IN CONVERSATION: CAROL JENKINS AND EMMA FIELDEN WITH JANE GILLESPIE

This conversation took place at Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Australia, on 30 March 2021, for the Coalescence.

Carol Jenkins is a poet based in Sydney, Australia. At university, she studied science, followed by a graduate diploma in Labour Law and a Masters in Public Health. After a career in chemical regulation and assessment she has pursued creative writing since 2003, and in 2007 established River Road press which produces audio CDs of Australian poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and her poem “Shirt/Post Shirt” was commended in the 2007 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her latest book A Crooked Stile was published by Puncher & Wattman in August 2019. She has two earlier collections of poetry Fishing in the Devonian (2008) and Xn, (2013), both shortlisted for Premiers’ Awards, and an illustrated novel Select Episodes from the Mr Farmhand Series (2016), all from Puncher & Wattman. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French and Russian.