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1 Meeting Points Jo Langdon , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , September / Spring vol. 80 no. 3 2021; (p. 190-196)
1 Mary Regards the Virgin Jo Langdon , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 242 2021; (p. 78-82)
1 Composure i "'I can't wait for your next book,", Jo Langdon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 32 2020; (p. 76-78)
1 Biographic i "Sparrows: I didn’t know. After the girls’ home, her sisters’ trouble, there was", Jo Langdon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: In Your Hands 2020; (p. 57)
1 Tend i "I could some days mistake for a flower", Jo Langdon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 159 2020; (p. 83)
1 Review Short : Vahni Capildeo’s Seas and Trees and Jennifer Harrison’s Air Variations Jo Langdon , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

— Review of Air Variations Jennifer Harrison , 2017 selected work poetry
1 One Hand Jo Langdon , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 189-190)
1 Pull It Away Jo Langdon , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 78 no. 3 2018; (p. 15-20)
1 Infelicity i "Malapropos, my slow mind & mouth", Jo Langdon , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 232 2018;
1 2 y separately published work icon Glass Life Jo Langdon , Parkville : Five Islands Press , 2018 14390469 2018 selected work poetry

'Through Jo Langdon's gaze, the ordinary world is transformed into a snow globe of wondrous possibility. The city and its objects move impressionistically, summer bodies dissemble, and daily routines take on an uncanny glow. Domestic realities are glimpsed or suggested, small histories reveal a chiaroscuro of darkness and light.' 

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1 Apropos i "At the wedding he says", Jo Langdon , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
1 ‘Geelong Checks Its Modernist Warranty’ Jo Langdon , Cameron Lowe , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

'In 1890, an American aeronaut named Millie Viola departs the Geelong showgrounds in a hot air balloon, in order to give an assembled crowd of onlookers a parachute jump display. Her ascension followed foiled attempts earlier in the week, but, according to the Geelong Advertiser’s archives, ‘Mademoiselle Viola’ at last ascends – to the gratification of ‘an increasingly dubious crowd’ – to around 5000 feet (1540 metres), and comes close to being swept into Corio Bay. She manages to swing her way to land and alight in Pevensey Crescent – a few hundred metres from the space in which this essay’s authors currently live and write – though another archival source suggests she instead alights on the beach. In either case, the event has an impact on her next display: The Kyneton Observer reports, on 31 May, 1890, that preparations were prolonged ‘owing to the balloon being wet, it having dropped into Corio Bay in the early part of the week, on the occasion of an exhibition at Geelong.’' (Introduction)

1 ‘Kindness Is a Passage Too’ : New Writing by Merlinda Bobis Jo Langdon , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , April 2018;

'Merlinda Bobis is a writer whose work transcends. This choice of adjective risks sounding rapturous or breathless, but it speaks to the visionary and startling qualities of the work of this Filipino-Australian author, as well as her work’s range. An award-winning transnational, cross-disciplinary writer and scholar, Bobis is the author of prose fiction and poetry, academic discourse, and dramatic works for radio and stage. She writes in Bikol, Filipino and English, demonstrating what the critic Dolores Herrero has described as a ‘defiant willingness’ to engage with her ‘rich bicultural heritage’.'(Introduction)

1 Tide i "How it felt held under", Jo Langdon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2017;
1 Pulse i "‘I don’t know many words, only blue,’", Jo Langdon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 1 2017;
1 Landing i "Hour of bright & dim; such stillness you could", Jo Langdon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 August no. 55.0 2016;
1 In Place i "How the night can bloom", Jo Langdon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 13 2016;
1 What Do You Tell Jo Langdon , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 222 2016; (p. 65-67)
1 Unbecoming i "In the summer of bruises never", Jo Langdon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry 2016; (p. 38)
1 Negation Jo Langdon , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 146 2016; (p. 99)
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