I just spent £20 on a poem
I did not have the money to be doing this. BUT OHMIGAWD I WANT HER TO PUBLISH THIS BOOK. Go help her raise the funds by buying a poem. You get a POEM. Personally, hand-written by KATIE JANE GARSIDE herself. AND a signed photo. That’s all kind of cool too, no?
[I apologise for the abuse of the CAPS button. I am excited]
Happy 42nd Birthday Katie Jane.
Thanks to Jakob for reminding me!
I can’t believe she’s 42. I swear both she and Crispin found the fountain of youth 10 years ago!
“I try to spend most of the time getting out of the way of myself so life can live through me rather than me live through life.”
Katie Jane Garside
“I’d rather live in the space that is in between time, in between the seconds. It’s the bit where I absorb, where I’m no longer an individual. That’s where I’d like to live, that’s what I aspire to.”
Katie Jane Garside
“self preservation comes at such a price, sometimes, most times i want to be left clean alone, though its worth remembering the walls start jostling for position when alone is too alone, context is everything to be ‘amongst’, life was ‘bad’ back then, now you could never call it ‘bad’, it is stimulating, dangerous, challenging and the work is working, so i did escape, what can i say more than that really, ‘do you want to fucking fight me?’, welsh accent, well yes, better that than lying down for the long sleep, better than endless attempts at miraculous healing, here’s the news: there is no illness, i just got trapped in a lift for a while, nothing more, when you can’t open a door it is fucking frightening, fight and flee in enclosed spaces is messy and sometimes the door never opens, nobody turns the power back on and infact the building has collapsed in on the lift shaft and you are entombed, it does happen but it hasn’t happened to me yet even though i have lived most of my life as if that were my perpetual state”
Katie Jane Garside, blog
“The more I expose myself the more protected I am… I think in a way I’ve transposed terror. Things that would make me terrified- I find that very easy now. I know that feeling, terror, so well, to be so frightened, that it almost doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. And so that becomes a very comfortable place for me.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPI3hoGY9og
