Prose
Jaya has published over one hundred thousand words of prose — in the form of nonfiction essays and literary and cultural criticism — in such places as the Times Literary Supplement, POETRY (Chicago), London Magazine, The Weekend Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review, among others. Here is a sample.
Selected Essays
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The Key in the Sky
or The MINUTES of an Extra-ordinary Meeting of the NSTASS to discuss the serious matter of (Child) Language Acquisition during Lockdown.
in London Magazine, COVID-19 Special Issue (2020): 54-62.
🖋️ CREATIVE NONFICTION 🖋️ PERSONAL ESSAY
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‘The Key in the Sky’, London Magazine,
‘Untitled’ [COVID-19 Special Issue] (2020), pp. 54-62.
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Creation’s Holiday
On Silence and Monsters in Australian poetry
in POETRY (Chicago), 208.2 (May 2016): 169-84.
🖋️ LITERARY ESSAY
📖 Read ‘Creation’s Holiday: On Silence and Monsters…’ by Jaya Savige
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“Creation’s Holiday: On Silence and Monsters in Australian Poetry,”
POETRY (Chicago), 208.2 (May 2016): 169-84.
Read online @ Poetry Foundation.
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Underwriting Ulysses
Bloom, Risk and Life Insurance in the Nineteenth Century
in James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by John Nash (Cambridge University Press, 2014): 77-94.
🖋️ SCHOLARLY BOOK CHAPTER
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in James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by John Nash (Cambridge University Press, 2014): 77-94.
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The Passage
On the death of a parent, Bribie Island and the artist Ian Fairweather
in My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent , ed. by Susan Wyndham (Allen & Unwin 2013): 94-114.
🖋️ MEMOIR 🖋️ PERSONAL ESSAY
📖 Read ‘The Passsage’ by Jaya Savige
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‘The Passage’, My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent,
ed. by Susan Wyndham (2013): 94-114.
Selected Criticism
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‘Resolute skin-shedder‘ | Rev. of Pacific Light et al. by David Mason | Times Literary Supplement, 22 Sep 2023
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‘Reading life as if it’s art‘ | Rev. of Inspector Inspector by Jee Leong Koh | Times Literary Supplement, 10 Feb 2023
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‘De-colonizing‘ | Rev. of Unhistory by Kwame Dawes & John Kinsella | Times Literary Supplement, 23 Sep 2022
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Rev. of Doubtful Points: Joyce & Punctuation by E. Bonapfel & T. Conley | James Joyce Broadsheet 106 (Feb 2017)
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‘Lexical Lightning’ | Rev. of: Waiting for the Past by Les Murray | Weekend Australian, 23 May 2015
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‘The Pity of It‘ | Rev. of Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson, et. al | Weekend Australian, 5 Jul 2014
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‘Words take shape…‘ | Rev. of Typewriter Art by Barrie Tullett Weekend Australian, 8 June 2014
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‘Anthologies & the Poetic Stockmarket’ | Rev. of Australian Poetry Since 1788 by G. Lehmann & R. Gray | APJ 2.1 2012
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‘Meticulous retracing…‘ | Rev. of Rimbaud in Java by Jamie James | Weekend Australian, 7 Apr 2012
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‘Catharsis Interruptus‘ | Rev. of Point-counterpoint by Javant Biarujia | Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Jul 2008
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Rev. of Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature ed. by A. Heiss and P. Minter | Australian Book Review, May 2008
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‘New Take on Old Trojan Course‘ | Rev. of The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. Robert Fagles | Sydney Morning Herald, 20 Jan 2007
Image Credits
‘Selected Essays’ background image by Jr Korpa on Unsplash; ‘The Key in the Sky’ image by Vincentiu Solomon on Unsplash; ‘Creation’s Holiday’ image by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash; ‘Underwriting Ulysses’ photo of James Joyce portrait by Constantine Brancusi, British Museum; ‘The Passage’ photo © Jaya Savige. ‘Selected Criticism’ background image by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash.