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    Spoken Medicine
    Spoken Medicine
    Spoken Medicine
    Ebook59 pages28 minutes

    Spoken Medicine

    By Gabrielle Journey Jones

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    ‘Gabe Journey Jones’s poetry uniquely combines words and rhythm into recipes for healing, conversing and connecting with ourselves and one another. Her libretti are astute, set to bars, accents, BPM (beats per minute) and broken-up beats; they pulsate like the sanctuary of a mother’s heartbeat and become Spoken Medicine.&r

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateOct 12, 2017
    ISBN9781760414313
    Spoken Medicine
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    Gabrielle Journey Jones

    Gabrielle Journey Jones was born on Gadigal land, Sydney, and is from Māori and African-American blood-lines. Adopted into a loving family, she grew up in Canberra. Gabrielle has performed her poetry at local, national and international events in diverse venues including Sydney Opera House, Friend in Hand Glebe, Kent Street Café, Radio Skidrow, Django Bar, Women's Library, 'Woman Scream' Festival NSW Parliament House, Sydney Summer Spiritfest, 'Rebellious Words' Red Rattler 2016 and Pride Carnival Alice Springs. She is the winner of open mic and slam events including Word Salad 2017 launch; 'Say It Sing It' South Coast Writers Centre and Enough Said Poetry Slam Wollongong 2016; 'Bad Slam No Biscuit Poetry Slam' Canberra National Folk Festival 2016; and Caravan Slam Marrickville 2015. She was a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam Sydney Slam 2016. Gabrielle has been involved with many not-for-profit community organisations and government agencies across Australia during her twenty-year career as a social worker. Gabrielle is co-founder and CEO (Creativity Encouragement Officer) of Creative Womyn Down Under, a community initiative established in Sydney, 2006 to connect women and many forms of creative expression. Gabrielle combines creativity and social work ideals in her poetry workshops and drum circles. The launch of Spoken Medicine in 2017 with Ginninderra Press completes a year of dynamic poetry community collaborations. Gabrielle joined the Red Room Company to deliver poetry workshops in schools in NSW. Red Room is committed to making poetry a meaningful part of everyday life. Gabrielle also became a member of the South Coast Writers Centre board of management. Gabrielle contributed to the inaugural Unspoken Words festival this year and will join the team of artistic directors in 2018. Creativity as social, political and personal action is the cornerstone of Gabrielle's work as a performance poet. The words in this collection are best enjoyed read out loud.

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      Spoken Medicine - Gabrielle Journey Jones

      Spoken Medicine

      Spoken Medicine

      Gabrielle Journey Jones

      Ginninderra Press

      Spoken Medicine

      ISBN 978 1 76041 431 3

      Copyright © text Gabrielle Journey Jones 2017

      Cover art by Amalina Wallace

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2017 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Jai Jones and Sofara Jones

      The creative sparks of many hearts

      The rhythms inside my rhymes

      I love you both, always

      (All. The. Time.)

      – Mumma Gabe

      Contents

      Gratitude

      Freedom

      Creativity

      Family

      Identity

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Gratitude

      Thank you to my family and friends who have encouraged me to write and share my poetry. Much love and respect to my parents, Patricia and Alan Jones who have graciously led the cheer squad for my forty-four years of creative expression.

      Deep appreciation for the passionate gatherings of poets that I’ve been lucky enough to meet and enjoy the ‘welcoming balm of spoken word community’ (‘Spoken Medicine’).

      Big love and gratitude for our creative adventures that have inspired my writing: Julia Jacobs, Corinne Roberts and Mystral Ford (Tranceportation), Ca$h Flo (Revoluvtion), Rebecca Gould and Kerri Ellis (Unpublished Poetry Lab), Mignon Lee-Warden, Debra Jones, Ineke Veerkamp and Ellen Scott (Rainbow Sistas Music/Sydney Spiritfest), Stephany Basia, Katherine Vavahea and Marcela Del Sol.

      For your generous professional support with the creation of this book: Merle Conyer, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Jenni Nixon, Esther Olivares, Candy Royalle, Louise Wadley, Amalina Wallace and Wilfred C. Roach.

      Special thanks to Georgina J.D. Abrahams, co-creator of Creative Womyn Down Under for fifteen years of enthusiastic support and especially for our wonderful children.

      Finally, much love to Jai and Sofara for being a very encouraging captive audience during my performance poetry rehearsals and for providing thoughtful feedback on my work. You two are the pinnacle of all my blessings.

      Freedom

      Freedom Rap

      performed with djembe

      Freedom vibrates like the sound of my drum

      Freedom vibrates like sound (like sound).

      Journey MC on the mic.

      May all of my words shed light

      as

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