Virginia Jealous Virginia Jealous i(A7003 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Rapture's Roadway Virginia Jealous , Edgecliff : Ventura Press , 2019 17524561 2019 selected work poetry biography prose

'After the death of her father, Lonely Planet writer Virginia Jealous travels across the world to document the life of his obsession - the scandalous 20th century poet Laurence Hope - in a unique blend of memoir and travelogue.

'John Jealous was sixty, and poet Laurence Hope had already been dead for eighty years when he became incomprehensibly obsessed with her.

'After his death, his daughter Virginia finds herself drawn into the extraordinary life and work of Laurence Hope - aka Violet Nicolson - who killed herself in Madras in 1904. Laurence Hope's poetry, with its sexually adventurous themes, thrilled and scandalised the Empire in India and beyond. In the first years of the twentieth century she was the most famous poet in the world; by World War II she was forgotten.

'Following in the footsteps of her father, Virginia travels across Australia, India, England, Spain and China, tracking Laurence Hope's life, and finding answers to, and further mysteries in, her father's unfinished business.

'A unique blend of poetry, memoir and travelogue, Rapture's Roadway untangles truth and lies and, where that's not possible, celebrates the enigma of not knowing.' (Publication summary)

1 Returning i "Wombat is perfect. Lies as if", Virginia Jealous , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 August no. 92 2019;
1 Conservation Status i "Gouldian finches at South Alligator River.", Virginia Jealous , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019; (p. 181-182)
1 Osprey i "Pooling water leaches into compact sand", Virginia Jealous , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 31 no. 2 2017; (p. 343)

Author's note: Pandion haliaetus

1 Weary's Birds i "He names them and their attributes: silent little drongos, multitudinous", Virginia Jealous , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 29)
1 Writing a Way to Belonging Virginia Jealous , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging : Indo-Australian Perspectives 2016; (p. 46-55)

'In the Beginning

I am an emigrant from Britain and immigrant to Australia. My father was born in Argentina to British parents, my mother in England. Until university I recall shuttling between at least sixteen places of residence in twelve cities in five countries, due to the vagaries of my parents' work, divorce and our subsequently reconfigured family life I have a strong sense that 'belonging' can be made as well as inherited; that I belong where I am at any given moment, as much as where I come from originally. ' (Introduction)

1 Remembrance Day i "Today it's been a year", Virginia Jealous , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 29 no. 2 2015; (p. 406-407)
1 Being Outside i "In the courtyard", Virginia Jealous , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 2 2015; (p. 124)
1 First Contact, Kakadu : Leichhardt's Grasshopper i "An then one wet season there", Virginia Jealous , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2015; (p. 103) The Best Australian Poems 2016 2016; (p. 100) The Weekend Australian , 11-12 June 2016; (p. 21)
1 Winter Beach, Scotland Virginia Jealous , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 28 no. 2 2014; (p. 366)
1 Mute Herdsman (Doi Saket) i "Say nothing but that which can be whispered,", Virginia Jealous , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 59 no. 2 2014; (p. 223) Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 53)
1 Miniature Women i "Suspended like a cloud of ambered flies", Virginia Jealous , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 19 April vol. 23 no. 7 2013; (p. 21-22) Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2013; (p. 104) Regime , no. 3 2014; (p. 12)
1 Veterans’ Villanelle i "It changed him as father, as a son", Virginia Jealous , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : Asian-Australian Arts and Culture , no. 16-17 2013;
1 Old Man at Lunchtime Hawker Stalls i "The food queue stretches forever", Virginia Jealous , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : Asian-Australian Arts and Culture , no. 16-17 2013;
1 Can't Live Without It i "Animals on salt licks", Virginia Jealous , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Love Poems 2013 2013; (p. 52)
1 The Apple Starts it All Virginia Jealous , 2013 single work prose
— Appears in: Australian Author , April vol. 45 no. 1 2013; (p. 34)
1 1 y separately published work icon Hidden World Virginia Jealous , Graham Kershaw (editor), Denmark : Hallowell Press , 2012 Z1933318 2012 selected work poetry
1 Bronze Crane, Displayed i "The captain says it's a little fish", Virginia Jealous , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 100)
1 Refugia i "They're found in distant places, far from where", Virginia Jealous , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: IJAS , no. 5 2012; (p. 21)
1 Poverty Speaks i "Poverty speaks a whining", Virginia Jealous , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: IJAS , no. 5 2012; (p. 19)
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