A Song to Keep - A kinship of poems and drawings

A collaboration between artist and poet exploring archetypes and belonging from South Africa, through London to the Scottish Highlands

These poems reflect a journey from a past delineated by racism, trauma, and violence towards a present life of peace and intense natural beauty. Permeated with nostalgia and loss; songs of an immigrant community alienated in their own land, but pierced with fierce hope, faith in redemption, and a determination that we should all belong.

Striking black and white charcoal drawings balance a page with sculpted poems. A high class, designer, coffee-table book for the soulful and searching.

About the author

Olivia Findlay was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1973. She lived in Jo’burg and made her mark in the fashion industry in the country. Her first collection of poetry, A Song to Keep, explores themes of loss and longing, belonging and placelessness. The poems are pierced with fierce hope, faith in redemption, and a determination that we should all belong, which perhaps only the truly dispossessed can give voice to.

Summary

A collaboration between artist and poet exploring archetypes and belonging from South Africa, through London to the Scottish Highlands.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Findlay
• Assisted by: Domenica de Ferranti (Illustration)
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781910895573
• ISBN: 978-1-910895-57-3
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 195 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 164 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Poetry, ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Scotland, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ART / Women Artists, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, sculpture, Women's health, Republic of South Africa, Nature & existence of God, Poetry by individual poets, Drawing & drawings, Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands, ART / Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Central Scotland, Drawing and drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon or pastel, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / European / General