Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems

by Anna Jackson

Uneasy nights out with dead Russian poets, dalliances with German gas-fitters, and emotionally fraught games of badminton are brought together for the first time in this time-spanning selection of Anna Jackson’s poetry. Local gothic, suburban pastoral, and answerings-back to literary icons are all enhanced by Jackson’s light hand and sly humor. Pastoral yet gritty, intellectual and witty, sweet but with stings in their tails, the poems and sequences collected in Pasture and Flock are essential reading for both old and new admirers of Jackson’s slanted approach to lyric poetry.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction

140 pages, Paperback

Published August 8, 2018

Reviews

[Simon Sweetman · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are funny, inventive poems. I like most of them a great deal, the old and the new. Maybe particularly the new...

[Marcus Hobson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this collection of both new and selected poems from Anna Jackson. Having a tantalising glimpse of some of her earlier works has made me want to read these in their entirety, rather than the pared down selections here.
Also, she mentions notes in some of the other volumes and in places I want to know more.
I like the poems from 'I, Clodia' and they brought back half remembered memories of Classical History, the Roman Republic and a volume about The Latin Love Poets I have owned since I was a teenager.

At one point I found a short series of poems about a female photographer; The pretty photographer, The photographer’s hallway, The photographer in the Library, and The photographer’s Olympics. Four poems over six pages open a window on the life of the photographer, tell me so much about her, likes and dislikes, daily life. I love the feelings that I am left with. Happy to have known her briefly, wishing that I could meet her and talk about the pictures in her hall.

A great collection with a wonderful black and white and red cover, trees and hens and just a hint of red writing.

[Anuja · Rating 3 out of 5]

[3.5]

[scarlettraces · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fuck I love Jackson.