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Aidan Coleman is an Early Career Researcher at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. His third book of poems Mount Sumptuous (2020) is published by Wakefield Press and he is currently writing a biography of John Forbes.
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Review: Aidan Colemanon Jill Jones
Jill Jones by A History of What I'll Become UWA Publishing
Published February, 2020
'Let A Thousand Errors Bloom'
Jill Jones's oeuvre is difficult to place in the landscape of Australian poetry. Her urban settings, her skepticism regarding language's mimetic function, and her open poetics, sit comfortably with the legacies of the Generation of '68. But while she shares some of their tastes and concerns, her writing differs markedly from anyone in that group, and her poetry doesn't seem profoundly influenced by these poets – or by any other Australian writer. Her work rather shows traces of the Objectivists, the New York School and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, and European poets such as Tomas Tranströmer and Inger Christensen. Beyond this, are three abiding influences: Sappho, Dickinson and Gertrude Stein, all of whom were prolific experimentalists.
Jul. 2020 • Australian literature • Poetry
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