Anna Jacobson

Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a crippling companion. Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson's second illustrated poetry collection where the 'sweet', whimsical, humorous, and quirky is juxtaposed with the 'anxious' forces of mental illness...

Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, The Jewish Independent Award for Young Jewish Writers Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the...

New poetry from the author of Anxious in a Sweet Store. All Rage Blaze Light, Anna Jacobson's third fiery illustrated poetry collection, is for anyone who has ever needed therapy from their therapy. Join Anna in escaping darkrooms to become a colour artist, dancing with pianos resisting magnetism, surviving rentals on the same street as your therapist's office, becoming trauma's...

Amnesia Findings, by Anna Jacobson, is the winner of the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry. Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps - slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex - I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions...