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248 Spring 2022

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Jill Jones

Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. Recent books include Wild Curious Air, A History Of What I’ll Become, Viva the Real, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Poetry and the 2020 John Bray Award, and Brink. In 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work has been translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Czech, Macedonian and Spanish.

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Published in Overland Issue 241 Summer 2020

River: contra/indications

Jill Jones

Even if I see and don’t see the river’s writhing the fish daphnia algae the water the water the swelling of ritalin warfarin methotrexate Even if I bend or don’t bend to the flow ingest bitter tasting wonders as do aquatic insects riparian spiders soaked in memantine codeine fluconazole mianserin

18 December 202015 February 2021

Poetry | Elsewhere here

Jill Jones

What is the colour of the world? The bush flame? And how should I begin? With phantoms like portents a blowtorch on the roadhouse the pity blues dogs don’t let up bragging. In the aftertaste of mourning are bankrupt sermons ‘twit twit twit’

Published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018

Mouth form flower

Jill Jones

Let fault flaw Let the fence fall Let’s flabbergast the goal with tongues Let debacle warp in dawn

Published in Overland Issue 226 Autumn 2017

Judges’ report

Toby Fitch and Jill Jones

This year’s shortlisted poems experimented with modes, moods and discourses to engage with various political and cultural moments. These poems made us return again and again to uncover more within their meanings and structures; to interrogate their ideas, line by line. Each poem had its particular vitality, its seductions, its pull, its hook. We continued to challenge each other about those that stood out and our lists kept changing. Some poems took weeks to emerge from the group. Others faded.

Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014

Wind shadow

Jill Jones

Terra incognita transfers across a plain, a wing blends the graces, tarmacs, macadam, concrete being so concrete, the tar-sick travel.

Published in Overland Issue 204 Spring 2011

Misinterpretations /or The Dark Grey Outline

Jill Jones

I move through a slanting, footpaths erupting roots through bricks near the mad old bus stop.