eleanor j jackson
  • Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
    performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
    about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
    friend. One day, she is going to be an
    ideas curator. Which basically
    means, she will tell you
    exactly what she thinks.
    Until then, you’ll have
    to read between
    the lines.

  • BIO
  • Publications
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Performances
  • Press
  • Projects
    • Collaborations
      • Artology Remix
      • Chosen Family
      • DJ Thought Fox vs MC Lady Lazarus
      • Just Before You Died
      • Shave and a Haircut
      • She Stole My Every Rock and Roll
      • We Bury Not Burn
    • Performance Installations
      • A timely act of intimacy
      • Now You See Me
      • Side A/Side B
      • Social Climbing
    • Production
      • Melbourne Poetry Map
      • Peril Magazine
  • Contact

BIO

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and radio broadcaster.

Eleanor has that rare gift in poetry – the ability to capture even the rowdiest slam crowd without the aid of histrionics, relying instead on understatement, clarity, and the power of her words. Both in her writing and the way it is performed, this is work of the highest possible calibre.

– Geoff Lemon, Editor, Going Down Swinging

A regular guest at Australian literary and arts festivals, Eleanor has been described as capable of creating, “powerful quiet”.

Her poetry is published in Overland Journal, Arc Poetry Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Bareknuckle Poet Annual Anthology, Going Down Swinging, Peril Magazine, Scum Magazine and the Cordite Poetry Review, FBI’s “All the Best”, RRR’s “Aural Text”, 3CR’s “Spoken Word”, ABC Radio National’s “Night Air” and the online poetry channel, “IndieFeed: Performance Poetry”.

Her live album, One Night Wonders, is available for digital download through Going Down Swinging. Her chapbook, A Leaving, was published by Vagabond Press in 2018. Her work has been anthologised in Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Poetry (UQP: 2019); #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement (PanMacMillan: 2019); and The Relationship is the Project: Working with Communities (Brow Books: 2020). Her radio play, Agent Ion, was featured as a part of Radiotonic for ABC Radio National, and her short fiction, The Transfer, appeared in Review of Australian Fiction. In 2014-2015, she was Artist in Residence at La Boite Theatre in Brisbane.

Eleanor is committed to developing and hosting events and experiences that showcase the diversity of poetic language. She is the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map,  is currently Chair of the Board for Peril Magazine and Advisory Board Member for Almaviva Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria. She has previously been involved in a multitude of community arts festivals and projects as a governance leader, advisor, advocate and programmer, including roles as Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine; Board Member and Program Adviser for the Queensland Poetry Festival; Curator for Brisbane Emerging Arts Festival; Vice-Chair and Diversity Advisory committee of The Stella Prize; Reference Group Member and Organisational Mentor for Diversity Arts Australia, Fair Play Project.

Eleanor also loves creating and sharing stories of community, identity and place and was a long-time host of At the Local on 4zzz fm, profiling local arts, events and community organisations that often pass under the radar of mainstream broadcasting with co-host, and all-round dreamboat, Domenico Natoli

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