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'''Jennifer Rankin''' (born '''Jennifer Mary Haynes''') (18 November 1941 – 8 December 1979) was a 20th-century Australian [[poet]] and [[playwright]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://april.edu.au/rankin-j/index.shtml |title=APRIL - Jennifer Rankin Contents page<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=19 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013162330/http://april.edu.au/rankin-j/index.shtml |archive-date=13 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jennifer Rankin|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100404170|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Oxford Reference|language=en|doi=10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100404170}}</ref> Rankin was born in and grew up in [[Sydney]] and went to Ravenswood Methodist School. She then studied English and Psychology at [[University of Sydney]] and completed a Diploma of Education at [[University of New England, Australia|UNE]] in 1968. She worked mainly in education in Australia and [[England]].
'''Jennifer Rankin''' (born '''Jennifer Mary Haynes''') (28 November 1941 – 8 December 1979) was an Australian [[poet]] and [[playwright]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Rankin |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100404170 |access-date=2021-11-01 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cassidy |first=Bonny |title=Pre-thought: Jennifer Rankin's Littoral Topography |journal=Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=511–526 |doi=10.1093/isle/isr085 |jstor=44087004 }}</ref>


==Early life and education==
She married first John Roberts and secondly the painter [[David Rankin (artist)|David Rankin]] (1969). She died from cancer in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Austlit|title=Jennifer Rankin|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27263|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-01|website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-12-14 |title=Jennifer Rankin, poet |pages=8 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88213111/jennifer-rankin-poet/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref>
Jennifer Mary Haynes was born in [[Chatswood, New South Wales]], on 28 November 1941.<ref name="unswpapers">{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Papers of Jennifer Rankin [MSS 348] |url=https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/special-collections/guide-papers-jennifer-rankin-mss-348 |access-date=2021-11-04 |publisher=[[University of New South Wales]] |language=en}}</ref> She grew up in [[Sydney]] and went to Ravenswood Methodist School. She then studied English and psychology at [[University of Sydney]], graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Rankin |first=Jennifer |date=September 1976 |title=Jennifer Rankin's Bees |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81228432.pdf|magazine=Theatre Australia |page=24 |access-date=2021-11-04|via=[[CORE (research service)|CORE]] and [[University of Wollongong]]}}</ref> At university, she was affiliated with the [[Sydney Push|Downtown Push]], "a loose group of artists, bohemians, and libertarians which included [[Clive James]] and [[Germaine Greer]]".<ref name="brooks1994" /> She later completed a Diploma of Education at [[University of New England, Australia|UNE]] in 1968. She worked mainly in education in Australia and [[England]].


==Writing==
Her first surviving poems date from 1969, her first play, untitled, from 1973. Some of her plays, there are eight in all, were produced for stage and radio during her lifetime. She received an [[Australia Council]] Senior Literary Fellowship in 1978 and had two books of poems published, the first, ''Ritual Shift'' was published in 1976. Her ''Collected Poems'' was edited posthumously by [[Judith Rodriguez]] and published in 1990.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122302385 |title=Jennifer Rankin: A poet of significance |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=64, |issue=20,203 |location=Australian Capital Territory |date=4 August 1990 |accessdate=3 November 2021 |page=8 |department=Saturday Magazine |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Robert |date=1976-06-19 |title=Showing feeling for sound |pages=17 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88213417/showing-feeling-for-sound/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref>
Her first surviving poems date from 1969; her first play, untitled, from 1973. Some of her plays (there are eight in all), were produced for stage and radio during her lifetime. She received an [[Australia Council]] Senior Literary Fellowship in 1978 and had two books of poems published. The first, ''Ritual Shift,'' was published in 1976. Her ''Collected Poems'' was edited posthumously by [[Judith Rodriguez]] and published in 1990.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 August 1990 |title=Jennifer Rankin: A poet of significance |volume=64 |page=8 |work=[[The Canberra Times]] |issue=20,203 |department=Saturday Magazine |location=Australian Capital Territory |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122302385 |via=National Library of Australia |accessdate=3 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Robert |date=1976-06-19 |title=Showing feeling for sound |pages=17 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88213417/showing-feeling-for-sound/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Simpson |first=R. A. |date=1979-06-09 |title=Wedding poets to the visual |pages=25 |work=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88308201/wedding-poets-to-the-visual/ |access-date=2021-11-04 |authorlink=R. A. Simpson}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Works==
===Bibliography===
*''Art workshop''. (1974)
*''Ritual''. (1976)
*''Art Workshop'' (1974)
*''Ritual Shift'' (1976)
*''Earth hold''. (1978)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harrison |first=Martin |date=1979-06-02 |title=Holding the elements |pages=19 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88304107/holding-the-elements/ |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref>
*''Earth Hold'' (1978)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harrison |first=Martin |date=1979-06-02 |title=Holding the elements |pages=19 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88304107/holding-the-elements/ |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Curry |first=Neil |year=1979 |title=[Review of ''Earth Hold'' by Jennifer J. Rankin, John Olsen] |journal=Ambit |issue=78 |pages=68–69 |jstor=44332381 }}</ref>
*''The mud hut''. (1979)
*''The Mud Hut'' (1979)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Atwood |first1=Margaret |last2=Rankin |first2=Jennifer |year=1979 |title=From the Mud Hut |journal=The North American Review |publisher=University of Northern Iowa |volume=264 |issue=2 |pages=9–17 |jstor=25125686 }}</ref>
*''Jennifer Rankin: Collected Poems''. Ed. [[Judith Rodriguez]] (1990)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Jennifer |date=1990-09-22 |title=Memories stitched together skilfully |pages=171 |work=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88304300/memories-stitched-together-skilfully/ |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref>
*''Jennifer Rankin: Collected Poems''. Ed. [[Judith Rodriguez]] (1990)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Jennifer |date=1990-09-22 |title=Memories stitched together skilfully |pages=171 |work=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88304300/memories-stitched-together-skilfully/ |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref>

