Book Launch: How to Emerge by Jill Jones

Welcome a new poetry collection from Jill Jones

Join prize-winning poet, Jill Jones, as she launches her new poetry collection, How To Emerge, published by Vagabond Press

The launch will take place at Goodwood Books on Thursday 7th May, 6.00pm for 6.30pm, 145 Goodwood Road, Goodwood, SA 5034

Sarah Tooth will introduce Jill and the book. Then Jill will talk about the process of making How To Emerge, about how the book did finally emerge. She will also read and reflect on some of the poems.

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Jill Jones’ new book, How to Emerge is filled with visions and ghosts, doubles and shadows. It also explores the living and damaged body, as it dances with humans, birds, animals, leaves, the weather, digital assemblage, sound and song, the elements and the planet.

‘How To Emerge, like all of Jill Jones’s work, exquisitely captures the attention of the heart and the mind. Jones adds to our understanding of identity as something continuous with, rather than somehow ‘above’, the material world. In addition to its subtle intellectual concerns, How To Emerge further demonstrates Jones’s standing as a master poet, illustrating poetry’s potential in endlessly playful and inventive ways.’ David McCooey

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Jill Jones’ work has been widely published in most of the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a number of print and online magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, the Czech Republic, France and India. She has published a number of prizewinning and shortlisted books, most recently Acrobat Music: New and Selected Poems which was shortlisted for the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards, and longlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal. In 2021 her book, Wild Curious Air, won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety.

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