Jaya Savige



‘Chops and surrender’: Nam Le Interviews Jaya Savige

Jaya Savige was born in Sydney, raised on Bribie Island, and lives in London. Jaya has lived overseas since 2009, when he received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to read for a PhD on James Joyce at the University of Cambridge (Christ’s College).

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Surveying What Adheres

What was your status as of Monday? Low on cling film. Fine for surface spray. Name one highlight of your current job. Midway on my journey to the Tube the sticky men come tumbling down the glass of the High …

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Cultural Partnership with Monash University and North American Book Distribution

We are pleased to announce that Cordite Publishing Inc. and The School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University have entered into a major new cultural partnership. As Jaya Savige, Poetry Editor of The Australian, wrote in his …

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Alison Clifton Reviews Jaya Savige

In an essay for The Australian titled ‘Poetry Lives, OK?’ Jaya Savige examines the ongoing debate about the state of contemporary Australian poetry. Essentially, he argues that this debate is not so much “current” as “perpetual.”

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Francois Sagat O’Malley: Glad Pews and the Good Steeple

you don’t always want what you say, or say what you do (do you): Notes of a Warring Class, J.H. Prynne   Lodge the pre-budget ambit claim. Graphs observe their models. The steam rises. The sport of the day’s nadir. …

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National Museum

Jaya Savige lives on Bribie Island, in Moreton Bay, Queensland. His work has appeared in various newspapers, magazines, journals and e-zines, including The Age, Australian Book Review, Journal of Australian Studies, Cultural Studies Review, Meanjin, Overland and The Weekend Australian Review. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Val Vallis Poetry Award.

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