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Marjon Mossammaparast Marjon Mossammaparast i(A110990 works by)
Also writes as: Logan Jones
Born: Established:
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Iran,
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Middle East, Asia,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Marjon Mossammaparast has been a teacher of English. Born in Iran, she has also lived in Italy, Macau, and China. Mossammaparast has published under the non de plume Logan Jones. She lives in Melbourne, where in 2018 she was working as a teacher of English. Her first collection of poetry, The Sight, was published by Cordite Books in 2018.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to travel to Tasmania for research on a poetry collection
2016 longlisted The Ron Pretty Poetry Prize For 'The Spanish Revelation'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon And to Ecstasy Perth : Upswell Publishing , 2022 24893448 2022 selected work poetry

'And To Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matching it with the belief we are also spirit beings. At its core, this work contemplates the desire to move beyond the limitations of bodies, and into an expanded metaphysical notion of identity, carried by intuition. 

'In its arrangement in three parts, the poet uses displaced fragments and mere glimpses; through call and response of landscapes and countries, there is a constancy and insistence of reconciliation. This is the language of the exile: not just geographically transposed, but through a spirit constrained by the physical and seeking return home—'  (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
y separately published work icon That Sight Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2018 14214767 2018 selected work poetry
2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award
2019 winner ASAL Awards Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
2018 commended Anne Elder Award
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