Erik Jensen

An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction, now an award-winning feature film. In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he...

Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake - a work of art that depicts rural Australia in a funny, cutting and unforgettable way. This is...

A strange, pungent account of a decade in Australian politics—a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper. Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character studies with political insights and unvarnished rage....

A dazzling and insightful look at the Australian federal election 2019. What went wrong for Labor and how did Scott Morrison achieve his remarkable victory? In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and...

Sweet, fragile poems about intimacy and separation "In these sweet, fresh, fragile poems, Jensen demonstrates courage and skill at the arts of poetry and of love, and makes the sly suggestion that the one might be a metaphor for the other." - The Weekend Australian on I said the sea was folded A sequel to Erik Jensen's first collection of...

From award-winning writer Erik Jensen comes a tender and involving narrative sequence of short love poems. These poems were intended first as gifts. They are the story of falling in love . . . and realising that rejecting the gender binary is not one thing—it is everything. - Erik Jensen Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer, and screenwriter. I...

This edition, The Greco-Persian Wars, taps our knowledge of the Persian Empire and its interactions with the Greek world. Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. The sources examined were created in different times and places, for different purposes, and with different intended audiences. Using these...