Lincoln Jaques

Lincoln is our resident Scholar for September 2020. Currently living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, he holds an MA and a Master of Creative Writing. His poetry and fiction have been published in New Zealand, the US and Ireland, most recently in a fine line (NZ Poetry Society), Mayhem, Fast Fibres, The Blue Nib, Fresh Ink 2, Flash Frontiers and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook (Massey University Press). Lincoln was a finalist and ‘Highly Commended’ in the 2018 NZ Emerging Poets. 

His influences are the sharp descriptive passages of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities; the minimalist style of Alessandro Baricco; the acute observation of life and nature from Mary Oliver, Zbigniew Herbert and Raymond Carver; and the religious reflectional writings of Julian of Norwich and the early Desert Fathers and Mothers.