Jillian Pattinson Jillian Pattinson i(A89942 works by) (a.k.a. Jill Pattinson)
Gender: Female
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1 5 y separately published work icon Babel Fish Jillian Pattinson , 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 It won the 2010 Alec Bolton Prize for an unpublished manuscript.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)

1 Horse Latitudes i "The gyre. The currents sweeping up", Jillian Pattinson , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 41 2013;
1 The Suit i "What it is and precisely", Jillian Pattinson , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 33 2012; (p. 227) Going Down Swinging , no. 34 2013;
1 The Infinite Library i "There's a man climbing the book stacks, all he's read", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: 2011 Global Poetry Anthology : Montreal International Poetry Prize 2012; (p. 39)
1 The Night God Introduces Fox and Cat to Crow Jillian Pattinson , 2011 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 166-172)
1 VII Seven into One i "Fox Cat Fox Fox Fox Fox Fox - six still lives", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 172)
1 VI A Fable in Seven Tellings i "Trained to the trellis, Fox develops a taste", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 169)
1 V Notes to a Requiem in Seven Parts i "Enter the chorus at any point,", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 169)
1 IV Totem Poem with Seven Heads i "Born to this brush and hunger, I Fox", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 168)
1 III Seven Afterthoughts i "Six thought-foxes outfoxed and fixed", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 168)
1 II Seven Revelations i "On first light, Crow contemplates", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 167)
1 I Seven Ways to Look at Death i "Perched well clear of the fence, Crow", Jillian Pattinson , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 167)
1 ii. Child i "Carrying you piggy-back, little arms clinched", Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 92)
1 i. Man i "Overboard in deep water. Not a life-preserver", Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 92)
1 Buoyancy Jillian Pattinson , 2010 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 92)
1 y separately published work icon The Infinite Library Jillian Pattinson , 2010 (Manuscript version)x402147 Z1750275 2010 selected work poetry
1 Dead Sea Psalms i "The moon and sun cohabit the sky. The world turns.", Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 30 2010; (p. 232-233)
1 Ambiguities i "How should I remember you", Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 243)
1 Retrospective Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work prose
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 30 2010; (p. 9-10)
1 Ruination (A Fine Word, A Poem in Itself) i "like catastrophic", Jillian Pattinson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 120 2010; (p. 126)
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