Jayne Fenton Keane
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Australian English Jayne Fenton Keane is a contemporary Australian poet and poetry performer. She is known for making innovative use of multimedia including Adobe Flash, for publishing her poetry on the web, and for poetry performance.[1][2]
Early life and education
Keane was born in the United Kingdom. At age one, she emigrated to Australia with her parents, Leslie and Linda Fenton.[1]
Keane was educated at Griffith University, completing a BA (Hons) with her thesis, "Slamming the sonnet",[3] and a PhD, with "Three-dimensional poetic natures".[4] She completed a second PhD, "The Language of Ecotourism", at the University of Southern Queensland.[5]
Career
Keane has published several books of poetry and a CD recording. She is active as a performance poet and in multimedia poetry.[6] The Transparent Lung was adapted for radio in collaboration with Mike Ladd.[7] Keane has received a Varuna Writers' Centre Fellowship and a grant from Queensland Arts, and has performed at festivals in Australia, Canada and the United States. She is the founding and current director of National Poetry Week.[8]
Reception of work
Liz Hall-Downs described The Transparent Lung as "intensely 'modern'", and compares Keane's progression as a poet from her previous work Ophelia's Codpiece to The Transparent Lung to Sylvia Plath's progression, noting the clarity of words and emotional directness.[2]
Works
Poetry
- Fissure Blooms (1994) Template:ISBN
- Torn (Plateau, 2000)
- Ophelia's Codpiece (Post Pressed, 2002) Template:ISBN
- The Transparent Lung (Post Pressed, 2003) Template:ISBN
- Nel with Cat, an ekphrastic poem for Nel Bonte[9]
CD
- The Stalking Tongue (1999)
References
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External links
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- www.poetinresidence.com Script error: No such module "webarchive". – home page
- A Compendium of Eyes – poem, mp3 readings & interview
- The Poetry of Jayne Fenton Keane at thylazine.org
- Two sound poems
- "Poetry Beyond the Page" – essay at Philament Journal
- "Clicklit | Cinelit & the Invisible Hand <skinborgs & poetmachines>" – essay at RMIT
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