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Jakob Ziguras
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Poet, Translator, & Occasional Philosopher | Books: Venetian Mirrors 2024; The Sepia Carousel 2017; Chains of Snow 2013.

Poetry: https://pittstreetpoetry.com/poet/jakob-ziguras/.
Philosophy: https://independent.academia.edu/JakobZiguras.
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So much going on in this remarkable poem by Joshua Mehigan.
October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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W. S. Merwin
October 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
For any poetry lovers unfamiliar with the work of the wonderful contemporary poet Ellen Hinsey, this beautifully written and insightful review of her most recent book, by Luke Fischer (himself a fine poet and philosopher) is the perfect introduction: www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/ellen-h...
The Invisible Fugue: The Poetry and Metaphysics of Ellen Hinsey
LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on t...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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absolutely shameful. Meanjin is a national icon
September 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that I will be starting a year-long post-doctoral fellowship, in philosophy, in a few months. After focusing on poetry for years, it will be great to have the time and resources to do some concentrated philosophical work again.
April 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I am deeply grateful to Andrew Kuiper for writing this beautiful, uncannily insightful review, and to Steven Knepper, at New Verse Review, for publishing it. It is a rare pleasure to have one's work be so deeply understood by a reviewer:
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A Review of Venetian Mirrors by Jakob Ziguras
Review by Andrew Kuiper
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March 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Being in a rather dark mood today, for various reasons, I was very heartened to discover this thoughtful review of Venetian Mirrors: www.dappledthings.org/reviews/seen...
Mirror, Mirror — Dappled Things
Jakob Ziguras   2024; 279 pp.; $22.95 (paperback) Mirror, Mirror: Review of Venetian Mirrors You’ve almost certainly seen it, can see it now in your mind’s eye: Claude Monet’s painti...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I have three poems in the latest issue of The Borough. Thanks to Clarence Caddell for choosing them: theboroughpoetry.com
The Borough
a journal of poetry
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January 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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“We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and future, is in us or nowhere.”

— Novalis
January 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I'm very pleased to have a short sequence of poems published in this wonderful issue. I haven't finished reading yet, but so far my favourites are poems by J. C. Scharl, Christopher Childers, @pauljpastor.bsky.social, and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social.
New Verse Review Issue 2.1: Winter 2025
The winter 2025 issue, featuring poetry by Amit Majmudar, Sydney Lea, Jean Kreiling, Aaron Poochigan, Midge Goldberg, Debra Bruce, and others.
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January 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This book includes some wonderful responses to the work of Robert Gray, one of Australia's greatest living poets:
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Bright Crockery Days | 5 Islands Press
Too often we leave our tributes too late. Robert Gray is one of the great poets of our age, known to thousands who read him for their HSC or VCE, and beloved of readers of poetry the world over. There is still time to thank Robert Gray for his life of letters and offer an appreciation of his poetry. This book is that tribute. In BRIGHT CROCKERY DAYS, twenty-five writers and artists choose their favourite poem by Gray and speak about how it works and how it touches them, what it has meant to them, and why it matters so much to all of us. The book is an anthology, then, of much of Robert Gray’s best work, chosen by some who have known him; and it is a collection of trim essays that read those poems closely, elucidating and celebrating some of the poet’s best-known and most-loved pieces. Although each essay examines an individual poem, contributors range freely across Gray’s work, placing it in the context of their own lives, and of the poet’s life and work, and speaking of the place each poem occupies in Australian culture, in contemporary literature, and in the poetic tradition at large. The result is Robert Gray in three dimensions—a manifold, astute and affectionate reading of a great poet’s life and work through twenty-five poems those who knew him love best.
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January 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For those in Sydney, fellow poet-philosopher Luke Fischer & I will be offering a six-week poetry workshop in February. It will combine creative writing, close-reading of exemplary poems, & discussion of philosophical texts on imagination & poetry: www.facebook.com/events/52241...
Creative Imagination: Six-Week Workshop in Writing, Poetry and Philosophy
Event in Sydney, NSW, Australia by Luke Fischer and Jakob Ziguras on Sunday, February 16 2025
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January 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A question for any poets who also have a background in (or at least a substantial knowledge of) philosophy: Does the philosophical coherence (even if not expressed in strictly philosophical terms) of a given poet's work and vision affect your judgment concerning the quality of their poetry?
January 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The Kyiv-born Maximilian Voloshin (1877-1932) is not my favorite poet with that surname, but I do love his work. Some of his poems pack an immense rhetorical punch, while others—like the one below—are lyrics of crystalline purity.
November 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I'm very pleased to have a poem forthcoming in the second issue of a fine new US journal: www.newversereview.com
New Verse Review: Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry
The home page for New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry.
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January 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Many thanks to Sarah Day, for writing this insightful review of Venetian Mirrors, and to Australian Book Review for publishing it: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
Sarah Day reviews ‘Venetian Mirrors’ by Jakob Ziguras
Jakob Ziguras – widely published in Australian literary magazines and the recipient of prestigious poetry prizes – was born in Poland and came to Australia as a child with his parents in 1984. He stud...
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December 31, 2024 at 4:47 AM
For anyone interested in the great Owen Barfield or, for that matter, in poetry, philosophy of language, philosophy of history and so on, I wholeheartedly recommend these recent, major contributions to Barfield scholarship:
December 27, 2024 at 12:05 AM
"There is indeed no such thing as literalness. The most we can safely say...is that the literal and discursive use of language is the way in which it is used by a speaker, who is either unaware of, or is deliberately ignoring, that real and figurative relation between man and his environment...
December 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
The necessity one discerns in a great work of art, can't be that of a general law, since this allows of many possible instantiations. It is closer, I think, to the sense one has that once a beloved person exists, in their full individuality, they must exist, as who they are.
December 20, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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I still can’t believe we made it: The recent Oxford Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition presents such solid scholarship from the 30 contributors. (Somewhat) color-synchronized with Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century.
 
#philsky #artsky #feminism
December 17, 2024 at 1:39 PM
"Luke Fischer's rare synthesis of gifts, as a philosopher & poet, allows him to write—with uncommon clarity, authority & existential commitment, from that mysterious space between these disciplines—a work that performs what it claims, enlivening a neglected genre." www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosoph...
Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking
Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poetics. Exploring fragments…
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December 13, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Some of the best poetry I've read in recent years: 1) A Gamble For My Daughter—by Luke Fischer, one of the finest poet-philosophers writing today—is profound, lyrical, at once cosmic and intimate in scope, and beautifully blends philosophical and poetic reflection: vagabondpress.net/products/luk...;
Luke Fischer, A Gamble for my Daughter
A Gamble for my Daughter takes its title from the final poem in Luke Fischer’s third full-length collection, which addresses the dilemmas of raising a child in a world fraught with political unrest an...
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December 8, 2024 at 3:12 AM
My first two collections—along with some responses to my work from poets like Adam Zagajewski, George Szirtes, Kevin Hart, Stephen Edgar and Joshua Mehigan—are available here:
pittstreetpoetry.com/poet/jakob-z...
Jakob Ziguras · Pitt Street Poetry
Jakob Ziguras was born in Poland in 1977 to Polish and Greek parents and came to Australia in 1984. He studied fine arts before switching to a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Sydney. His ...
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December 5, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Yet another translation, published a few years ago, of Jan Kott's beautiful short book Kaddish: Pages on Tadeusz Kantor:
www.seagullbooks.org/kaddish/
Kaddish
Tadeusz Kantor (1915–90) was renowned for his revolutionary theatre performances in both his native Poland and abroad.
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December 3, 2024 at 10:09 AM