Contact
Jake Goetz is a writer and researcher based on the lands of the Gadigal people (Sydney, Australia). He has published three collections of poetry: meditations with passing water (Rabbit Poets Series, 2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance, Unplanned Encounters: Poems 2015–2020 (Apothecary Archive, 2023), and Holocene Pointbreaks (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). He has been the recipient of various fellowships and residencies for his writing and research, and his poetry has also been commended and shortlisted for various prizes, most recently the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2023), and was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize. Further shortlists include the University of Sydney’s David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize (2023); the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2023/2022); and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2022). In 2023, he obtained a doctorate’s degree of creative arts in writing and literature from the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. He recently began tutoring in creative writing at the University of Wollongong and is the reviews editor at the Australian journal of ecopoetics Plumwood Mountain.
RCC Research Project: Toward A Bioregional Poethics: An Archipelagic Survey of Australian Longform Ecopoetics
Selected Publications:
- Holocene Pointbreaks. Puncher & Wattmann, 2024.
- Unplanned Encounters: Poems 2015–2020. Apothecary Archive, 2023.
- “The Blue Hills Archipelago: Longform Poetics & the Ecological Anti-Epic.” Axon: Creative Explorations 13, no.2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.54375/001/gungzusra7.
- “Placing a Poetics of Anti-Propaganda: Collage as a Spatial Mode in the Poetry of Laurie Duggan.” Special issue, TEXT 25, no. 64 (2021): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.30982.
- Meditations with Passing Water. Rabbit Poets Series, 2018.
- “Re-Imagining Place: A Psychogeographic Reading of Carmine Frascarelli’s Sydney Road Poems.” Cordite Poetry Review, no. 86 (2018). http://cordite.org.au/essays/re-imagining-place/.