Jayne Fenton Keane is a contemporary Australian poet and poetry performer. She is known for making innovative use of multimedia including Adobe Flash, for publishing her poetry on the web, and for poetry performance.[1] [2]
Keane was born in the United Kingdom. At age one, she emigrated to Australia with her parents, Leslie and Linda Fenton.[1]
Keane was educated at Griffith University, completing a BA (Hons) with her thesis, "Slamming the sonnet", and a PhD, with "Three-dimensional poetic natures". She completed a second PhD, "The Language of Ecotourism", at the University of Southern Queensland.[3]
Keane has published several books of poetry and a CD recording. She is active as a performance poet and in multimedia poetry.[4] The Transparent Lung was adapted for radio in collaboration with Mike Ladd.[5] Keane has received a Varuna Writers' Centre Fellowship and a grant from Queensland Arts, and has performed at festivals in Australia, Canada and the United States. She is the founding and current director of National Poetry Week.[6]
Liz Hall-Downs described The Transparent Lung as "intensly 'modern'", and compares Keane's progression as a poet from her previous work Ophelia's Codpiece to The Transparent Lung to Sylvia Plath's progression, noting the clarity of words and emotional directness.[2]
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