Emma Jones was born in Sydney and studied at the universities of Sydney and Cambridge. Her first book,
The Striped World, has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Collection and is shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2009-10 she was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly...
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