Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson is a poet, essayist, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. His poetry collection Human Looking (Giramondo, 2021) won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Andy’s poems are included in the anthologies Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe, UK, 2025) and Every Place on the Map Is Disabled (Northwestern University Press, US, 2026). He is a co-editor of Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability (Puncher & Wattman, 2024), and he writes and rests on Dja Dja Wurrung country. His new book Askew is forthcoming with Giramondo in October 2026.

Compassion is, and has always been, the distinguishing feature of Andy Jackson’s work…[a compassion which is] hard-won rather than casual; unflinching rather than sentimental.
Geoff Page, The Australian

Titles

Poetry

96 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published October 2026
ISBN 9781923106772

Following his acclaimed exploration of disability and deformity in Human Looking, the poems in Andy Jackson’s new collection Askew widen the lens, to feel their way into the impairments of our ecologies and our dialogues. How might our world itself be disabled? How can we live together within this reality? Engaging in aslant conversation with musicians and composers, poets and artists, while reckoning with historical and contemporary thinkers, this is poetry that affirms the value of collaboration and interdependence, with all of its promise and difficulty.

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Poetry

120 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published October 2021
ISBN 9781925818857

Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender.

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Videos

Andy Jackson on ABC 7.30