{"title":"Derek Jarman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDerek Jarman\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique blend of writing that intertwines art, nature, and personal reflection. His works move seamlessly between the vivid imagery of \u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e, to the intimate and contemplative exploration of life’s natural beauty in \u003cem\u003eDerek Jarman's Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, inviting readers into a world where creativity and environment merge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a voice that resonates across \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHome \u0026amp; Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, Jarman’s books celebrate the transformative power of nature and art. Readers can expect meditative, poetic prose that honours the senses and the complexities of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"modern-nature-by-derek-jarman-9781784873875","title":"Modern Nature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very special book - a divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1986, Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFacing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While some perished beneath wind and sea-spray, others flourished, creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life - his childhood, his time as a young gay man in the 1960s, his renowned career as an artist, writer and film-maker. It is at once a lament for a lost generation, an unabashed celebration of gay sexuality, and a devotion to all that is living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' Hans Ulrich Obrist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition features an introduction from Olivia Laing, the author of \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46193671635180,"sku":"9781784873875","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784873875.jpg?v=1739845543"},{"product_id":"pharmacopoeia-by-derek-jarman-9781784877330","title":"Pharmacopoeia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful, full-colour compendium of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening, and life in Dungeness - with a Foreword by Tilda Swinton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConceived 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePharmacopoeia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Derek made of this wee house, his wooden tent pitched in the wilderness, an artwork - and out of its shingle skirts, an ingenious garden - now internationally recognised. But, first and foremost, the cottage was always a living thing, a practical toolbox for his work.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Tilda Swinton, from her Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46271970672876,"sku":"9781784877330","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784877330.jpg?v=1742272862"},{"product_id":"derek-jarmans-garden-by-derek-jarman-9780500016565","title":"Derek Jarman's Garden","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParadise haunts gardens\u003c\/em\u003e, writes Derek Jarman, \u003cem\u003eand it haunts mine.\u003c\/em\u003e Jarman's public image is that of a film-maker of genius, whose work, dwelling on themes of sexuality and violence, became a byword for controversy. But the private man was the creator of his own garden-paradise in an environment that many might think was more of a hell than a heaven - in the flat, bleak, often desolate expanse of shingle that faces the Dungeness nuclear power station.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJarman, a passionate gardener from childhood, combined his painter's eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which combined the flints, shells and driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones, old tools and found objects; the area's indigenous plants; and shrubs and flowers introduced by Jarman himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is Derek Jarman's own record of how this garden evolved, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 to the last year of his life. More than 150 photographs taken since 1991 by his friend and photographer Howard Sooley capture the garden at all its different stages and at every season of the year. Photographs from all angles reveal the garden's complex geometrical plan, its magical stone circles and its beautiful and bizarre sculptures. We also catch glimpses of Jarman's life in Dungeness: walking, weeding, watering, or just enjoying life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDerek Jarman's Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is the last book Jarman ever wrote. Like the garden itself, it remains as a fitting memorial to a brilliant and greatly loved artist who, against all odds, made a breathtakingly beautiful garden in the most inhospitable of places. It will appeal to all those who are themselves practising gardeners, as well as the legions of admirers of this extraordinary man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46832752296172,"sku":"9780500016565","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28072303482365.jpg?v=1758406889"},{"product_id":"blue-by-derek-jarman-9781644230886","title":"Blue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDerek Jarman's \u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.\" — Derek Jarman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, \u003cem\u003eBlue\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring and powerful work of art. The film—and this highly-anticipated book's text—serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten poetically and surrealistically, Jarman's text moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life—getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk—escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue—a colour, a feeling, a funk. 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