Edward Jenner (writer)

Edward (Ted) Jenner (born 1946 in Dunedin), is a New Zealand born poet, translator, teacher and researcher of Ancient Greek texts. He has lived in New Zealand and overseas teaching Classics and producing poems, translations, and scholarly articles. His poetry and research have been reviewed and remarked upon.[1]

"Complete Gold Leaves", being his translations and the original Greek texts of Ancient Greek lamellae with messages on the afterlife for adherents of some unknown cult, appeared in 2016 in the magazine Percutio 2016 (number 10, 2016) along with an article on the relevance of the journeys of the dead from Malakula and the small islands (Vanuatu) to 'Aeneid' VI and Greco-Roman mythology. Gold Leaves (Atuanui Press, 2014), outlines his tentative conclusions about the state of research into these mysterious objects, and contains all of his translations of these texts.

After publishing two short volumes of poetry in 1980 and 1991, Jenner published "Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna" in 2009. Based on this work, the writer Jack Ross has discussed Jenner's 'postmodern classicism' and his attention to landscapes, 'above all those of Africa' along with his 'devotion to the particularities of memory'.[2]

Poet Michael Harlow (Landfall 219, pp.191-195) referred to subjects such as 'certitude, the insistently rational and dogmatic ... and the posturing of much prevailing literary narcissism' as being 'challenged and unmasked' in "Writers in Residence".

His latest book "The Arrow that Missed" (Cold Hub Press 2017)has been reviewed in Landfall 234 (pp.179-182) by Johanna Emeney and in Poetry New Zealand Yearbook No.52 2018 (pp.308-310) by Jack Ross. The former calls attention to his evocations of landscape and the latter to his 'examination of "cracks in the edifice", the things we can never know, can never reconcile with one another'. But perhaps the most comprehensive review of this volume is that by Richard von Sturmer ("brief" 56, pp.120-121) who examines the prose poem in general and the possibilities 'offered by fragmentation'.

Works
  • Gold Leaves, an account of the so-called 'Orphic' Gold tablets, with translations from the Ancient Greek. Atuanui Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9922453-7-5
  • Percutio 2016. No.10 Special issue devoted to two projects by Classicist and poet Edward Jenner. ISBN 978-1-877441-53-0
  • Dedications (Omphalos Press, 1991). ISBN 0473011867
  • Writers in Residence and Other Captive Fauna (Titus Books, Auckland, 2009). ISBN 978-1-877441-09-7. 130 pp.
  • The Love Songs of Ibykos: 22 Fragments (The Holloway Press, 1997).
  • A Memorial Brass (Hawk Press, 1980).
  • 'The arrow that missed' (Cold Hub Press,Lyttelton, 2017) ISBN 978-0-473-39818-7. 52 pp.

References
  1. "Ted Jenner speaks out : Jenner and co. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Archive.org. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  2. "Jack Ross - ka mate ka ora - nzepc". Nzepc.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 June 2015.


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