| Name |
Janet Jackson |
| Email Address |
lostpoetjj@gmail.com |
| Profession |
Poet, Writer, Performer, Educator, Editor, Event Producer |
| Professional Services |
- Community writing facilitation
- Consultations
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Master classes
- Master discussions
- Mentoring
- Public artwork creation
- Public readings
- Talks
- Therapeutic writing
- Workshop presentation
- Ghostwriting
- Publishing
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| Areas of Work |
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Children's
- Electronic multimedia
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Prose poetry
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| Country |
Australia |
| State |
WA |
| Suburb |
Bassendean |
| Address |
PO Box 197 Bassendean WA 6934 |
| Website |
http://www.proximitypoetry.com |
| Phone |
0406 624 578 |
| Biography |
Words with attitude and soul.
Poems, Performances, Workshops, Courses.
Creative, commercial and technical writing.
Editing.
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JANET JACKSON is a writer and editor and a poet of page, screen and microphone. She teaches poetry, performance and creative writing. She takes commissions for all kinds of writing, editing, manuscript production and self-publishing. She performs spoken word and produces and MCs events. Janet coordinates Perth Poetry Club.
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Janet has a Computer Science degree. She worked for eleven years in the IT industry and for ten in the non-profit sector. She wrote and edited articles, reviews, reports, presentations, newsletters, brochures and manuals. She wrote for employers and clients, for trade magazines and newspapers, and for professional associations.
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Janet has written poetry since 1986, seeking poems that work whether declaimed loudly or whispered in the mind. She also writes songs. She performs with attitude, soul, and sometimes guitar. She published a collection, ‘Coracle’, in 2009. A chapbook ‘q finger' was published by PressPress in early 2011.
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Janet’s website Proximity, www.proximitypoetry.com, is archived by the National Library of Australia’s Pandora project.
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Janet frequently guests at festivals and readings, including the 2010 Australian Poetry Centre festival at Goolwa, the 2009 Queensland Poetry Festival and Melbourne Overload 2007.
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Her poems have appeared in print and online media including Westerly, Mattoid, BLAST, The West Australian, nthposition (UK) and Hamilton Stone Review (US).
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Janet has been part of the international online poetry community since 1989 when she was invited to join an online salon by American poet, translator and classicist Jon Corelis.
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She is a member of Australian Poetry’s National Advisory Council. |
| Publication History |
Full CV, latest info, poems, downloadable zines, book sales, performance videos, etc, at www.proximitypoetry.com.
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'q finger' (chapbook), PressPress 2011. www.presspress.com.au
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'Coracle: Selected poems 1991-2007' (March 2009).
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Online collected works: Proximity, www.proximitypoetry.com.
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Notable guest appearances: 2011 and 2006 WA Spring Poetry Festivals; 2010 Australian Poetry Centre festival at Goolwa; 2009 Queensland Poetry Festival; 2007 Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival.
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Janet's poems have appeared in various print and online media, including
Westerly, Mattoid, BLAST, Marginata, The West Australian, Malleable Jangle,
The Broadkill Review (US), nthposition (UK) and Hamilton Stone Review (US).
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4 self-published chapbooks/zines, 'In the church of my skull' (2005),
'Listen' (2006), 'In whatever voice' (2007), and 'consumable gifts' (2011). |
