Anna Jackson has six books of her poetry to her name, but her latest Actions & Travels focuses on the work of others.
Rather than an academic textbook, Actions & Travels explores how poetry works through the discussion of 100 poems, ranging from the ancient Roman poet Catullus, through to the Romantics like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and on to many distinct contemporary New Zealand voices — among them Hera Lindsay Bird and Jenny Bornholdt.
Jackson is a writer and academic who teaches English literature as an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. She is currently in residence at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland, having been awarded a 2022 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.
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