He's an internationally recognized poet who grew up on a farm on the southeast coast of Australia, a place that he says provided the early training for his newfound prowess in HTML what he calls the art of tinkering with machinery. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Lyn, with whom he travels the world and has raised two children, and for whom he works at her Sydney-based agency, Australian Literary Management. He has written 10 books of poetry, worked in radio, in typesetting, as a janitor, and as an editor, but his current interest is Jacket . It's the best of both while it rushes beyond the often stiff environment of the print poetry journal, it avoids the shoddy editing and irritating confessions of the hastily built Web page. This is a magazine without credo or chic, a magazine that refuses to be literary or linear in the established kind of way.
Jacket can be overwhelming, but it is also intuitively presented and indexed.
His precise editing is refreshingly consistent throughout. The graphics and the type are cleverly retro and easy on the eyes. And there are just the right amount of bells and whistles a few moving graphics, some subtle tricks with color. Jacket is hip without being obnoxious, and good-looking without being too glamorous. It's Jacket 's scope, though, the sheer vastness of its contents that make it so worthwhile.