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Nationality
  
Australian

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Rae Jones

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Occupation
  
Poet, novelist, short story writer and politician

Books
  
It Comes from All Directions: New and Selected Poems

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Rae Desmond Jones (born 1941) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and politician.

Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far West of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are central to his language and perception. He writes in colloquial language, which sometimes explodes in powerful narratives packed with ambiguous sexual and violent imagery, especially in his earlier poems and some of his novels. His original and bleak vision is frequently mediated by gusts of earthy humour and unexpected sensitivity and honesty.

He became a popular mayor of Ashfield, an inner Sydney Municipality, from 2004 to 2006, and during that period held together a broad coalition of Labor Party, Green and Independent representatives. He has said that for him "poetry and politics are mutually contradictory, and he finds consolation from each in the arms of the other."

References

Rae Desmond Jones Wikipedia


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