School of Social & Cultural Studies
Albany Campus, Auckland

Dr Jack Ross

MA Auckland, PhD Edinburgh, Certificate in Translation AUT, CLTA AUT.

Lecturer

English Programme

Jack teaches Academic and Creative Writing, as well as giving some lectures on New Zealand Literature.

Room AT2.32, Atrium Building
Phone (09) 414 0800, Extn 9506
Email J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore MSC
Auckland, New Zealand

• Academic Writing
• Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction)
• Life Writing (Biography and Autobiography)
• New Zealand literature

• European Representations of South America
• The Thousand and One Nights in European Culture
• Non-European Prose Fiction Traditions
• Multimedia Approaches to Contemporary Poetry
• Fantasy & Science Fiction

http://mairangibay.blogspot.com/

Books:

The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis: A Novel . ISBN 0-9582586-8-6. Auckland : Titus Books, 2006.

Trouble in Mind . Titus Novella Series. ISBN 0-9582586-1-9. Auckland : Titus Books, 2005.

[details on Titus Books website: http://titus.books.online.fr/html/Trouble.html ]

Monkey Miss Her Now & Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know: Short Stories . ISBN 0-476-00182-X. Auckland : Danger Publishing, 2004

Chantal's Book. ISBN 0-473-08744-8. Wellington : HeadworX, 2002.

[details on HeadworX website: http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/author/rossj.php ]

Nights with Giordano Bruno: A Novel . ISBN 0-9582225-0-9. Wellington : Bumper Books, 2000.

[details on Crywolf Books website: http://www.crywolfbooks.org/bruno.php ]

City of Strange Brunettes . ISBN 0-473-05446-9. Auckland : Pohutukawa Press, 1998.

•  Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance , edited by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp. ISBN 1 86940 367 3. Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2006.

[details on AUP website: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/new/new_home.cfm ]

• The Myth of the 21 st Century , edited by Tina Shaw & Jack Ross. Auckland : Reed, 2006.

[details on Reed Books website: http://www.reed.co.nz/products.cfm?view=3684&catID=15 ]

•  [Where Will Massey Take You? Life Writing 2 , edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University : School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005.

•    Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian , edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland : The Writers Group, 2004.

•  Golden Weather: North Shore Writers Past & Present , edited by Jack Ross & Graeme Lay. ISBN 0-908561-96-2. Auckland : Cape Catley , 2004.

•  [your name here]: Life Writing , edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University : School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2003.

(magazines)

•  brief 24-32. ISSN 1175-9313 (2002-2005)

•  Spin 33,36,39,42 & 45. ISSN 0113-8227 (1999-2003)

Anthologies, Chapbooks, Online & Periodical Publications:

(poetry)

•  Love in Wartime. Wellington: Pania Press, 2006.

"from Tiger Country." In Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn & Mary Paul. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2006.

•  “After Apollinaire” & “Paul Celan: Poems from Schneepart (translations into English).” Percutio 1 (2006) http://titus.books.online.fr/Percutio/Percutio.htm.

•  “Zen and the Art of America’s Next Top Model” & “Free Love.” OBAN 06 Online Poetry Anthology: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/oban06/ross.asp

•  “Invocation,” “Wang Po’s Preface to Poems from the Pavilion of the Prince of T’eng” & “In the Days of The Lord of the Rings.” Magazine Six: The Key West Issue (2006): 100-102.

•  “Ancestral Voices, I.” brief #33 – exile and home (2006): 139-48.

• “After Apollinaire” & Christchurch Revisited.” Takahe 56 (2005): 13 & 20.

•  “from Suburban Apocalypse: Cabin Fever; The Drive-by; Oral; The Accident.” Catalyst 4 (2005): 67-71.

•  “Free Love,” “They’ve,” “No” & “E M O.” Magazine 3 (2005): 25-29, 126.

•  A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy . ISBN 0-473-10526-8. Auckland : Perdrix Press, 2005.

•  Summer Book from Eye Street . Edited by Raewyn Alexander. ISBN 0254-0193. Auckland : Bright Communications, 2005.

•  “ Language School Picnic.” New Zealand Listener vol. 200 (3412) ( October 1-7, 2005 ): 44.

