Jayne Fenton Keane

Jayne Fenton Keane is a contemporary Australian poet and poetry performer. She is known for making innovative use of multimedia including Adobe Flash, for publishing her poetry on the web, and for poetry performance.

Early life and education
Keane was born in the United Kingdom. At age one, she emigrated to Australia with her parents, Leslie and Linda Fenton.

Keane was educated at Griffith University, completing a BA (Hons) with her thesis, "Slamming the sonnet", and a PhD, with "Three-dimensional poetic natures". She completed a second PhD, "The Language of Ecotourism", at the University of Southern Queensland.

Career
Keane has published several books of poetry and a CD recording. She is active as a performance poet and in multimedia poetry. The Transparent Lung was adapted for radio in collaboration with Mike Ladd. Keane has received a Varuna Writers' Centre Fellowship and a grant from Queensland Arts, and has performed at festivals in Australia, Canada and the United States. She is the founding and current director of National Poetry Week.

Reception of work
Liz Hall-Downs described The Transparent Lung as "intensly 'modern'", and compares Keane's progression as an poet from her previous work Ophelia's Codpiece to The Transparent Lung to Sylvia Plath's progression, noting the clarity of words and emotional directness.

Works
Poetry
 * Fissure Blooms (1994) ISBN 0-646-20976-0
 * Torn (Plateau, 2000)
 * Ophelia's Codpiece (Post Pressed, 2002) ISBN 1-876682-23-X
 * The Transparent Lung (Post Pressed, 2003) ISBN 1-876682-51-5
 * Nel with Cat, an ekphrastic poem for Nel Bonte

CD
 * The Stalking Tongue (1999)