“This collection of poetry sounds fascinating.”
Gary Lachman, author of Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
Book Launch at St James Wine Vaults – Bath. Friday 25th September (6:30pm)
Free entry: enjoy live acoustic music and poetry readings.
Join us in celebrating the launch and pick up your signed copy on the night for £10 (RRP £12.50)
POETRY FOR COMING BACK TO LIFE
The Tough of Love is a book of poems about love and death and the dark night of the soul. Wonder and horror, resurrection and faith. A mythopoetic journey of psychospiritual development; from childhood loss and emotional turbulence, our inherent relationality and its difficulties, to the fruits of well-earned maturity. An expedition into the depths and dimensions of being to understand the true complexity of reality, and a work in service to the love that made it possible.
“With an assured, informed & lyrical style, that deftly utilises a rich palate of colours in all dimensions, Jamie Louisa Jones creates a veritable Symphony of Existence…”
Seb Cooper, singer-songwriter, sixstringsouthpaw.com
“During the fifteen, sometimes turbulent, years of the growth of this collection, Jamie Jones has recorded her engagements with the shaping forces bringing her inner life to consciousness…
The poems are often down-to-earth-blunt (‘tough it out…How else is there to craft a soul?’) but they are also full of Jamie’s wide and varied experience of the lyric, from Joni Mitchell to George Herbert, which pulls in and sends out sparks shooting in multiple directions…
Down-to-earth, blunt, practical and yet here is also wild imagination…
Strong thoughts, deep feelings, and always, Jamie’s deep commitment to finding reality and telling truths about it, so that life might be felt more…”
Jane Davis, founder of The Reader Organisation
“A rare thing: a poet who has read Dąbrowski closely and put the theory to work in her own life. Jamie writes about death and grief the way people actually live them, and she doesn’t look away.”
Chris Wells, PhD, Dąbrowski Center
“Jamie’s poems were inspired by some of the themes explored in The Dao of Complexity – embracing those pits of despair that feel like facing death; living the life we have not the life we want; trusting in the rightness of our own authenticity. Poetry opens us to silence, helps us to experience and express the inexpressible, and in that expression arise the beginnings of transformation.”
Jean Boulton, author of The Dao of Complexity