Jayne Fenton Keane
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Jayne Fenton Keane is a contemporary Australia
Australia
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n poet
Poet
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Jayne Fenton Keane has published several books of poetry, a CD recording and is active as a performance poet and in multimedia poetry. The Transparent Lung has been adapted for radio in collaboration with Mike Ladd. She has received a Varuna Writers' Centre Fellowship, a grant from Queensland Arts and has performed at festivals in Australia, Canada
Canada
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 and the United States
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. Additionally she is the founding and current director of National Poetry Week.

Works

Poetry
  • Fissure Blooms. (1994) ISBN 0-646-20976-0
  • Torn. (Plateau, 2000)
  • Ophelia's Codpiece. (Post Pressed, 2002) ISBN 1-876682-23-X
  • The Transparent Lung. (Post Pressed, 2003) ISBN 1-876682-51-5


CD
  • The Stalking Tongue. (1999)

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