Anna Jackson is a New Zealand poet who grew up in Auckland and now
lives in Island Bay, Wellington. She has a DPhil from Oxford and is
an associate professor in English literature at Victoria University
of Wellington.
Anna made her poetry debut in AUP New Poets 1 before publishing six
collections with Auckland University Press. Her most recent book,
Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems, gathers work from her
previous collections as well as twenty-five new poems. The book
includes poems from Catullus for Children and I, Clodia, the two
collections that engage with the work of Catullus, as well as poems
about badminton, billiards, salty hair, takahē, head lice,
indexing, proof-reading, hens, truth and beauty.
As a scholar, Anna Jackson is the author of Diary Poetics: Form and
Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and, with
Charles Ferrall, Juvenile Literature and British Society,
1850–1950: The Age of Adolescence (Routledge, 2009).
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