Jill Forster
Since completing Mother of the Child, Jill has been collaborating in an art and poetry project, written more than 100 collected poems, and has a set of “short short stories” underway. Her professional articles appear in peer-reviewed journals and research textbooks on the topics of creative thinking and (under) achievement. Her individual poems have been published in collations such as a chapbook (NSW Government Arts Council grant), magazines and online (for the National Library and Royal Botanic Gardens), and her other published writings include the books Think about Creativity, Think about Mentoring, and two poetry books: Lullabies and Honeyed Ramblings.
Mother of the Child
MOTHER OF THE CHILD
A Memoir within a Memoir
By Jill Forster
Paperback
Mother of the Child gives a new perspective, an unfolding of the ways in which the normal becomes unique. Vignettes from a mother’s life reveal memories that are light and dark, joyful and sad, wistful and filled with tension, as if prevaricating between setting sail and staying on the shore. Her hopes, her joys and her struggles are what make her completely individual yet completely representative of the human lot.
Honeyed Ramblings
By Jill Forster
“Honeyed Ramblings” invites readers to ramble through the poems and re-imagine life’s joys and uncertainties. The collection of poems brings focus to images such as the watchful heron that hesitates on a railing, the long sweep of tangerine across the broad sky, tête-à-tête coffee conversations, raiding the vegetable patch, travel and cross cultural coincidence, the light of dawn and dusk, the morning walk, champagne moments and the dusty face of age. The poems help us sway in the sense of the sounds and to listen to the “lull between the waves” - the breath of the heavens themselves. Embracing creativity, we pause to be curious and to wonder at all that is around us whether in human inventiveness or in nature, including the honey bees.