Jillian Pattinson Jillian Pattinson i(A89942 works by) (a.k.a. Jill Pattinson)
Gender: Female
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Melbourne-based Jillian Pattinson has had her works broadcast on ABC Radio, and telecast on Red Lobster, the poetry programme on Channel 31 in Sydney and Melbourne. Her works 'Lure' and 'The Suit' were highly commended in the Shoalhaven 2006 Literary Award Poetry section, and she was commended for 'Legacy of the Initiate' in the 2005 Melbourne Poets' Union International Poetry Competition.

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y separately published work icon Babel Fish Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2014 8474841 2014 selected work poetry

'Jillian Pattinson's first full-length book of poetry includes portrait, lyrical, narrative and ekphrastic poems in free verse and novel forms. It won the 2010 Alec Bolton Prize for an unpublished manuscript. "The enigmatic vortex of the gyre, performing a fine balance between order and disorder, becomes the template for Jillian Pattinson's poetry. Even her lists work as centrifuges, spinning us out into what she calls 'the unmade world'. Her poetry will bring you into a world suspended in its fall, its gyre, somewhere between chaos and beauty. This kind of poetry is addictive to the ear and the mind. I know of nothing else quite like the way Pattinson's poetry can speak of the questions, silences, birds, deaths, and the strangely shifting names of things in the world. Like a journal of half-remembered dreams, with a Borgesian minor magic, sharing the insight of the blind with an uncluttered vision, this poetry does new things with the psyche, the heart, and with the mind." -Kevin Brophy' (Publication summary)

2015 highly commended Anne Elder Award
The Infinite Library i "There's a man climbing the book stacks, all he's read", 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: 2011 Global Poetry Anthology : Montreal International Poetry Prize 2012; (p. 39)
2011 shortlisted Montreal International Poetry Prize
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