Description
The sea is spread and cleaved and furled is an interdisciplinary book and film-work by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. It is a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice-over and compendium of notes-to-the-self.
Written and filmed across thirteen countries, from the Greek Islands to South East Asia to the Black Sea, the Balkans and the Baltic, it is at once a travelogue and an exploration of stagnating memory, of mental fracturing and its corollary: the exuberant performance of the self.
It is both a love poem, an intermedia obsession with *cats*, and the personal and philosophical exploration of alienation, moving from Andrew Marvell to Cardi B, from Foucault and Back to the Future to the inane and repetitive close reading of Drake.
The sea is spread and cleaved and furled is a poem and a film about the veneer of dialogue, narcissism and pleasure, about contemporary economies of capital, human movement and desire, and the resistance of the sensible or affective world to language itself.
About the Author
Ahren Warner is a poet, artist and critic. Previous books include Confer (2011), Pretty (2013) and Hello. Your promise has been extracted (2017), a collection of poetry, lyric prose and photographs. His work has received awards including an Arts Foundation Fellowship, Eric Gregory Award and several Poetry Book Society Recommendations, whilst he has either exhibited or screened film-works or photography at venues including the Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City), EU National Institute of Cultures (Athens) and Great North Museum (Newcastle). In addition to his poetry, he co-edited The Contemporary Poetry Archive (EUP, 2019) and has published a variety of critical essays. He was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2013-2019, and is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Creative Arts, Loughborough University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781916052093
Author Ahren Warner
Format Paperback
Imprint Prototype Publishing Ltd.
Publisher Prototype Publishing Ltd.
