Object Lessons: The Power of Writing about Things

Discover fresh new ways to write about the familiar, by focusing poetry ideas through everyday objects. In this workshop, guest poet Jill Jones will present content and exercises based on a fresh take on mundane items. Come and be informed and influenced about different ways of looking at possessions & public space items from someone who has credit to their name in doing just this.

Jill Jones’ latest book is Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems (2023), short-listed for the 2024 John Bray Poetry Prize, long-listed for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2021 her book, Wild Curious Air, won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia and internationally. Her writing at the moment explores intersections and hauntings of bodies and sexuality, place, objects, and the everyday. From 2008-2022, she was Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. She has also previously worked as an arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist, second-hand bookseller, and book editor.

Cost: $30/$25 conc.

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