My wonderful wife Vanessa has made a new book! Cut-up poetry plus psychedelic collages – a real mind-bending treat from the woman Val Denham called “a female William Burroughs for the age of desperation.”
Vanessa Sinclair: “The Pathways of the Heart”
Vanessa Sinclair’s new collection of poems and collages is rooted in the dark earth of death, but to an equal degree it also celebrates the vibrant life-force that grows inside this eternal darkness, and the transformation, love and magic we all need to live. The constant interplay of motion and emotion filters fragments of questions we try so hard to avoid but always fail to. The Pathways to the Heart are many but they need to be trodden lightly, with love and deep appreciation. Once there, you can assemble the fragments of your life and see what they say – the poetry of an existence that is inevitable until it is not.
Trapart Books, 2021. Paperback, 178 pages with 31 colour collages. Also available as an e-book.
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9198691937 (check your regional Amazon store for better postage rates)
E-book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091DMY62D
And let’s not forget how it all began: with the album “The Pathways of the Heart (for Jess)”
And why not launch a Vanessa Sinclair film program at the same time…?
“Vanessa Sinclair – Poetry In Emotion” is an experimental film program featuring words, music, and images by Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahamsson, Xambuca, Witchbeam, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mikronesia, Joachim Nordwall, Julie Fotheringham, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Katelan Foisy, Val Denham, and Sheer Zed.
The program contains the following films from 2016-2018: This is New York, The Scarlet Woman, Pushing the consistent failure, Message 23, Believe in any space, Make the Witches Come, Fetishize Immediacy, Wormhole Staircase, Are you doing the work angelic?, The spirits of a place call, 23rd Mind, Dream and Body and Voice, Someone is waiting for me, To be back with you, Waiting, It can be chaotic and disturbing, Hunter’s Moon, Eleven, The path behind you