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Jacket’s homepage has received over half a million visits since 1997. All issues are available here, featuring thousands of pages of poetry, creative prose, reviews, interviews, author photos, and informative articles. Address:

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All issues of Jacket magazine are archived in perpetuity by [»»] Pandora, Australia’s free Internet Archive at the National Library of Australia.

Plaudits: In January 2000 Jacket was selected for an ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica Internet Guide Award’. Jacket has been chosen as a ‘recommended site’ on a number of international web sites — see our [»»] About Jacket Page.

Note from the Editor: I cannot accept poetry contributions that I don’t specifically ask for — I don’t have the time or the space to handle them yet. If you’d like to submit a review, article or interview, send a half-page synopsis with your return email address. Because Jacket is free and has no advertising and no source of income, I regret that I cannot offer to pay for contributions.

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Copyright Information (for Jacket authors and copyright owners): Jacket asks for single-use non-exclusive electronic world rights, in order to protect your rights from exploitation by others. You retain all copyright, and you may publish the work anywhere in any form at any time. You don’t have to ask Jacket’s permission: just do it. It would be nice if you mentioned previous appearance in Jacket.

About Jacket: a brief note:

Jacket is a literary magazine that appears two or three times a year, distributed to every town, city and country in the world via the Internet and given away free, at http://jacketmagazine.com/

It was founded by John Tranter in a rash moment in 1997, to showcase lively contemporary poetry and prose. You can’t actually subscribe to the magazine — there is no print issue. Just drop by every few weeks: all the past issues will always be there, and the current number will be posted piece by piece until it’s full. You can also read future issues as they are posted piece by piece.

Jacket has no advertising, and no source of income. Contributors offer their work free. The staff (of two) work for nothing, and basic internet costs are covered by Australian Literary Management.

After eight years of doing everything on his own — editorial, typesetting, design, code, photography, Internet — John Tranter asked poet Pam Brown to join as Associate Editor, in 2004.

The magazine now has some seven thousand printed pages on the Internet: poems, interviews, special features, book reviews, articles, photographs, colloquia, and email discussions. It has offered special features on Polish poetry, literary conference reports, Turkish poetry, computer experiments, Mexican poetry, a panel discussion on experimental US poetry, modern French poetry, a section of poetry from Overland magazine (Australia) and New Zealand poetry, Canadian poetry, a special issue devoted to poetry and prose from 1930 to 2002 from Cambridge England, poetry from the Low Countries, humour in poetry, and literary hoaxes.

Issue 13 was a co-production with New American Writing magazine, Issue 14 was a co-production with Salt Poetry magazine, and Issue 19 was a co-production with Verse magazine (US).

The home page has recorded more than three-quarters of a million visits overall.

Some comments:

"The prince of online poetry magazines is Jacket, run from Australia by the poet John Tranter.... The design is beautiful, the contents awesomely voluminous, the slant international modernist and experimental.' — Peter Forbes, The Guardian (UK).

"I polled poet and writer friends .... Almost everyone I contacted pointed me to Jacket..." — Glen Helfand, SF Gate magazine, San Francisco.

"As a contributor, I've simply never had as much response to anything I've published elsewhere (including pieces in large-circulation magazines such as The Nation or Village Voice).... everyone I run into seems to have read it." — Eliot Weinberger, New York, in Sulfur magazine.

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[»»] Jacket 37: Early 2009