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,
Australia
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. She is a senior lecturer at the
University of Adelaide
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.
Career
In 1993, Jones won the
Mary Gilmore Prize
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for her first book of poetry, ''The Mask and the Jagged Star'' (Hazard Press). Her third book, ''The Book of Possibilities'' (Hale & Iremonger), was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards.
Her fourth book, ''Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems'', was published by
Salt Publishing
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in 2002. It won the 2003
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.
Her fifth full-length book, ''Broken/Open'' was published by
Salt Publishing
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in 2005. It was shortlisted for ''
The Age
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'' Poetry Book of the Year 2005 and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2006.
Jones served as a judge for the 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and for the inaugural Broadway Poetry Prize in 2001.
''A History of What I'll Become'' was shortlisted for the 2021 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier's Literary Awards) and for the 2022
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
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John Bray Poetry Award. In 2021 she also won the
Wesley Michel Wright Prize
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History
Wesley Michel Wright graduated from the University ...
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Bibliography
Poetry
;Collections and chapbooks
* ''The Mask and the Jagged Star'', Hazard Press 1992
* ''Flagging Down Time'', Five Islands Press, Wollongong, 1993
* ''The Book of Possibilities'', Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1997
* ''Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems'', Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2002
* ''Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries'', Wild Honey Press, Bray, 2004 (chapbook)
* ''Where the Sea Burns'', Picaro Press, Warners Bay, 2004 (chapbook)
* ''Fold Unfold'', Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2005 (chapbook)
* ''Broken/Open'', Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2005
* ''Dark Bright Doors'', Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2010
* ''Ash is Here, So are Stars'', Walleah Press, North Hobart, 2012
* ''Senses Working Out'', Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2012
* ''Even If the Signal Fails'', Black Rider Press, Perth, 2013
* ''The Beautiful Anxiety'', Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, NSW, 2014
* ''Breaking the Days'', Whitmore Press, Geelong, 2015
* ''The Leaves Are My Sisters'', Little Windows Press, Adelaide, 2016
* ''Brink'', Five Islands Press, Melbourne, 2017
* ''The Quality of Light and Other Poems'', Garron Publishing, Adelaide, 2017
* ''Viva the Real'', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 2018
* ''A History of What I'll Become'', UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, 2020
* ''Wild Curious Air'', Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2020
* ''Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems'', Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, 2022
Selected critical studies and reviews of Jones' work