Anna Jackson
flewoutof.bsky.social
Anna Jackson
@flewoutof.bsky.social
Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her

When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
dear world, riches await you
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Today (4/12) every dollar you donate to Orange Sky Aotearoa will be DOUBLED. Orange Sky does amazing work supporting individuals & whānau experiencing homelessness & hardship through access to free laundry & warm showers.
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Holiday Appeal 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.

“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."

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“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban
“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”
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December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Interview with a poem, in which the poem declares itself proud of its semi-colons (I think they are rather like the triangular holes in the tin, personally): nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Murray Edmond
INTERVIEW WITH A POEM: ‘Night Shift 1’ (1970) Night-Shift 1 I get up at 4.00pm& buy a cheese3 tomatoes, an orange, & a tin of fruit juiceas usual;also a paper.I return to the kitchen& p…
nzpoetryshelf.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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It was a great privilege to live here and I am grateful
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
My brave and heroic daughter helped put together this open letter hoping to prevent others from suffering from Long Covid as she is, please sign
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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New petition! Clean air and N95 masks in healthcare 😷
A grim anniversary today - six years since the first identified Covid case.
In Aotearoa, we were lucky to have leadership that listened to the science in the early phases of the pandemic, saving thousands of lives.
However, subsequently we have not applied the science that
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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David Need
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I am loving this
the beginning of Yet Another Long Poem(tm) that I've been working on
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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"Trailblazing women like Clodia have always, in the historian’s shorthand, been called 'ahead of their time.' But history deserves to be told from another point of view."

My essay @time.com

time.com/7326211/roma...
The Roman Republic Crumbled When Patriarchy Prevailed
Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.
time.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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i love my trans whaanau they are everything / we will fight this

a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Let's stamp this racist poll!
1/2 Link in thread #NZPol
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This conference programme looks spectacular.
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.

I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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One of the wonders of reading, writing and teaching fiction is seeing the truth that the supply of stories is inexhaustible. It's like discovering infinity in what might seem a finite space. There is always another fold in even familiar corners of the universe.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Climate friendly house, no pamphlets please, only kittens
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I love Starling - some of my favourite poems in Starling I later saw into print when editing selections for the AUP New Poets series, others I have taught in class. These four poems from Starling are wonderful, surprising choices - which Starling poem would you choose?
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Have you fully recovered from an eating disorder and/or cared for someone with an ED? Would you like to use your lived experience to support other individuals in treatment/recovery? If so, come & join me as a peer support worker at the Specialist ED Service in Hamilton!! jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
jobs.govt.nz
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.

Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I love this series, where poets pick a favourite poem of theirs. How could Chris Tse choose just one? But this one is amazing, and revisiting it now after all Chris has written since, it seems richer and more riddled than ever:
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/05/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Chris Tse
(Biopsy) He is a man carved from witness woodand tonight they will cut him open. Whispers ate his tongueand people failed to ask after him. As they tear at his flesh to let in borrowed lighthis bod…
nzpoetryshelf.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
An interview about what I love in the new poetry from Aotearoa, and a description of Te Whāriki, the book on NZ poetry I edited with Dougal McNeill and poet laureate Robert Sullivan:
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...
Interview: Anna Jackson talks about Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland Uni...
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Looking forward to seeing all those last minute applications for the 2026 MA workshop pouring in: if you're having any problems with yours, just contact us on [email protected]!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Master of Arts in Creative Writing - Te Kohinga Auaha | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join the Creative Writing programme with a national and international reputation for developing many of New Zealand's best writers.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM