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1 Warehouse Restoration i "In the end it all went in the skip : a hundred years", Ella Jeffery , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 117)
1 “Captured Air” Ella Jeffery , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;

— Review of Increments of the Everyday Rose Lucas , 2022 selected work poetry
'Rose Lucas’s fourth book, Increments of the Everyday, is about grief and loss, grappling with distance and isolation, and about the body’s fragility and resilience. The collection is wide- ranging and attentive to “the breathy currents of other worlds” (p. 13) that become legible, or at least visible, when the pace of everyday life slows or stops.' (Introduction) 
1 Little Cove i "I am always going back to Little Cove.", Ella Jeffery , 2023 poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , August 2023;
1 General Tenancy Agreement Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;

'Notions of home and unhomeliness have long been discussed by scholars in relation to Australian poetry, but little scholarly work has explored how contemporary Australian poets interrogate the relationship between renting and constructions of home. As the great Australian dream of homeownership becomes increasingly inaccessible and the availability of public housing declines, a larger proportion of the population privately rent their houses in a lightly regulated and highly competitive rental market (Morris et al 2021: 72). Poetry has long been used to record and preserve the affective dimensions of home, and in this paper I examine a series of poems concerned with finding rental properties, moving in and out of them, and with attempts to create a sense of home in houses that always already belong to others. I discuss the work of three poets whose recent collections grapple with notions of home, stability and security in relation to rented houses: Zenobia Frost’s After the Demolition (2019), Omar Sakr’s These Wild Houses (2017), and Fiona Wright’s Domestic Interior (2017). I argue that in these collections, houses are sites characterised by anxiety, instability, and erasure, rather than stable and secure archives of personal identity and domestic ritual.' (Publication abstract)

1 Ella Jeffrey Reviews Rose Interior Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 194-197)

— Review of Rose Interior Tracy Ryan , 2022 selected work poetry
1 Homebody i "Often we kicked it down at the cooldocks", Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , August no. 4 2022; (p. 41)
1 Biking the Island i "Sweated for hours on parched tar", Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , August no. 4 2022; (p. 40)
1 Open Plan i "I imagined it differently, though I asked", Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , August no. 4 2022; (p. 39)
1 Supertall (432 Park) i "If I wanted stillness, I'd build a bungalow.", Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , August no. 4 2022; (p. 37-38)
1 Nachträglichkeit i "I remember. That evening I was riding", Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 3 2022; (p. 124-125)
1 Stripping the Chicken i "Days later I remember", Ella Jeffery , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 186)
1 Islands : New Ecopoetry by Kristen Lang and Caitlin Maling Ella Jeffery , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 436 2021; (p. 58-59)

— Review of Fish Work Caitlin Maling , 2021 selected work poetry ; Earth Dwellers Kristen Lang , 2021 selected work poetry
'New collections from Caitlin Maling and Kristen Lang are situated in vastly different landscapes but pursue similar ideas about the natural world’s fragility and the imminent environmental catastrophe. Maling’s Fish Work, as its title suggests, is primarily interested in marine life and the scientists studying it at Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef, while Lang’s Earth Dwellers explores mountains, caves, and coastlines in Tasmania and Nepal, examining the myriad complexities of ancient ecosystems. Maling’s and Lang’s new books, their fourth collections, urge readers to attend to the work of millennia that has produced these distinctive ecosystems and, in doing so, to appreciate the urgency of protecting them.' (Introduction)
1 Observer Effect : Three New Poetry Collections Ella Jeffery , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 54-55)

— Review of Harbour Kate Llewellyn , 2020 selected work poetry ; Airplane Baby Banana Blanket Benjamin Dodds , 2020 selected work poetry ; Recipe for Risotto Josephine Clarke , 2020 selected work poetry
1 "The House Will Come to You" : Domestic Architecture in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film Ella Jeffery , Emma Doolan , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 34 no. 2 2020; (p. 277-295)
'The house has long been an archetypal site of Gothic terror and entrapment. The Gothic dwelling is one of the most steadfast conventions of the mode, shifting as the Gothic has shifted through history to encompass a range of sites, from castles to cabins, speaking to ongoing anxieties about the security and stability of the home, nation, family, or self. The Gothic’s “relentlessly ‘architectural’ obsessions” (Castle 88) have been well documented, and Gothic buildings are frequently read as psychological as much as physical spaces. The Gothic edifice functions as a “sensation-machine” (Castle 88) capable of generating the sublime feeling of being overwhelmed by a greater power. The Gothic house, operating on a smaller scale, has likewise been associated with overarching power structures such as the nation, family, or—in the Female Gothic—patriarchy.' (Publication abstract)
1 Twenty-First-Century Australian Poetry Sarah Holland-Batt , Ella Jeffery , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020;
1 Monopoly i "the landlord sold in under a fortnight.", Ella Jeffery , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Your Hands 2020; (p. 47-48)
This poem is in two numbered and titled parts.
1 Soldier Crabs i "This life is all fizz", Ella Jeffery , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 48-49)
1 4 y separately published work icon Dead Bolt Ella Jeffery , Waratah : Puncher and Wattmann , 2020 20769654 2020 selected work poetry

'This is a captivating and varied collection. No matter what Ella Jeffery turns her attention to, her subjects find sharp resolution in language that has been subtly crafted and beautifully honed. These poems carry their insights deftly and intensely, her lens always focussed on those alchemical images that move her work from sensation into perception, from observation into shimmering awareness. Everything shines with the gloss of her highly polished linguistic and imaginative skills. Her work is a triumph and a delight.
– Judith Beveridge


'As its title suggests, Dead Bolt is a meditation on home and its ability to become suddenly unhomely or uncanny. Ella Jeffery’s poetry ranges from the plangent and elegiac to the comic and satirical. It attends to both the eye and the ear; its extraordinary imagery is matched by a marvellous attention to poetry’s sonic capacity. Dead Bolt is a compelling, exquisitely realised debut. 
– David McCooey


'I love Ella Jeffery’s poetry. Like Elizabeth Bishop’s, it is companionable and unshowily surprising, and has perfect timing. Jeffery is clear-eyed and has a gift for the exact word, one that opens a rift. This is a masterly and original first collection—a major work.
– Lisa Gorton'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Collaboration and Its Discontents : Considerations for Creative Writing HDR Students Collaborating on Traditional Research Outputs Alex Philp , Ella Jeffery , Lee McGowan , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 59 2020;
'Collaboration between creative writing researchers in the academy, and particularly the benefits and potential of HDR writing groups, are topics that have drawn increasing scholarly attention. Batty notes that while ‘creative writing is often seen as an isolated practice, it is also one in which practitioners crave connection and people with whom to share their ideas, for moral support and critical feedback’ (2016: 69). While collaboration is vital to developing new networks and communities, the development and maintenance of collaborative practice is often as complicated as it is productive. This article examines some of the deeper complexities of collaborating on traditional research outputs and considers the ways in which creative writing HDR students in particular can develop a range of strategies to navigate collaborative practice. Through reflecting upon several exemplars of collaborations experienced by the authors – including a HDR writing group – this article contends that collaboration is often more complex than the literature suggests. Rather than being conceptualised as an always generative, ideal model for producing research outputs, collaboration should instead be conceptualised, discussed in scholarship, and approached in ways that are as diverse, paradoxical, and fluid as collaborative endeavours are in practice.' (Publication abstract)
1 Writing and Rewriting Australia : ECR Collaboration in Designing and Delivering an Australian Literary Studies Unit Ella Jeffery , Mark Piccini , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 59 2020;
'Collaboration plays an increasingly important role in the academy, and for early career researchers (ECRs) is seen as a particularly central practice for developing community, increasing productivity and building a research profile. Collaborative practices are most frequently adopted in the research space, but we contend that there is also significant value in collaboration between ECRs in unit design and development, teaching-based areas that are traditionally the domain of a single academic. In this paper, we discuss our collaborative approach to the design of an Australian literary studies unit named Writing Australia, in which the Unit Coordinator, a full-time lecturer and ECR, shared the space of unit design and development with the ECR contracted to deliver the unit’s tutorials, a final-year PhD candidate. This approach enabled the unit’s tutor to acquire crucial skills that are required for academics roles, but the collaborative approach also resulted in the development of a unit that was itself far more focused on collaborative, multi-vocal delivery that asked students to engage with Australian literature not as a static body of texts, but as varied, diverse, and ever-evolving discussion about what it means to be Australian, as well as the ways in which Australia as an ideological edifice is endlessly constructed and reconstructed in our national literature.' (Publication abstract)
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