•  “Our Lady.” Fugacity 05 Online Poetry Anthology ( April 21-23, 2005 ) http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/fugacity/ross.asp

•  “Reviewer” & “Cinema of Unease.” Poetry NZ 30 (2005): 87-89.

•  “A Question of Faith.” Papertiger 04 (2004).

•  “A Sunday Walk” & “Coromandel.” Poetry NZ 28 (2004): 91-92.

•  Tupelo Hotel: Winter Readings at Tupelo . Edited by Mark Pirie. (Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2004)

•  “Greatest Hits” – JAAM 21 , An Anthology of Writing 1984-2004. Edited by Michael O'Leary & Mark Pirie ( Wellington : JAAM with HeadworX / Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2004)

•  “Signs,” “Quasimodo's Last Poem” & “New Zealand Golf (and English) Academy.” Poetry NZ 26 (2003): 83-85.

•  “Tiger Country” & “ from A Bus Called Mr Nice Guy: Misadventures in India .” JAAM 18 (2002): 90-100.

•  “Nouvelle Vague.” Landfall 202 (2001): 111.

•  “Withdrawal Symptoms.” New Zealand Listener 3196 ( August 11-17, 2001): 62.

•  “Jack's Metamorphoses (Part 2).” brief 19 (2001): 70-79.

•  Featured Poet in Poetry NZ 22 (2001): 11-26.

•  The Britney Suite . Auckland : Perdrix Press, 2001.

•  “In the Cave of Henry James. ” brief 18 (2001): 28-35.

•  Something Between Breaths: A Collection of Poetry from New Zealand . Edited by Patricia Prime. SELL: Series in English Language and Literature, 54. New Delhi : Bahri Publications, 2000.

•  A Town like Parataxis . Poems by Jack Ross. Photographs by Gabriel White. ISBN 0-473-07104-5. Auckland : Perdrix Press, 2000.

•  All Together Now! A Celebration of New Zealand Culture by 100 Poets . Edited by Tony Cha. Wellington : Valley Micropress, 2000.

•  Jewels in the Water: Recent New Zealand Poetry for Younger Readers . Edited by Terry Locke. Hamilton : Leaders Press, 2000.

•  “Except Once.” New Zealand Listener 3140 ( July 15-21, 2000 ): 44.

•  “Dieting. I'm Hungry too.” A Brief Description of the Whole World 16 (2000): 62-69.

•  “Jack's Metamorphoses I.” A Brief Description of the Whole World 15 (2000): 57-62.

•  When the Sea Goes Mad at Night (anthology) . Poems by Alison Denham, Robin McConnell, Theresia Liemlienio Marshall, Jade Reidy, Jack Ross, and Apirana Taylor. Edited by Theresia Liemlienio Marshall . Auckland : Christian Gray, 1999-2000.

(multimedia)

•  “Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003).” New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/paul/index.asp

•  The Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive . Compiled and edited by Jan Kemp and Jack Ross, with assistance from Edmund King and Mark King. Special Collections Dept, Auckland University Library, 2004. [40 CDs Audio / 2 CDs Texts]. http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/taonga/index.asp

•  “ God's Spy”– text/video: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/birthday/ross.asp

•  “Alan Brunton.” New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/brunton/brief/index.asp

•  “Smithymania.” New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/smithymania.asp

•  The Writing Skills Workshop . Video/Workbook written and presented by Jack Ross, produced by Robert van der Vyver. Otago University : Higher Education Development Centre, 2001. [77 mins]

•  The Perfect Storm . Video by Gabriel White, text by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-07350-1. Auckland : Perdrix Press, 2000. [12 mins]

(fiction)

•  “The Great New Zealand Vortex.” evasion online 2 (4) & 2 (5) (2003) http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/april03/two.html http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/june03/two.html

•  “A Strange Day at the Language School .” Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25.

•  “ Tahiti in 1978.” brief 23 (2002): 36-50.

•  “Tango Summer.” evasion 2 (2000): 20-27.

(articles)

•  “In the Shop of Wah Lee: Denys Trussell – poet, musician, ecologist.” Poetry NZ 32 (2006): 85-94.

