Press
Articles and Interviews
2024
- Interview with Beth Torrance, 95bFM
- ‘What the critics have to say about the 2024 Ockhams long list’ by Kete Books for RNZ
- ‘Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist announced – who will win and who should win?’ by Mark Broatch, New Zealand Listener
- ‘Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024: The longlist has landed’ by Claire Mabey, The Spinoff
2023
- ‘Xmas: the best poetry books of 2023’ by Erena Shingade, Newsroom
- ‘The Year’s Best Verse’, New Zealand Listener
- ‘The Pleasure of Reading’ by Jess Hughes, Otago Daily Times
- “The definition of poet is expanded by Jardine, who has an MA in Classics, the Alex Scobie research prize and a Marsden grant to her credit,” ‘Next generation leaders list: 30 people who are making their mark’ by Paul Little for New Zealand Listener
- ‘WORD Christchurch 2023: An unruly evening at Te Matatiki Toi Ora’, Christchurch City Libraries Blog
- Bookenz with Morrin Rout, Plains FM
- ‘From Page to Stage’, Cityscape
- DPAG Late Breakfast with Zac Hoffman, Radio One 91FM
- Audio of poems from BITER, NZ Poetry Shelf
- “…as the collection testifies, a poet of incredible versatility, talent and bravery,” Caffeine & Aspirin with Neil Johnstone, Radioactive FM
- This week’s best-‘selling books – 27 April 2023’, Newsroom
- Interview with NZ Booklovers
- ‘This week’s best-selling books – 21 April 2023’, Newsroom
- Don’t Snooze the Muse Art Podcast (YouTube)
- OARsome Morning Show with Jeff Harford, OAR FM
- ‘Published poets with Timaru connections to share life experiences in verse’, Timaru Herald
- Poetry Snaps Podcast (Spotify)
- Interview with Unity Books Wellington (Instagram)
2022
- “… three wide-eyed poets – Rebecca Hawkes, Claudia Jardine, and myself – decided to undertake a poetry-reading tour across the South Island earlier this month, emulating the Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick tours of old,” ‘The crowd goes wildish’ by Jordan Hamel, Newsroom
- ‘Poetry on tour’, Otago Daily Times
2021
- “Actually, I laugh my ass off: Claudia’s a charismatic and very funny host…” ‘Starlings, Dead Authors, and Sexy Polliwogs: the WORD Foundation Pop-Up Festival’ by Erin Harrington, Flat City Field Notes
- Fridays with DNA, RDU 98.5
2020
- ‘A Poetry Shelf Gathering: AUP New Poets 7 read and talk poetry’, NZ Poetry Shelf
- ‘This week’s best-selling books – 27 August 2020’, Newsroom
2019
- “A songwriter and poet who has been distinguishing herself on a nationwide scale since she was fifteen years old.” Recharted with Finn Johansson, RadioActive FM
- Introducing: Claudia Jardine, RNZ
2018
- ‘A Conversation with Five Writers: A Kind of Imaginary Collective’, Starling
2017
- Pubs and Poetry – Claudia Jardine and Michael O’Leary, RNZ
2016
Reviews
BITER
- “Think… Britney Spears’ musical rendition of Beowulf.“ Dadon Rowell, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
- “The poem’s voice teems with Jardine’s expertise in classics and romantic elegy, tinted by the present conditions of New Sincerity.” Elese Dowden, Cordite
- “Jardine surprises us with the mundane, and finds exactly the right place for the surprising.” Andi C. Buchanan, takahē magazine
- “These poems deal in making small, ordinary moments beautiful; they deal in romance; they deal in friendship and delight.” Ray, Scorpio Books Website
- “Claudia Jardine’s first poetry collection, BITER, is as ferocious and sexual as the title suggests… Love permeates the volume, whether frank or fleshy, familial or tender.” Erica Stretton, Kete Books
- “Jardine juxtaposes poems from her own life experience with translations of epigrams (short, concise poems) from the Palatine Anthology (all in Greek, probably compiled in the tenth century). If you think this sounds like a lot, you are right. But it works, wonderfully.” Liz Breslin, Landfall Review Online
- “Claudia says she has taken ‘creative liberties’ in her translations, and these liberties are a good time… But she’s not shy to remind us, too, that a sweet love poem can melt the most cynical of hearts.” Laura Williamson, 1964
- “It’s rare that a book has both such precise silliness and wonky sexiness, but BITER revels in it.” harold coutts, bad apple
- “BITER is a pretty rough, beautiful thing.” Hamish Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
- “Her ardent love of the classics is a highlight, with new translations of ancient Greek epigrams interwoven with modern, sexy, and remarkably tender pieces of poetry.” Anneke, Unity Books Wellington Instagram
- “Claudia’s epigrams are sprinkled throughout the collection like sherbet, they fizz in your mind, little fascinations, so sweetly formed, and then, invitingly, hook you into the enduring power and reach of love, sexuality, hunger, recognition.” Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf
- “Claudia Jardine is a classicist with a wide knowledge of Greek and Roman verse, and she puts it to use in her debut collection BITER.” Nicholas Reid, New Zealand Listener
AUP New Poets 7
- “…without exception, her erudition is both effective and lightly worn,” Maddie Ballard, a fine line
- “…the contemporary kick hits its mark. How many of us know how to sew? How many of us were frowned upon for selecting domestic subjects at secondary school?” Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf
- “They’re all quite talky poets, these three.” Harry Ricketts, RNZ
- “Claudia Jardine’s The Temple of Your Girl is the quirkiest of the three collections but is no less interrogating and impressive than her bedfellows’,” Lynley Edmeades, Academy of New Zealand Literature