===Plays===
*''Bees'' (1974)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Costantino |first=Romola |date=1976-07-19 |title='Oink' go pigs, no 'buzz' in Bees |pages=7 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88316468/oink-go-pigs-no-buzz-in-bees/ |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Adam |first=Victoria |date=4 August 1976 |title=Review - Bees |work=Sydney Tribune}}</ref>
*''Razorback Mountain Journey'' (1976)<ref name="austlitbio">{{Cite web|date=8 December 2011|title=Jennifer Rankin|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27263|access-date=2021-11-04|website=[[AustLit]]|language=en}}</ref>
*''Night Spaces''<ref name="austlitbio"/>
*''Surfaces''<ref name="austlitbio"/>
*''I Heard the Door Close''<ref name="austlitbio"/>
*''A Steady Face''<ref name="austlitbio"/>
*''Catwalk''<ref name="austlitbio"/>
*''The Darling's Been Done''<ref name="austlitbio"/>

==Personal life and legacy==
She was first married to John Roberts, having a son in 1965. After separating in 1966, she lived for a time with writer [[Frank Moorhouse]]. In 1969, she married painter [[David Rankin (artist)|David Rankin]].<ref name="brooks1994">{{Cite book|last=Brooks|first=David|title=The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1994|isbn=0-585-26169-5|editor-last=Hamilton|editor-first=Ian|editor-link=Ian Hamilton (critic)|page=[[iarchive:oxfordcompaniont00hami/page/440/mode/1up|440]]|chapter=Rankin, Jennifer (1941–79)|oclc=45733957|author-link=David Brooks (author)}}</ref> She died in [[Melbourne]] from cancer on 8 November 1979.<ref name="unswpapers" /> Her daughter with Rankin, Jessica, later became an artist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=Jennifer Rankin |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A27263 |access-date=2021-11-01 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-12-14 |title=Jennifer Rankin, poet |pages=8 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88213111/jennifer-rankin-poet/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Purcell |first=Andrew |date=2016-07-15 |title=Artist Jessica Rankin's new show charts the search for her mother's grave |language=en |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-jessica-rankins-new-show-charts-the-search-for-her-mothers-grave-20160714-gq5ugj.html |access-date=2021-11-04}}</ref> Jennifer Rankin Lane in Canberra is named in her honour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2007 |title=Public Place Names (Franklin) Determination 2007 (No 3) |url=https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/DownloadFile/di/2007-243/current/RTF/2007-243.RTF |access-date=2021-11-04 |publisher=ACT Government}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 April 2011 |title=What's in a name? |page=2 |work=The Canberra Times}}</ref>


==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal|last=Cassidy|first=Bonny|title=The Sounds of Sight: Jennifer Rankin's Poetics|journal=Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature|year=2007|volume=6|pages=91–102|issn=1833-6027|url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10230}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/finding_aids/rankin_jennifer.html Guide to the Papers of Jennifer Rankin] at the Australian Defence Force Academy Library
* [https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/guide-papers-jennifer-rankin-mss-348 Guide to the papers of Jennifer Rankin] at the [[University of New South Wales]]

*[http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/321/745 Bonny Cassidy 'The sounds of sight: Jennifer Rankin's poetics' ''JASAL'' 6 (2007)]
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For the Australian politician, see Jennifer Rankine.

