PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD
Body Count shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
“The narrator speaks of what it is to live with an invisible illness and disability, being under the cis-male gaze, and questions smartly without didacticism of being in constant negotiation with climate change, capitalism, and consumerism, and the shifting dynamics of politics.”
REVIEW
A Review of Body Count at SAD Mag.
“What some may find inexpressible is viewed clearly through Jamieson’s critical lens.”
Read the full review by Hannah Seraphim on SAD MAG’s blog.
BLOG
On self-care & writing about trauma.
“Self-care can look like many things—like Lorde’s 2500 km move or a five-minute guided meditation. It varies moment-to-moment and person-to-person, but I think the easiest way to conceptualize it is as an expression of self-love, or the actions and behaviours through which we express and affirm our value and worthiness.”
Read my blog post for Learn Writing Essentials.
INTERVIEW
On writing without memory, Covid-19, and what poetry can do for us now.
“It’s frustrating to know that, even with the temporary COVID increase for people who are on disability assistance, people are still receiving at least $500 less than people on CERB [Canada Emergency Response Benefit]. And CERB is a direct acknowledgment that that person receiving it is not labouring. When both of those bodies aren’t labouring, why is one worth more?”
My interview with The Tyee is now live.
ESSAY
On the body, pain, and beauty.
"For years I have been trying to write a book about beauty, because I modelled when I was younger, and I’m supposed to know something about it. But everything I know about beauty I learned from rivers, and everything I know about having a body I learned from pain."
My essay “Know Not What” is The Vault’s featured story for the month of May.
INTERVIEW
On isolation, saying “fuck you” to the status quo, and writing to my best friend.
"I’m not interested in writing towards anyone I have to impress, or protect myself from, or perform my pain for, because I’m not interested in being vulnerable within that kind of dynamic."
My interview with Read Local BC is now live.
ARC Poem of the Year Shortlist
My poem “Hold Me In The Palm Of Your Mind” is shortlisted for the ARC Poem of The Year Contest.
“How to be / sick & ambitious is a question / I can ask but not yet answer.”
Read the full poem here.
REVIEW
A starred review for Body Count in Quill & Quire.
"Rooted in the body and always remaining self-aware, Jamieson's writing is in a style all her own […] Refreshing in its candour and complexity, Body Count is a powerful first collection."
Read the full review by Sheniz Janmohamed in the April issue of Quill & Quire.
CBC POETRY PRIZE LONGLIST
My poem “If You Are Silent” is longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize.
"I wanted to acknowledge the silences I have lived with and through and to direct attention, love and care to people who had stories they didn't want to tell or couldn't."
Read the first stanzas and an interview about the poem at CBC.
METATRON PRIZE
Body Count places third in the Metatron Prize, judged by Anne Boyer and CA Conrad.
"Body Count is about: misogyny and institutional betrayal, precarity and trauma, learning to live with an invisible disability, and the isolation of illness."