About the Book:

All Rage Blaze Light, Anna Jacobson’s third fiery illustrated poetry collection, is for anyone who has ever needed therapy from their therapy. Join Anna in escaping darkrooms to become a colour artist, dancing with pianos resisting magnetism, surviving rentals on the same street as your therapist’s office, becoming trauma’s apprentice, learning to say: don’t tell me how to breathe, crossing through yellow lines to paint with golden thread, and above all, witnessing how words and art can heal and provide solace. Traversing emotional registers with sharp observation and wit, Anna’s poetic voice is experimental in style and form as she powerfully navigates and connects moments with light. Sharing recognition and an understanding with readers about the frustrations of seeking help, this blazing poet digs for agency.

About the Author:

Anna Jacobson is an award-winning writer and artist from Brisbane. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) is her first full-length poetry collection, which won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing and was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship. In 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her poetry chapbook The Last Postman (Vagabond Press, 2018) was published as part of the deciBel 3 series. She has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize, Blake Art Prize and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing.

Anxious in a Sweet Store was Anna Jacobson’s second illustrated poetry collection and was awarded the Jewish Independent Young Jewish Writers Award in 2025).

ISBN: 978-0-6459840-9-5

Cover artwork: Anna Jacobson