The poems in Woman's Head As Jug, organised in four sections, have come from many different sources and it is often impossible to identify a single source one. But virtually all of them have been written as a result of my ongoing collaboration with artist Jane Fordham. One long poem in particular, 'Forest Choir', is a direct result of studying a series of monoprints she was preparing for an exhibition.
Other images here are more random but the women's heads represent an idea that Jane and I had for a wall of women's faces, which may also have contributed to an idea behind the poem, 'Words for Women'. Images of family members have informed poems as well as providing the background to the first section of the book focusing on women's work. Photos from South Africa show the influence of a village in the Limpopo region - Mashau and its surroundings - on the title poem. Photos of funeral horses, Argus headline, Lewes Road, Sheepcote valley, bus relate to the final section of the book that is essentially drawn from Brighton.
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Elephant in the Kruger National Park, South Africa |
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In Marseille |
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View from La Fontasse, Cassis, France |
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Funeral horses |
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Lewes Road |
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Culpeper |
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Monoprint by Jane Fordham
source of Forest Choir |
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Monoprint by Jane Fordham
source of Forest Choi |
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Monoprint by Jane Fordham
source of Forest Choir |
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Monoprint by Jane Fordham
source of Forest Choir |
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Monoprint by Jane Fordham
source of Forest Choir |
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iPad drawing by Jane Fordham |
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iPad drawing by Jane Fordham |
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iPad drawing by Jane Fordham |
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Who was Elsie Sylvanus? |
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My mother, pictured centre, as a child |
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Hannah and Andover Wills in Merthyr Tydfil |
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Looking for my mother's mother's family in the New Forest |
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My paternal grandmother Gladys Wills nee Powell |
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My maternal grandmother Ida White |
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Gladys and my aunt Veronica |
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Advert for dressmaker and milliner |
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Toby jug |
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Face from the Egyptian galleries, British Museum |
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Face from the Egyptian galleries, British Museum |
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She might be Ishtar |
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Face from Pompeii: photo by Giya Makondo-Wills |
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Photo by Giya Makondo-Wills |
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Sculpture of a Venda woman |
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One of the many things I love about Marseille -
there are caryatids everywhere, women's faces
on so many buildings |
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Sheepcote Valley, Brighton |
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Port Pin, Cassis |
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Port Pin |
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Painting of white porcelain by Jane Fordham |
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in the British Museum |
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Lewes Road, Brighton |
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Mashamba potters, near Elim, Limpopo region, South Africa |
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Mashau, in the Soutpansberg, Limpopo region, South Africa |
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Women with water containers, Mashau, Limpopo region |
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Four generations in Nwamatatane, Limpopo region, South Africa |
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Sheepcote valley, Brighton |
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Sheepcote Valley |
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Brighton bus |
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The place that used to be Chesworth Arts Farm, set up by Jane Fordham and David Parfitt |
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An afternoon working on books with Jane |
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Vincent Andover Wills, a portrait by Rolf Harris' grandfather of my great grandfather who was a chemist, dentist and local JP. My father tracked this down years ago. Photo: Merthyr Tydfil Museum. |
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