Jill Jones (poet)
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Jill Jones | |
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| Born | 1951 (age 74–75) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable awards | 1993 Mary Gilmore Prize |
Jill Jones (born 1951)[1] is a poet and writer from Sydney, Australia.[2] She is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.
In 1993, Jones won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press).[3] 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.[4]
Her fourth book, Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, was published by Salt Publishing in 2002. It won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier's Literary Awards).[5]
Her fifth full-length book, Broken/Open was published by Salt Publishing in 2005. It was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year 2005 and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2006.[6]
Jones served as a judge for the 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and for the inaugural Broadway Poetry Prize in 2001.[7]
A History of What I'll Become was shortlisted for the 2021 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier's Literary Awards)[8] and for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature John Bray Poetry Award.[9] In 2021 she also won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize.[10]
She was shortlisted for the 2026 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for How to Emerge.[11]
