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Dr Jack RossPosition: Lecturer |
Contact Details
Room: AT2.32, Atrium Building, Albany Campus, Auckland
Telephone Extension: 9506
Email: J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz
Expertise
Jack teaches Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction), Life Writing, Travel Writing, and New Zealand Literature. His research interests include contemporary New Zealand poetry, as well as traditional and popular forms of fiction (from the 1001 Nights to contemporary Fantasy and SF). His publications include three poetry collections: City of Strange Brunettes (1998), Chantal's Book (2002) and To Terezín (2007), and six works of fiction. He has also edited numerous books of fiction and poetry, including the best-selling trilogy of audio / text anthologies Classic, Contemporary and New New Zealand Poets in Performance (AUP, 2006-8).
Teaching
139.123 Creative Writing
139.326 Travel Writing
Possible Supervision
Multimedia Approaches to Contemporary Poetry
Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture
Traditional Folktales and Fairy Stories
Non-European Prose Fiction Traditions
Blog
http://mairangibay.blogspot.com/
Publications
Books
Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia. Artwork by William T. Ayton. ISBN 978-0-473-18881-8. Rhinebeck, NY: Narcissus Press / Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2011. [details on Lulu.com website: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/scenes-from-the-puppet-oresteia/15746981]
Kingdom of Alt: Short Stories. ISBN-13: 978-1-877441-15-8. Auckland: Titus Books, 2010. [details on Titus Books website: http://titus.books.online.fr/html/KingdomOfAlt.html]
EMO: A Novel. ISBN-13: 978-1-877441-07-3. Auckland: Titus Books, 2008. [details on Titus Books website: http://titus.books.online.fr/html/EMO.html]
To Terezín: A Travelogue. With an Afterword by Martin Edmond. Social and Cultural Studies, 8. ISSN 1175-7132. Auckland: Massey University, 2007. [details on Social and Cultural Studies website: http://socialculturalstudies.blogspot.com/2010/08/title-8.html]
The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis: A Novel. ISBN-10: 0-9582586-8-6. Auckland: Titus Books, 2006. [details on Titus Books website: http://titus.books.online.fr/html/Atlantis.html]
Trouble in Mind. Titus Novella Series. ISBN-10: 0-9582586-1-9. Auckland: Titus Books, 2005. [details on Titus Books website: http://titus.books.online.fr/html/Trouble.html]
Monkey Miss Her Now & Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know: Short Stories. ISBN-10: 0-476-00182-X. Auckland: Danger Publishing, 2004. [details on Works & Days website: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/monkey-miss-her-now-2004.html]
Chantal's Book. ISBN-10: 0-473-08744-8. Wellington: HeadworX, 2002. [details on HeadworX website: http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/author/rossj.php]
Nights with Giordano Bruno: A Novel. ISBN-10: 0-9582225-0-9. Wellington: Bumper Books, 2000. [details on Crywolf Books website: http://www.crywolfbooks.org/bruno.php]
City of Strange Brunettes. ISBN-10: 0-473-05446-9. Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1998. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/city-of-strange-brunettes-1998.html]
Edited Books and Magazines
11 Views of Auckland. Edited by Grant Duncan & Jack Ross. ISSN: 1175-7132. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2010. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2010/08/11-views-of-auckland-2010.html]
Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. 2004. Edited by Jack Ross & Marco Sonzogni. ISBN-13: 978-88-7536-264-5. Transference Series. Novi Ligure: Edizioni Joker, 2010. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2010/11/campana-to-montale-2010.html]
New New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp. ISBN 978 1 86940 4093. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-nz-poets-in-performance-2008.html]
Home & Away: Life Writing 3. Edited by Kathryn Lee & Jack Ross. ISBN 978-0-473-13539-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2008/03/home-away-2008.html]
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp. ISBN 1 86940 367 3. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. [details on AUP website: http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/2007/contemporary-new-zealand-poets.cfm]
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp. ISBN 1 86940 367 3. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. [details on AUP website: http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/200506-book/classic-new-zealand-poets.cfm]
The Myth of the 21st Century, edited by Tina Shaw & Jack Ross. Auckland: Reed, 2006. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/myth-of-21st-century-2006.html]
Where Will Massey Take You? Life Writing 2, edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/where-will-massey-take-you-2005.html]
Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian, edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2004. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/campana-to-montale-2004.html]
Golden Weather: North Shore Writers Past & Present, edited by Jack Ross & Graeme Lay. ISBN 0-908561-96-2. Auckland: Cape Catley, 2004. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/golden-weather-2004.html]
[your name here]: Life Writing, edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2003. [details at: http://hesiodic.blogspot.com/2007/10/your-name-here-life-writing-2003.html]
(magazines)
Bravado: A Literary Arts Magazine 19 (July 2010). ISSN 9-771176-339003 [guest fiction editor].
Poetry NZ 38 (March 2009). ISSN 0114-5770 [guest editor].
Landfall 214 – Open House (November 2007). ISBN 978 1 877372 93 3 [guest editor].
brief 24-32. ISSN 1175-9313 (2002-2005)
Spin 33,36,39,42 & 45. ISSN 0113-8227 (1999-2003)
Anthologies, Chapbooks, Online & Periodical Publications
(poetry)
“Disorder and Early Sorrow”. In 99 Ways into NZ Poetry. By Paula Green & Harry Ricketts. ISBN 978-1-86979-178-0. (Auckland: Random House, 2010)
The Return of the Vanishing New Zealander. ISBN 978-0-9864507-6-1. Dunedin: Kilmog Press, 2009.
