Jordie Albiston has published nine poetry collections. Two of her books─Botany Bay Document (Black Pepper, 1996) and The Hanging of Jean Lee (Black Pepper, 1998)─have been adapted for music theater, both enjoying seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Jordie’s most recent titles are XIII Poems (Rabbit Poets Series, 2013) and The Weekly Poem: 52 Exercises in Closed & Open Forms (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014). Her work has won many awards, including the 2010 NSW Premier’s Prize. Jordie has an ongoing preoccupation with mathematical constructs and constraints and the possibilities offered in terms of poetic structure. She lives in Melbourne.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2017
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it is all still there despite itself & the too vast space between hours I do notthank it enough the minute in the handthe always everywhere the fact I al- […]
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
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