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The Spiritual Recluse and the Bebop Prism by John BrewsterAdd to Basket |
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Published :2009
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The Spiritual Recluse and the Bebop Prism is a creative experiment in poetry and music.
It was inspired by a poem I had published about St Monans. It came to me to link the spiritual modes of the Fife saint St Monan to those of three giants in jazz bebop: the saxophonist John Coltrane, the guitarist Tal Farlow and the pianist Thelonious Monk. So many signs and correspondences connected these musicians to St Monan that I conceived of the idea of putting the original poem through a creative filter of words and music, a prism of faith and meditation, to see if the other side of the poem might appear.
This idea developed into a project where I wrote fifteen new poems, each incorporating a line from the original St Monans poem, and a sixteenth poem, the other side poem, called St Monan. Alongside this, I wrote eleven pieces of music, corresponding to lines in the original poem, and to the linkages I had made to the musicians. The result was a poetry and music CD booklet that expressed the interconnectivity I had hoped for.
The project was an exploration of the physical and spiritual dynamics between word as music-invocation and music as word-invocation: a mutual, prismatic experience. Its aims were to encourage imaginative insight and debate about the creative process, using Fife and her spiritual traditions as an example of the universality of inner and outer seeking and self-expression.
John Brewster is a published poet, writer and creative writing tutor in English and Scots. His writing has appeared in a variety of books and magazines, and on the Internet.
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