Papyri: Love poems & fragments from Sappho & elsewhere. ISBN 978-0-473-12397-0. Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2007.
Love in Wartime. Wellington: Pania Press, 2006.
"from Tiger Country." In Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn & Mary Paul. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2006.
A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy. ISBN 0-473-10526-8. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2005.
“Seven Levels of the Waterfall.” In Summer Book from Eye Street. Edited by Raewyn Alexander. ISBN 0254-0193. Auckland: Bright Communications, 2005.
"Language School Picnic." New Zealand Listener vol. 200 (3412) (October 1-7, 2005 ): 44.
"Nouvelle Vague." Landfall 202 (2001): 111.
"Withdrawal Symptoms." New Zealand Listener 3196 (August 11-17, 2001): 62.
Featured Poet in Poetry NZ 22 (2001): 11-26.
The Britney Suite. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001.
Included in Something Between Breaths: A Collection of Poetry from New Zealand. Edited by Patricia Prime. SELL: Series in English Language and Literature, 54. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 2000.
A Town like Parataxis. Poems by Jack Ross. Photographs by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07104-5. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000.
"Except Once." New Zealand Listener 3140 (July 15-21, 2000 ): 44.
“Travel Sonnets”. In When the Sea Goes Mad at Night (anthology). Poems by Alison Denham, Robin McConnell, Theresia Liemlienio Marshall, Jade Reidy, Jack Ross, and Apirana Taylor. Edited by Theresia Liemlienio Marshall. Auckland: Christian Gray, 1999-2000.
(multimedia)
"Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003)." New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/paul/index.asp
The Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. Compiled and edited by Jan Kemp and Jack Ross, with assistance from Edmund King and Mark King. Special Collections Dept, Auckland University Library, 2004. [40 CDs Audio / 2 CDs Texts]. http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/taonga/index.asp
"God's Spy"- text/video: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/birthday/ross.asp
"Alan Brunton." New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/brunton/brief/index.asp
"Smithymania." New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/smithymania.asp
The Perfect Storm. Video by Gabriel White, text by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-07350-1. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2000. [12 mins]
(articles)
“Hearts on the Run: Poetry Panels in Sydney.” Home & Away 2010. New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (19/11/10). [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/home&away/papers-ross.asp]
“A Short History of Fairytales." One Brown Box: A Storybook Exhibition for Children, by Bronwyn Lloyd & Karl Chitham (6 November – 18 December 2010). ISBN-13: 978-0-9582811-8-8 (Auckland: Objectspace, 2010) 27-37.
“Scroll, Codex, Hypertext …. A Contribution to the Flying Blind Symposium (3/12/09).” Floating Cinemas Website (7 December, 2009). [http://floatingcinemas.blogspot.com/2009/12/scroll-codex-hypertext.html]
“Troubling Our Sleep: Ted Jenner’s Postmodern Classicism. A Review-essay.” Ka Mate Ka Ora 8 (September, 2009): 46-66. [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/08/ka_mate08_ross.asp]
“The Tolkien Industry.” Scoop Review of Books (June 16, 2009). [http://books.scoop.co.nz/2009/06/16/the-tolkien-industry/]
“In Love with the Chinese Novel: A Voyage around the Hung Lou Meng.” brief 37 (2009): 10-28. [http://titus.books.online.fr/WebMagazines/ChineseNovel.html]
"Irony and After: New Bearings in NZ Poetry.” Poetry NZ 35 (2007): 95-103. [http://mairangibay.blogspot.com/2007/08/landfall-214.html]
“Pound’s Fascist Cantos Revisited.” Ka Mate Ka Ora 3 (March, 2007): 41-57. [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/03/ka_mate03_ross.asp]
“In the Shop of Wah Lee: Denys Trussell - poet, musician, ecologist." Poetry NZ 32 (2006): 85-94.
"The Poetics of Stasis in The 1001 Nights." Magazine 2 (2004): 7-18.
A Conversation with Graham Lindsay." New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/lindsay/ross.asp]
"Introduction to the Translations of Kendrick Smithyman." Glottis 8 (2003): 91-96.
"Kendrick Smithyman: Uncollected Northland Poems," edited by Jack Ross. brief 26 (2003): 19-49.
"Life with Kendrick: A Conversation with Margaret Edgcumbe." brief 26 (2003): 103-09.
"Alan Brunton, my publisher." New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/brunton/recollections/ross.asp]
"Hong Kong - 2001." brief 25 (2002): 13-16.
"What is Auckland Poetry?" Five Bells vol. 9 (3) (2002): 14-15.
Shortlisted in Landfall Essay Competition for "A Strange Day at the Language School." Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25.
"Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens: Poets in Christchurch." In Complete with Instructions. Edited by David Howard. Christchurch: Firebrand, 2001. 33-61.
"Alan Loney / John O'Connor / John Geraets." brief 22 (2001): 63-73.
"Translating Poetry." Poetry NZ 23 (2001): 125-34.
"Case Studies." brief 20 (2001): 23-29.
"Anne." Here After. Living with Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Poetry. Edited by Stu Bagby. Auckland: Antediluvian Press, 2000. 35-40.
"An Inside Narrative: Recent Works by Alan Loney." Ab.ww [A Brief Description of the Whole World] 17 (2000): 70-79.
"Necessary Oppositions: Avant-garde versus Traditional Poetry in New Zealand." Poetry NZ 21 (2000): 80-83.
