool, Merseyside,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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1 Finials Jennifer Harrison , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dombóvár : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2024 2024;
1 Grass Sonnets Jennifer Harrison , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dombóvár : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2024 2024;
1 China Painting i "awash with lime glaze", Jennifer Harrison , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 24-25)
1 Humour and Humanity : Jennifer Harrison Launches ‘Poetry of Home: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology’ Jennifer Harrison , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 38 no. 1 2023;

— Review of Poetry of Home : The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology 2023 anthology poetry

'Thank you to Liquid Amber Press for the invitation to launch this anthology – and to the editors Rose Lucas, Anne M. Carson and Reneé Pettitt-Schipp for such a wonderful job selecting the poems. It’s a long time since I’ve enjoyed reading an anthology so much and I’m still not sure if it is the thematic intrigue of writing about home that makes this book so appealing, or if this unique group of poets has come together so prismatically the place of home in our lives cannot be better illuminated. I’m rather sad that I won’t be able to mention each poet by name, or quote from their work, but please know that I value every single poem in this book. Congratulations everyone.' (Introduction)          

1 Birds i "birds flying in August . their wings flaring", Jennifer Harrison , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Science Write Now , no. 9 2023;
1 y separately published work icon Alice’s Shoe Julie Thorndyke , Jennifer Harrison (illustrator), Adelaide : MidnightSun , 2023 26024641 2023 single work picture book children's 'A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek...she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice slowly made her way back to life and became the first deafblind person in Australia to be educated. Her hated shoe was Alice’s first connection with the world of language as she learnt to sign.' (Publication summary) 
1 Tumult and Poise : Sarah Day’s Ninth Poetry Collection Jennifer Harrison , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 451 2023; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Slack Tide Sarah Day , 2022 selected work poetry
'This is Sarah Day’s ninth collection and one of her most thematically diverse to date. She brings to the poems a thoughtful mix of environmentalism (particularly the unruly yet quiet presence of Tasmania’s natural beauty), her British roots (some of the best poems in the collection refer to the poet’s grandmother’s incarceration in an asylum), and a teacher’s precision with free verse. The poems are not overly experimental in terms of lineation, metre, language, or punctuation, and yet freshness of perspective and authenticity arise inevitably from the poet’s liquid observational engagement with the world’s affairs, whether this be with landscape, the global pandemic, racism, or science (planetary, oceanographic, microscopic).' (Introduction)
1 Figurines Jennifer Harrison , 2022 prose
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss Volume 10 2022; (p. 48)
1 Local Astronomy i "We have our own dieback", Jennifer Harrison , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 120-121)
1 Heels on the Throat of Song : Exploring the Limits of Poetry’s Expressivity Jennifer Harrison , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 52-53)

— Review of Languish Marion Campbell , 2022 selected work poetry ; And to Ecstasy Marjon Mossammaparast , 2022 selected work poetry
1 Mandelbrot Set i "~ dots of colour points on a complex", Jennifer Harrison , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 14) Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 101)
1 More Than Holding On : New Poetry by Jelena Dinić and Jane Gibian Jennifer Harrison , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 43-44)

— Review of In the Room with the She Wolf Jelena Dinic , 2021 selected work poetry ; Beneath the Tree Line Jane Gibian , 2021 selected work poetry
'In an impressive first collection, the South Australian poet Jelena Dinić incorporates her Serbian heritage and memories of war-affected Yugoslavia into an Australian migration narrative of clear-sighted beauty. William Carlos Williams wrote in the introduction to Kora In Hell: Improvisations (1920): ‘Thus a poem is tough … solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.’ Although far from improvisational, Dinić’s poetry compositionally integrates both fragility and strength as it draws together diverse experiences of war trauma, cultural displacement, the petty administrative routines of immigration departments, a Malaysian writing fellowship, Australian icons (such as the rainwater tank), folklore, and bathing in the Adriatic Sea.' (Publication summary)
1 The Other Other Women Jennifer Harrison , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry d'Amour 2021 2021; (p. 40)
1 Details and Disorientation : A Language to Justify Thought Jennifer Harrison , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 48-49)

— Review of Whirlwind Duststorm John Hawke , 2021 selected work poetry

'In the epigraph to this collection, a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre on Edmund Husserl suggests that we are entering a poetic that challenges the possibility of conscious knowledge; consciousness is itself a maelstrom that extrudes the intruder and has ‘no inside’. What follows is both a refutation and embracement of this assertion in chatoyant language that is as thoughtful and melodic as it is powerful. The reader is obliged to work hard to navigate the narrative, and I have rarely read poetry where the search for meaning has been felt so deeply.'  (Introduction)

1 Explorer i "The world closed in, but it was fortunate", Jennifer Harrison , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 37)
1 Absolute Zero i "To have invented", Jennifer Harrison , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 80-81)
1 Eating Fire i "it’s quite okay to eat fire", Jennifer Harrison , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 70 2020; (p. 244-245)
1 1 Door 1 i "the TV chats in a corner of the room", Jennifer Harrison , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19 September 2020; (p. 18)
1 Fairy Floss i "spun to its finest skeins", Jennifer Harrison , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hope for Whole : Poets Speak up to Adani 2018; (p. 101)
1 [Review] La Trobe: Traveller Writer Governor Jennifer Harrison , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol. 64 no. 3 2018; (p. 501-502)

'This beautifully illustrated book pays homage to the multi‐talented, often misunderstood, first superintendent of the Port Phillip District and later lieutenant governor of the colony of Victoria during its tumultuous gold‐rush years. Charles Joseph La Trobe took up duties at Port Phillip in 1839 at the age of thirty‐eight, serving fifteen years before resigning to return to Europe. While his Victorian years provide a natural focus for Australian readers, La Trobe’s earlier and subsequent experiences all contributed to the making of his legacy; the private man moulded the sometimes unappreciated public image.'  (Introduction)

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