Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
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By: Jordie Albiston

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Paperback | 15 June 2025

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Jordie Albiston is one of Australia's most accomplished and celebrated poets, and Selected Poems presents a keenly anticipated retrospective of her work.

This significant volume offers the reader an enthralling visit to all thirteen of her critically acclaimed poetry collections many of which have been honoured by national awards. From as far back as her 1995 debut Nervous Arcs, Albiston's work has demonstrated a trademark exploration into the liberties and constraints of form.

Accompanied by a deep regard for both music and mathematics, this preoccupation has manifested itself in a delight for traditional frameworks (in particular, the sonnet), as well as the generation of new forms.

Industry Reviews

'Intelligence and feeling are pushed to extremes in Albiston's edgy poems.'
Heather Cam Sydney Morning Herald

'Albiston's poetry has long been fascinating to me, for her beautifully cadenced lyrics as much as for the classical elegance of her historical work.'
Michael Sharkey Island

'Jack & Mollie (& Her) is triumphantly experimental in both technique and content ... an important book by a leading Australian poet.'
Geoff Page Australian Book Review

'While [the periodic table] may seem like an unorthodox method of writing a love poem, the results are explosive.'
Sarah Holland-Batt The Australian

'Jordie Albiston's poems slide through linguistic associations, etymologies, histories and locations. They establish a scale that is at once both atomic and cosmic, harnessing those minutely observed details of elemental love alongside the vast, world-altering consequences of emotional and chemical states.'
Judges' Report, 2021 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

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