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Frissure: Prose Poems and Artworks
Title: Frissure Binding: Hardcover Author: Brigid Jamie Kathleen & Collins Publisher: POLYGON
- GenresPoetry
40 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2013
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About the author
Kathleen Jamie
71 books326 followersKathleen Jamie is a poet, essayist and travel writer, one of a remarkable clutch of Scottish writers picked out in 1994 as the ‘new generation poets’ – it was a marketing ploy at the time but turns out to have been a very prescient selection. She became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling in 2011.
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May 17, 2017
The teamwork between poet and artist here was very good. Kathleen Jamie writes some lovely moving little bits of prose and Brigid Collins then creates a piece of art to accompany the prose. The artwork is stunning, there is some much going on and it was a real nice touch to include some of the lines from the prose.
The collection is small but a lot of care has been taken, well worth checking out. Favourite from the book...
LINE
What is a line but landscape? Of distant hills, a shore or a river bank reflected in slack water - or the river itself, as seen by a migrating bird. Or a map of that river, etched on parchment.
What is a line but something heard, half-remembered – a fragment of poetry, a scrap of an auld sang. Or a beginning: when an artist first acts on her page.
What is a line? A border, a symbol of defence, of defiance.
The collection is small but a lot of care has been taken, well worth checking out. Favourite from the book...
LINE
What is a line but landscape? Of distant hills, a shore or a river bank reflected in slack water - or the river itself, as seen by a migrating bird. Or a map of that river, etched on parchment.
What is a line but something heard, half-remembered – a fragment of poetry, a scrap of an auld sang. Or a beginning: when an artist first acts on her page.
What is a line? A border, a symbol of defence, of defiance.
August 16, 2022
A beautiful collaboration between writer, Kathleen Jamie and artist, Brigid Collins.
Jamie had just finished some work with the pathology department of a hospital when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. A mastectomy followed and Jamie felt that she wanted to find a way to express her feelings about it and reclaim it from the language of the pathology lab. She teamed up with Collins who took the line of her scar as a starting point for inspiration and they created artworks and prose and poems to explore her feelings. A beautiful, slight volume that is both fascinating and beautiful.
Jamie had just finished some work with the pathology department of a hospital when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. A mastectomy followed and Jamie felt that she wanted to find a way to express her feelings about it and reclaim it from the language of the pathology lab. She teamed up with Collins who took the line of her scar as a starting point for inspiration and they created artworks and prose and poems to explore her feelings. A beautiful, slight volume that is both fascinating and beautiful.
June 28, 2015
As well as being a wonderful writer Kathleen Jamie is wonderfully brave to share her experience so openly.
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