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

Publications

Poetry – Books and Anthologies

  • Gravidity and Parity, Vagabond Press, 2021 (forthcoming)
  • ‘Confirmation Bias’, ‘Miscarriages’, ‘Incomplete Disclosures’ — Appear in What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, Kurz, Ella; King, Simone and Delahunty, Claire, (eds.), Recent Work Press, 2021 (forthcoming)
  • A Leaving, Vagabond Press, 2018
  • ‘When women go to war’ — Appears in: Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, David Stavanger and Annie Te Whui (eds), University of Queensland Press, 2019
  • ‘We make a masked ball of sour days’, ‘Saying nothing’, ‘Who is the woman’ — Appears in: Bareknuckle Anthology, Brentley Frazer and A.G. Pettet (eds),Vol. 1, 2015
  • ‘Birthday letters’ — Appears in: Queensland Poetry Festival Anthology, 2012

Poetry – Journals and Websites

  • Patti Says, Dawn Song Project, UNESCO City of Literature, Heidelberg, Germany, 2020
  • ‘2 May 2020’, Poet Laureates of Melbourne, UNESCO City of Literature, Melbourne, 2 May 2020
  • Rozencrantz and Gildenstern and Collaborethics, Cordite Poetry Review, Chapbook Feature, 1 February 2020
  • ‘The candle’ — Appears in: Poetry Object, Red Room Poetry, 2019
  • ‘Newsbreak (1755 – 2018) — Appears in: Stilts, Vol. 2, 2018
  • ‘Hewoman’  — Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal, Vol. 8, no. 2, 2018
  • ‘I get the news I need from the weather report’, SBS Filipino, February 2015
  • ‘Moiré’ — Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal, Vol. 5, no. 2, 2015
  • ‘Love song to a unicyclist’, Brisbane Poetry Map (BPM), August 2015
  • One Night Wonders (live album), Going Down Swinging, 2014
  • ‘Chain Gang Blues’ — Appears in: Arc Poetry Magazine, Vol 75, 2014
  • ‘On a warm summer night’ — Appears in: Scum Magazine, 2014
  • ‘We bury not burn’ (film), collaboration with Betsy Turcot and Chloe Callistemon — Appears in: Cordite, Vol. 47, 2014
  • ‘There are important incongruities’ — Appears in: Going Down Swinging Blog, 2013
  • ‘We are a masked ball of sour days’ — Appears in: Queensland Poetry Festival Anthology, 2013
  • ‘The State We are In’ — Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal, No. 18, 2014
  • ‘Sleepy Town’ — Appears in: Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, No. 18, 2014
  • ‘Janis Ian remembers’ — Appears in: Going Down Swinging Blog, 2012
  • ‘All creatures feel fear’ — Appears in: Audio Overland, 2012
  • ‘The very best story I know’ — Appears in: Going Down Swinging, No. 32, 2011
  • ‘A night on the town’ — Appears in: Cordite, Creative Commons, Vol. 30, 2010
  • ‘The most beautiful thing’ — Appears in: Going Down Swinging, No. 30, 2010

Fiction

  • The Transfer — Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 18 no. 6, 2016

Essays and Editorials

  • Gravidity and Parity, Meanjin, The Next 80 Years, Vol 79, no 4, 2020sa
  • ‘Pregnant in a pandemic’, in Women’s Agenda, 7 April 2020
  • ‘Arts and non-arts collaborations’, in Jade Lille (ed), The Relationship is the Project, Brow Books, Melbourne, 2020
  • ‘On not talking to Germaine Greer’, in Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott, Natalie Kon-Yu and Miriam Sved (eds), #MeToo: stories from the Australian movement, Pan Macmillan, Melbourne, 2019

Interviews

  • ‘Natalie Kon-yu is a feminist first’, Dumbo Feather online, 3 February 2020
  • ‘Lori Lakin Hutcherson publishes good black news’, Dumbo Feather, Vol. 50, 2017
  • ‘Hanna Assafiri trades food for justice’, Dumbo Feather, Vol. 51, 2017
  • ‘Farways – Audrey Lam’, Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, No. 20, 2015
  • ‘Interview with John Mateer – Emptiness’, Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, no. 19 2015
  • ‘In conversation with Pete Emptage and Max Ryan’, Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, No. 19, 2015
  • ‘Interview: Deborah Ruiz Wall’, Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, No. 15, 2013

Exhibitions and installations

  • On art, motherhood and taking up space in the Melbourne Arts Precinct Walks, Episode Three, ACCA, Who’s Afraid of Public Space, December 2020
  • Poetry First Aid, for Red Dirt Poetry Festival, 31 July – 31 December 2020
  • Memory, Desire, Signs, ekphrastic poem for Return Flight – group exhibition at Blender Studios, Melbourne, 9-25 August 2019 and Floating Projects, Hong Kong, 14 – 29 September 2019
  • Love Me Tinder – solo exhibition featuring installations of Side A/Side B and Now You See Me, and Social Climbing as live performance for Red Dirt Festival, Alice Springs, 28-31 July 2016
  • Now You See Me – poetry recordings and braille translation, premiered as live performance for Exist ARI, Metro Arts, Brisbane, 6 June 2016
  • Chasing Infinite Junctures – catalogue essay and performance for Caitlin Franzmann exhibition, Box Copy, Brisbane, premiered 10 April 2015
  • Social Climbing – premiered at for Exist ARI, Metro Arts, Brisbane, 5 June 2014
  • Side A/Side B – Tandem poetry presented on tape or vinyl, as an installation, recording or live performance. Premiered as an installation and a live performance at the Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, 24 August, 2013
  • A timely act of intimacy – one-on-one performance installation, premiered at for Exist ARI, Metro Arts, Brisbane 1 November 2013

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