Gareth Sion Jenkins

Recipes for the Disaster

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gareth Jenkins's work reads like rituals or incantations, corrupted by the manufactured nature of our modern world while constantly seeking to resist that corruption. Historicity, environmental awareness, culture and its wars: these themes and their constant transmutation dominate and destabilise the voices in his poems. In between, the unreliability of language, an overarching self-awareness of privilege and the uncertainty of human relations make the book both alien and deeply personal. His is a project intent on an honest, heartfelt grandeur of connection, all the while haunted by the fear that such human connection is already doomed to a shallow etching of what it might be. Recipes for the Disaster is at once bleak, mystical and strangely life-affirming; an exploration of mysteries, an excavation of hidden failures, an exhortation to be better than we have been. Michael Aiken

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apothecary Archive
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 127g
• ISBN-13: 9780648807940
• ISBN-10: 0648807940
• Artikelnr.: 60061283

Autorenporträt

For the last 20 years Gareth has been running poetry workshops in schools, youth centres, universities, libraries and prisons. His masters in psychology was spent measuring the brain's frontal positive slow wave. His doctorate explored the intersection of schizophrenia and creative expression through the writing and artmaking of Anthony Mannix. He is the editor of The Toy of the Spirit, the first book-length publication of Anthony's collected writings. Gareth's poetry and theoretical work has been widely published. His poetry-film collaborations regularly screen at festivals around the world. He makes and exhibits text-based art at Square One Studios. Gareth's first poetry collection, Recipes for the Disaster, won the 2019 Anne Elder Award.