Jill Jones’s latest book is How To Emerge (Vagabond Press, 2025). Her book Wild Curious Air (Recent Work Press, 2020) won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 Jones won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014). Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the UK, and the US. She recently contributed a chapter to New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Palgrave, 2021), and a cowritten chapter to the Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Jones has worked as an academic, arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist, book editor, and bookseller.
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Bone is the sound of tonightknocking around on the shoreinside there’s another lifecurled up for eonsan old leaf, a molluscthis is what I amoutside it’s dark buthere light emergesshining from […]