Ross, Jack

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Jack Ross (b. 1962)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD32

1. Recovery [1-2]
2. Antipodes [1-4]
3. Except Once
4. Journey to the West [1-3]
5. Auckland Girl
6. Evenings in the Blackout [1-3]
7. A Woman named Intrepid
8. Idyll
9. Proverbial Philosophy
10. Tiger Country
11. Index
12. Last Night at the Party
13. Disorder and Early Sorrow
14. Goodbye Love

Bio/bibliography:

Biographical Information:

• Born in Auckland, 6 November 1962
• BA in English / Italian (Auckland University, 1984)
• MA in English – 1st class honours (Auckland University, 1986)
• 1986-1989: UK Commonwealth Scholarship.
• PhD in Comparative Literature (Edinburgh University, 1990)
• Taught English literature full-time for five years, first at Massey (1991) then Auckland University (1992-95)
• Since 1996, I’ve been working as a freelance writer, while continuing to teach (Creative and Academic writing) on Massey University’s Albany campus.
• 1998-1999: co-editor of the Pander (with Vanessa York, Andrew Forsberg, et al.)
• 1999-2003: co-editor of the poetry magazine Spin.
• “A Strange Day at the Language School” (Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25) shortlisted in the Landfall Essay Competition.
• 2002-2005: editor of the Arts journal brief.
• Since 2002: co-director (with Jan Kemp) of the Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive.
• 2007: guest-editor of Landfall 214: Open House.
• 2009: guest-editor of Poetry NZ 38: Featuring Jen Crawford (Auckland & Palm Springs: Puriri Press & Brick Row, 2009).
• Since 2009: chair of editorial committee of the Social and Cultural Studies monograph series (Massey University).

Author's Homepage:

• The Imaginary Museum (2006- )

Poetry Publications:

1. The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander (Dunedin: Kilmog Press, 2009) [poetry chapbook]
2. Jorge Luis Borges: Minotaur (Auckland: Pania Press, 2009) [translation]
3. Guillaume Apollinaire: Je donne à mon espoir (Auckland: Pania Press, 2009) [translation]
4. E M O (Auckland: Titus Books, 2008) [poetry / fiction]
5. Papyri (Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2007) [translation]
6. To Terezin. Social and Cultural Studies, 8 (Auckland: Massey University, 2007) [poetry / travel]
7. Love in Wartime (Wellington: Pania Press, 2007) [poetry chapbook]
8. A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005) [poetry / travel]
9. Chantal’s Book (Wellington: HeadworX, 2002) [poetry collection]
10. The Britney Suite (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001) [poetry chapbook]
11. Featured poet in Poetry New Zealand 22, ed. Alistair Paterson (Feb, 2001) [poetry]
12. The Perfect Storm, with Gabriel White (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000) [poetry / video]
13. A Town Like Parataxis, with Gabriel White (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000) [poetry / photographs]
14. [co-author] When the Sea Goes Mad at Night, ed. Theresia Liemlienio Marshall (Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1999/2000) [poetry]
15. City of Strange Brunettes (Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1998) [poetry collection]
16. Pound’s Fascist Cantos (Auckland: Perdrix Press, 1997) [translation]
17. Apollinaire’s Aubade, illustration by Mark Haddon (Edinburgh: Drummond Press, 1987) [translation]

Critical:

1. “Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens: Poets in Christchurch.” In Complete with Instructions, ed. David Howard (Christchurch: Firebrand, 2001) 33-61 [interviews]

Poetry (edited):

1. [with Jan Kemp] New NZ Poets in Performance (Auckland: AUP, 2008) [audio / text anthology]
2. [with Jan Kemp] Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance (Auckland: AUP, 2007) [audio / text anthology]
3. [with Jan Kemp] Classic NZ Poets in Performance (Auckland: AUP, 2006) [audio / text anthology]
4. [with Graeme Lay] Golden Weather: North Shore Writers Past & Present (Auckland: Cape Catley, 2004) [poetry editor]
5. Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian (Auckland: The Writers Group, 2004) [translation]