Viva the Real

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The poems in this distinctive new volume query the assumed and unquestioned, and are concerned with ethical questions of social justice. They balance wit and wisdom, quip and play and the lyrical and experimental. Viva the Real will be one of the most talked-about volumes of Australian poetry in 2018.The poems in this distinctive new volume query the assumed and unquestioned, and are concerned with ethical questions of social justice. They balance wit and wisdom, quip and play and the lyrical and experimental. Viva the Real will be one of the most talked-about volumes of Australian poetry in 2018.
Jill Jones has published ten full-length poetry books and a number of chapbooks, including The Beautiful Anxiety, which won the Victorian Premiers' Literary Award for Poetry in 2015, and Breaking the Days, which won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2017. She also won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and the Mary Gilmore Award.

Her work is published widely in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and periodicals, and she has been the recipient of grants from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Copyright Agency. Jill lives in Adelaide and is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.