Jo Langdon

Jo Langdon is a writer and educator living on unceded Wadawurrung land. Her work has been awarded fellowships from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, the National Library of Australia, and the Wheeler Centre, and her poetry collections include Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012) and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018), with a new book, Delivery, forthcoming with Vagabond Press in early 2026.

Works By Jo Langdon

‘The Singing Flower is Crying’
Creating art and caring for young children are often considered disharmonious activities. But how do children’s views and voices correspond with poetic expression, breaking open received modes of language and perception?
25 Feb. 2026
‘Kindness is a passage too’: new writing by Merlinda Bobis
The mediation of bilingual migrant writers extends past the challenges of securing publication. Bobis’s two most recent titles, the 2017 poetry collection Accidents of Composition and the 2015 novel Locust Girl, have received surprisingly little a...
2 Apr. 2018

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Jo Langdon

Works By Jo Langdon

‘The Singing Flower is Crying’

‘Kindness is a passage too’: new writing by Merlinda Bobis