Jacinta Le Plastrier is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer, poet, essayist, editor and publisher. Her writing, journalism, criticism and poetry have appeared in multiple anthologies, along with The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, ABC 24 Hours, The Wheeler Centre (Hot Desk Fellowship), sick leave journal, Cordite and Meanjin, among others. She is the former Chief Executive at the national poetry body, Australian Poetry, where she also sat as Publisher. This role included the co-founding of the Best of Australian Poems annual series with Toby Fitch and Ellen van Neerven. 

Jacinta Le Plastrier is available for editing (poetry and non-fiction), both one on one for poets/writers themselves, and for multiple publishers. This is based on high-level experience. Jacinta is also resuming her sought after consultations on energetic transformation and creating intentionality. Please email to enquire for timing and fees.

Jacinta’s most recent book is her debut poetry collection, these memories require (P&W, 2025).

these memories require takes the reader across poetic thresholds into the connected spaces of the familial, philosophical and corporeal. Within this volume, poetry is a deftly crafted alchemy that reminds us of presences that return to skin and that shape our understanding of self. We are reminded of worlds that we know but may find too difficult to face… In its careful accrual over time, this compelling collection demonstrates Le Plastrier’s generative and exciting lyricism in full light. – Ann Vickery

This book, these memories require, written over 12 years, means a lot to me, not personally but collectively. Its core thematics are around the extraordinary scholarship and thinking of a range of writers addressing what is known as ‘haunting’, a term created by Avery F. Gordon in 1997 in a treatise so influential it resides still across the world on curricula addressing traumas & ‘the unspeakable’. This latter term is by Judith Herman, who has also contributed seminally to thinking in these treacherous terrains; along with these two there is a range of other writers, and poets who together give me a sense of community, one that has literally kept me on the right side of the asylum door at times. I mean this.

The book is dedicated to my incredible daughters & Beloved, but also to all those who witness and fight for justice where there is usually no justice. This is where the magic of what writers can do, their writing, becomes the unerasable. 

—Jacinta Le Plastrier