Jennifer Rankin (born Jennifer Mary Haynes) (28 November 1941 – 8 December 1979) was an Australian poet and playwright.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Jennifer Mary Haynes was born in Chatswood, New South Wales, on 28 November 1941.[3] She grew up in Sydney and went to Ravenswood Methodist School. She then studied English and psychology at University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962.[4] At university, she was affiliated with the Downtown Push, "a loose group of artists, bohemians, and libertarians which included Clive James and Germaine Greer".[5] She later completed a Diploma of Education at UNE in 1968. She worked mainly in education in Australia and England.

Writing

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Her first surviving poems date from 1969; her first play, untitled, from 1973. Some of her plays (there are eight in all), were produced for stage and radio during her lifetime. She received an Australia Council Senior Literary Fellowship in 1978 and had two books of poems published. The first, Ritual Shift, was published in 1976. Her Collected Poems was edited posthumously by Judith Rodriguez and published in 1990.[6][7][8]

Works

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Bibliography

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Plays

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Personal life and legacy

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She was first married to John Roberts, having a son in 1965. After separating in 1966, she lived for a time with writer Frank Moorhouse. In 1969, she married painter David Rankin.[5] She died in Melbourne from cancer on 8 November 1979.[3] Her daughter with Rankin, Jessica, later became an artist.[16][17][18] Jennifer Rankin Lane in Canberra is named in her honour.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "Jennifer Rankin". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cassidy, Bonny (2011). "Pre-thought: Jennifer Rankin's Littoral Topography". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 18 (3). Oxford University Press: 511–526. doi:10.1093/isle/isr085. JSTOR 44087004.
  3. ^ a b "Guide to the Papers of Jennifer Rankin [MSS 348]". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  4. ^ Rankin, Jennifer (September 1976). "Jennifer Rankin's Bees" (PDF). Theatre Australia. p. 24. Retrieved 4 November 2021 – via CORE and University of Wollongong.
  5. ^ a b Brooks, David (1994). "Rankin, Jennifer (1941–79)". In Hamilton, Ian (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. p. 440. ISBN 0-585-26169-5. OCLC 45733957.
  6. ^ "Jennifer Rankin: A poet of significance". Saturday Magazine. The Canberra Times. Vol. 64, no. 20, 203. Australian Capital Territory. 4 August 1990. p. 8. Retrieved 3 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Gray, Robert (19 June 1976). "Showing feeling for sound". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 17. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  8. ^ Simpson, R. A. (9 June 1979). "Wedding poets to the visual". The Age. p. 25. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  9. ^ Harrison, Martin (2 June 1979). "Holding the elements". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  10. ^ Curry, Neil (1979). "[Review of Earth Hold by Jennifer J. Rankin, John Olsen]". Ambit (78): 68–69. JSTOR 44332381.
  11. ^ Atwood, Margaret; Rankin, Jennifer (1979). "From the Mud Hut". The North American Review. 264 (2). University of Northern Iowa: 9–17. JSTOR 25125686.
  12. ^ Strauss, Jennifer (22 September 1990). "Memories stitched together skilfully". The Age. p. 171. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  13. ^ Costantino, Romola (19 July 1976). "'Oink' go pigs, no 'buzz' in Bees". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 7. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  14. ^ Adam, Victoria (4 August 1976). "Review - Bees". Sydney Tribune.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g "Jennifer Rankin". AustLit. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  16. ^ Austlit. "Jennifer Rankin". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Jennifer Rankin, poet". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 December 1979. p. 8. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  18. ^ Purcell, Andrew (15 July 2016). "Artist Jessica Rankin's new show charts the search for her mother's grave". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Public Place Names (Franklin) Determination 2007 (No 3)". ACT Government. 18 October 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  20. ^ "What's in a name?". The Canberra Times. 1 April 2011. p. 2.

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