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Marcelle Freiman Marcelle Freiman i(A29352 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Johannesburg,
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South Africa,
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Southern Africa, Africa,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1981
Heritage: South African
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1 Re-Membered i "You had been angry too long", Marcelle Freiman , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 10 2023; (p. 78)
1 Jasmine i "For months, smell has eluded, olfactory", Marcelle Freiman , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 11 no. 1 2023; (p. 53-54)
1 In the Garden i "In the garden Kurrawongs wait,", Marcelle Freiman , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 13 2023;
1 Interior in Yellow i "When the world", Marcelle Freiman , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 11 2022;
1 The Dam Marcelle Freiman , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021;
1 3 y separately published work icon Spirit Level Marcelle Freiman , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 23071121 2021 selected work poetry

'Geologists and archaeologists use spirit level tools to find horizontal levels in ground or rock. Similarly, the poems in Spirit Level search for elusive balance points between memory and lived terrain, between past and present lives, between grief and enlightenment. They are connecting threads of lived and familial histories, often perceived through remembered or exigent visual portals. 

'This is Marcelle Freiman’s third book of 37 new poems, a number of which have been published in well-known Australian literary journals. There are poems using longer forms or sequences, exploring the fragmented nature of human experience, making patterns and story from lives in the present or those which are lost. Other, shorter lyric forms articulate shards of memory and perception. Throughout the book, themes of loss seek a balance against moments of light.'

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1 Miro’s Paysage (Landscape) 1927 i "Lunarscape, the echo", Marcelle Freiman , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , September no. 10 2021;
1 Kiata i "Between the blue horizon", Marcelle Freiman , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020-2021; (p. 132)
1 Unstated and Vital : Ekphrasis, Cognition, and a Briefcase Marcelle Freiman , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , May vol. 10 no. 1 2020;

'This essay presents an extension to theorisations of ekphrasis by introducing to this topic of research a cognitive approach to the process of creative writing. An ekphrasis poem would not come into being without an external object, image or art work. Although a draft can be produced in the space of ‘seeing’ and writing, there are many implicit and unstated associations and processes (half-registered, or not conscious at all, but still there) in the space between the engagement with art work or object and the act of writing.

'The writing of the poem involves numerous interactions with the externalised cognitive object/thought, but also with what is cognitively implicit as the creative response starts to take shape in the mind and on the drafted page; the almost immediate engagement with language and embodied actions of writing. This engagement with the visual object constitutes an intimate, complex cognitive system. Drawing on theories of enactive and embodied cognition, memory, language as thought, and Tim Ingold’s work on ‘correspondences’ in cognition of the world, the essay also argues for the power of the imagination and memory in the writing of ekphrasis poetry.' (Introduction)

1 After the War i "In his deepest dreams the ruined", Marcelle Freiman , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 7 2020;
1 White Lines III i "as from great height, look down on how we run", Marcelle Freiman , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 8 no. 2 2018;
1 Brave Face i "A small flame in the storm", Marcelle Freiman , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 8 no. 2 2018;
1 Highveld Morning in Health i "Green of rain on leaves all night:", Marcelle Freiman , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 8 no. 2 2018;
1 Returned i "like a homing pigeon", Marcelle Freiman , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 8 no. 2 2018;
1 Still i "there is a stillness i require", Marcelle Freiman , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2018; (p. 38)
1 Poinsettias i "We know them best in warm summer light", Marcelle Freiman , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 31 no. 1 2017; (p. 49)
1 Exegetical Thinking : A Methodology and Two Expositions Elizabeth Claire Alberts , Willo Drummond , Marcelle Freiman , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 44 2017;

'This article presents a methodology for the exegesis which has been generated through supervisory practice and experience and writer-researchers’ practices of producing PhD theses in creative writing research, with two exemplary, first person descriptions by HDR candidates of their PhD research journeys so far. The proposal here focuses on the creative and cognitive practices brought into play in carrying out each PhD project, asserting that ‘exegetical thinking’ is enmeshed in both creative writing and research processes in a growing ‘spiral’ of complexity and innovation as connections are made between the thesis components in producing original research.'  (Publication abstract)

1 Ekphrasis as Enactment : Towards a Poetics of Contemporary Diaspora Practice Marcelle Freiman , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 7 no. 2 2017;

'This essay emerges as practice-based research generated by my own writing of ekphrastic poetry. It aims to articulate a poetics of diaspora engendered by this practice and its triggers, contexts, dynamics and strategies. In an investigation of questions about ekphrasis raised by literary criticism, the essay considers a network of traditional historical, literary and theoretical approaches, and debates about its validity. It also revisits the sources of ancient ekphrasis in oral delivery and the medieval meditative practices of ekphrasis. Medieval oral and rhetorical reading and delivery focuses on the effect of ekphrasis upon the mind and feelings of the reader or listener, a feature feasibly linked to contemporary ekphrasis as practice, voice and performance. This essay illustrates the emphasis on the workings of creative mind through an example and commentary on the composition of one of my own poems, where the contexts of its writing – of migration, memory, ambivalence and temporal displacement – have significance for the development of a poetics of diaspora practice.' (Publication abstract)

1 1 Patrick White's Briefcase i "The wild mind wears a tie", Marcelle Freiman , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 23)
1 ‘Gethsemane’, on Patrick White i "Gethsemane at your shoulder as you work,", Marcelle Freiman , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
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