{"title":"Jill Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJill Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of contemporary arts and culture, blending poetic insight with vivid narrative. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eAcrobat Music\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e, evoke a deep emotional resonance while engaging with the complexities of creativity and expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect an immersive experience that celebrates the nuances of artistic life and the human spirit. Through lyrical prose and thoughtful reflection, Jones crafts a distinctive voice that captures both struggle and beauty in the cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"viva-the-real-by-jill-jones-9780702260100","title":"Viva the Real","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, \u003cem\u003eViva the Real\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones' poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363330408684,"sku":"9780702260100","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/244983482438.jpg?v=1772920731"},{"product_id":"acrobat-music-by-jill-jones-9781922571571","title":"Acrobat Music","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis long-awaited collection by major Australian poet, Jill Jones, selects from her 13 full-length volumes, published over three decades, as well as from numerous new and uncollected poems, and includes an introduction by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRather than a chronological reckoning, the book offers a series of clusterings around ideas of the local, social being, environments, intimacy, language play, and reckonings with mortality. Jones is well-known for her ambitious and distinctive reworkings of the lyric, and her dextrous extension of experimental modes. Thus, \u003ci\u003eAcrobat Music\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major recasting of Jones' significant contribution to contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A leading contemporary stylist who has disciplined her lyric into a rigorous and highly economical poetry of description and response.' - Judges' comments, 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Jill Jones's work is characterised by its freshness and its originality, its sensitivity to almost imperceptible valences of language, experience and expression.' - Judges' comments, 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460092838124,"sku":"9781922571571","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571571-acrobat-music.jpg?v=1774943756"},{"product_id":"beautiful-anxiety-by-jill-jones-9781922186430","title":"Beautiful Anxiety","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global in an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems are in turn provocative, tender, impatient, and playful, and swerve through the world, awake to its lostness as well as its 'flesh and spark'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is surely a break-through book. Jill Jones has compressed her lyric awareness into an exacting and low-key brilliance: alert, astute, unsentimental, and with a linguistic intelligence so sharp in its inner and outer registers I kept asking myself: how is she doing it? There is incisive balance between the sensory and the fugitive, yet her images and figures are so crisp they feel more real than so-called reality.\" - Philip Salom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJill Jones' \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e, dedicated to the memory of her mother, joins elegiac witness to 'another flow'. Her sparse 'ruined lyrics' expand into 'something planetary'. Sensate poesis unfolds 'genres of dust'; the ghosts of Voss, Sappho, and Messaien appear. \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e dwells in the imminence of loss, its 'vast frontier' and scope. - Kate Lilley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jill Jones' poetry attains a Newtonian clarity by occasioning objects to collide with displaced emotion, breaking new ground through the estranging effect of coupling wonder with wryness. This book is an intense celebration of that subcutaneous disturbance often only present in the most acute poetic sensibilities.\" - Brian Castro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595779490028,"sku":"9781922186430","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/266552920da8fe8dc98f856a4ff5389a.jpg?v=1777934121"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jill-jones.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}