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Pharmacopoeia : A Dungeness Notebook
Paperback Edition: 1
A beautiful, full-colour compendium of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and life in Dungeness - with a Foreword by Tilda Swinton
In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fisherman's hut on the desert sands of Dungeness. It was to be a home and refuge for Jarman throughout his HIV diagnosis, and it would provide the stage for one of his most enduring, if transitory projects - his garden. Conceived of as a 'pharmacopoeia' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of fascination and wonder.
Pharmacopoeia brings together the best of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage. Told through journal entries, poems and fragments of prose, it paints a portrait of Jarman's personal and artistic reliance on the space Dungeness offered him, and shows the cycle of the years spent there in one moving collage.
Pages : 160
Publisher : Vintage Books
Publication date : 2022-03-16
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Gardening