Jill Forster | Author
Jill Forster
Phone: +61 2 8514 5201
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24.01.2022 Hydrangeas= nostalgia. Always they grew under-appreciated in our garden , until now. The hortense has no pretense, round, substantial and bold, ... dependable, pink or blue? whatever suits you when you’re old. originimprint.com/motherofthechild
23.01.2022 A point of Optimism: If you’ve been dealt lemons, they say, make lemonade! My grandmother’s house smelt of lemons - such a scent of nostalgia . 'MOTHEROFTHECHILD’ is a book of nostalgia and of optimismdespite and because of the lemons. originimprint.com/motherofthechild
16.01.2022 Recent collaboration: Like the songwriter and musician, a poet too writes in search of a song. To turn one of my poems into a song, I’ve had the fun of collaborating with talented musician, Sharny Russell from Byron Bay. sharnyrussell.com
14.01.2022 a pollen-drunk bee emerges from its suspended moment among the heady perfumed petals. My mother would have loved that sketch. That exacting moment captured like the still life of the flower arrangement, a synthesis melded to the importance of the whole. Like day-by-day life, it is designed, constructed and arranged. #bees #motherofthechild #jillforster #memoiraboutmymother #childhoodmemories #mothersmemories #poetry #australianmemories #australianpoetry #australianwriter #originimprint
13.01.2022 At morning light over the water, low cloud would hover and fill my line of sight with its fine particles imparting their poetry, binding into an impenetrable meaning, one replicated from the teased out white silk of clouds in wide-blue skies stretching from yesterday. The sun’s morning light filtered through the mist slinking along the hills... #motherofthechild #jillforster #memoiraboutmymother #childhoodmemories #mothersmemories #poetry #australianmemories #australianpoetry #australianwriter #originimprint http://www.originimprint.com/motherofthechild
10.01.2022 Musician, Ben Folds, said in late 2019 that making art is about following what’s luminous to you and putting it in a jar, to share with others. My book, MOTHER OF THE CHILD, is the jar and I’m sharing with you its contents that shine with their own meaning - stars, tears, shells and tumbleweeds... and silver asparagus tongs... Find out more, and read some fragments at originimprint.com/motherofthechild
06.01.2022 These tales have seen the rise and fall of laughs rushing in while the tears filled with sapphires and grit are trickling out to sea #motherofthechild #jillforster #memoiraboutmymother #childhoodmemories #mothersmemories #poetry #australianmemories #australianpoetry #australianwriter #originimprint http://www.originimprint.com/motherofthechild
04.01.2022 Sandpipers pecking in the sand on life’s shore, that was our family life. We did manage sometimes to fly away though only across oceans of fantasy. #sandpiper #australianbeachlife #childhoodmemories #mothersmemories #poetry #australianmemories #australianpoetry #australianwriter #originimprint #motherofthechild #jillforster #memoiraboutmymother http://www.originimprint.com/motherofthechild
01.01.2022 Recently I’ve been writing a short crime story set on Sydney’s wharves and I took some photos of Sydney Harbour, certainly inspiring scenes. This excerpt, very different in tone, comes from ‘Mother of the Child’ (Origin Imprint): 'we might catch the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly for a big day out with milkshakes and sandwiches cut in quarters. On the ferry we would notice how the ferryman, with the skill of a sorcerer, flicked the slithering rope, shiny sleek in his hand...ling of it, around and over,, backwards and downwards in easy loops over the silver crucifix until he held us tight to the shore. Not yet, not time to venture out. And then the quick piping of the ferry’s horn and we would rush away on a new adventure in the sunshine.' Photos taken in Sydney, 2020
