Amnesia Findings

Now I knit myself back into a human. It’s hard work relearning the steps—slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex—I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson’s collection traces the skeins of lost histories and the spaces of dropped stitches. Exquisite and whimsical, these poems bear witness to the broken and healed. Gentle but robust, these are poems of personal resilience, framed by explorations of Jewish culture and family and fuelled by a boundless and exhilarating imaginativeness.

Anna Jacobson is a Brisbane poet and artist. In 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. She holds a Master of Philosophy in poetry from Queensland University of Technology, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative and Professional Writing) and a Bachelor of Photography with Honours from Griffith University. Her poetry has been published in literary journals, including Cordite, Rabbit, Meanjin, ABR’s States of Poetry Queensland and Verity La, and her chapbook, The Last Postman (Vagabond Press, 2018), is part of deciBels series 3. Amnesia Findings is Anna’s first full-length poetry collection.