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      What the critics say:
      





      "poetry of unsettling mystery and beauty. ... passionate and
parodic at once, as cool as all get out."
The Australian

      





      "... building bridges and points of access and communication,
forming a whole, prescient and often deeply moving
experience."
Poetry International Web

      





      "... redemptive in an entirely secular way, offering moments
of existential clarity in unsentimental material observation."
Jacket

      





      "her vision is impeccable ... invites the reader to share
in the speculative processes of discovery."
Heat

      





      "one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Australian
poetry"
Australian Women's Book Review

      





      "a singular voice, able to transform and give significance to
the minute details of daily life."
Christchurch Star

      





      "[a] reputation as one of those poets who is beginning to move
Australian poetry into new directions - towards a greater trust than
ever in the poet's own responses, a quietening of judgemental
implications, and to find ways of exploring the rhapsodic."
Southerly

      





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      Welcome to the website of Jill Jones
      





      This is my main website. It contains information about my
books, sample poems from the books as
well as new works, articles,
interviews, and
other writings.

      





      It also provides links to my
work on other sites and my other
websites.
      





      Jill on a Paris bus
      

Photo: Annette Willis 2007
      





      A little bit
about my work
      





      My poems reflect places which are mainly urban and strewn with
emblems and texts, accidental or deliberate.
      





      




I'm interested in relationships between states and locales, shifting
borders, the openings in closures, pleasures of exploration, the great
themes, like the weather. Walking is important, slow mobility across
terrain, the temporal process.
      





      




I’m working somewhere between the lyric and something more
broader, more discursive, so I move from either investigations of
interiority or sensuality merged with the figurative which may also
speak to larger structures. The poems have become a broken song
– fragmented, flagrant, floating - perhaps an abstract or
ruined lyric, where ‘I’ has shifted from the centre.
      





      The way I work has evolved from a continuing interest in
texture,
pattern and transience, of jumping in the midst of the flow, experience
in language underway, asking questions about how the pieces
don’t
fit as shards alter meanings.
      





      




While not getting hung up on ‘the image’ as such,
I’ve always worked visually. I’m not interested in
telling
images what to do but rather a process of seeing.
      





      




The soundings of a poem are also important to me, as is the way the
line works. I prefer more linguistic play in the line emphasising both
connectedness and parataxis, the flexing of thought/meditation and
critique, including self-critique.
      





      





      You can buy copies of my books online
from the following publishers:
      




Salt Publishing
      




Broken/Open|
Screen
Jets Heaven
      





      





      Picaro
Press
      




Where the
Sea Burns
      





      




Title image: Causeway Bay, 2007. Photo by Jill Jones