•  “The Poetics of Stasis in The 1001 Nights .” Magazine 2 (2004): 7-18.

•  “Going West Five Years On.” Pander Online . www.thepander.co.nz/literature/articles/jross200409.php

•  “A Conversation with Graham Lindsay.” New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/Lindsay/ross.ptml

•  “Introduction to the Translations of Kendrick Smithyman.” Glottis 8 (2003): 91-96.

•  “Kendrick Smithyman: Uncollected Northland Poems,” edited by Jack Ross. brief 26 (2003): 19-49.

•  “Life with Kendrick: A Conversation with Margaret Edgcumbe.” brief 26 (2003): 103-09.

•  “Alan Brunton, my publisher.” New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/brunton/recollections/ross.ptml

•  “ Hong Kong – 2001.” brief 25 (2002): 13-16.

•  “What is Auckland Poetry?” Five Bells vol. 9 (3) (2002): 14-15.

•  Shortlisted in Landfall Essay Competition for “A Strange Day at the Language School .” Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25.

•  “Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens : Poets in Christchurch .” In Complete with Instructions . Edited by David Howard. Christchurch : Firebrand, 2001. 33-61.

•  “Alan Loney / John O'Connor / John Geraets.” brief 22 (2001): 63-73.

•  “Translating Poetry.” Poetry NZ 23 (2001): 125-34.

•  “Case Studies.” brief 20 (2001): 23-29.

•  “Anne.” Here After. Living with Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Poetry . Edited by Stu Bagby. Auckland : Antediluvian Press, 2000. 35-40.

•  “An Inside Narrative: Recent Works by Alan Loney.” Ab.ww [ A Brief Description of the Whole World ] 17 (2000): 70-79.

•  “Necessary Oppositions: Avant-garde versus Traditional Poetry in New Zealand .” Poetry NZ 21 (2000): 80-83.

(reviews)

•  “Death of the Old Gang: Review of Sarah Broom, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry.” Poetry NZ 33 (2006): 96-101.

•  “In Defence of Tracey Slaughter: Her Body Rises: Stories & Poems;” “Smithyman Goes Online: Collected Poems 1943-1995 by Kendrick Smithyman, ed. Margaret Edgcumbe & Peter Simpson; ” & “From the Twilight Kingdom: Olwyn Stewart, Curriculum Vitae.” brief #33 – exile and home (2006): 35-37, 60-62, 106-8.

•  ‘Asclepius'. Poet Triumphant: The Life and Writings of R. A. K. Mason (1905-1971) ( Wellington : Steele Roberts, 2004); Lawrence Jones. Picking up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 12932-1945 ( Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2003). WLWE ( UK ) 40 (2) (2004): 144-47.

•  James McNeish, Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung ( Auckland : Vintage, 2003); Vincent O'Sullivan, Long Journey to the Border: a Life of John Mulgan ( Auckland : Penguin, 2003) WLWE ( UK ) 39 (2) (2002-3): 143-46.

•  Young Knowledge: the Poems of Robin Hyde , ed. Michele Leggott ( Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2003). JNZL 22 (2004): 180-90.

•  Alan Brunton, Fq ( Wellington : Bumper Books, 2002). brief 28 (2003):116-22.

•  Kendrick Smithyman, Imperial Vistas Family Fictions ( Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2002). JAAM 19 (2003): 246-49.

•  Stephen Oliver, Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 ( Wellington : HeadworX, 2001). Poetry NZ 25 (2002): 100-04.

•  Mark Pirie, Reading the Will ( Christchurch : Sudden Valley Press, 2002). Poetry NZ 25 (2002): 104-06.

•  Alan Loney, The Falling: A Memoir ( Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2001). brief 24 (2002): 78-79.

•  David Howard, Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000 ( Wellington : Steele Roberts, 2001). JAAM 16 (2001): 171-75.

•  Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 , ed. Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond , Michele Leggott ( Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2000). NZ Listener 175 (3146) (26/8-1/9/2000): 40-41.

•  Murray Edmond, Laminations ( Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2000); Sue Fitchett & Jane Zusters, Charts & Soundings: some small navigation aids (New Zealand: Spiral, 1999). JAAM 14 (2000): 99-103.