A very special book - a divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness.
Derek Jarman (Author)
Derek Jarman was born in London in 1942. His career spanned decades
and genres, from painter, theatre designer, director, film maker,
to poet, writer, campaigner and gardener. His features include
Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of
England (1987), Edward II (1991) and Blue (1993). His paintings -
for which he was a Turner Prize nominee in 1986 - continue to be
exhibited worldwide, and his garden in Dungeness remains a site of
pilgrimage to fans and newcomers alike.
Olivia Laing (Introducer)
Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic.
They're the author of eight books, including The Lonely City,
Everybody and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden
Against Time. Laing's first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize and in 2018 they were awarded the Windham-Campbell
Prize for non-fiction. They are an Honorary Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Arts and their books have been translated into
twenty-one languages.
The most beautiful & furious book of all time
*Olivia Laing*
An essential – urgent – book for the 21st Century
*Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine
Gallery*
A marvellous, moving book
*Sunday Telegraph*
Jarman gave his garden a certain narrative; perhaps he treated it a
bit like a film or theatre set. His films were visionary,
eccentric, romantic and rebellious, all of which could also be said
about his garden
*Guardian*
It's hard not to warm to the man who, in the face of all the
personal and professional hardships described in this book, can
still regard himself as 'the most fortunate film-maker of my
generation
*Guardian*
An inspiring diary of a life well lived
*BBC Gardeners’ World*
Joy and life and more life and more joy and street corners and
making a garden out of stones and making films and love
*Tilda Swinton*
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