Exploring the complexities of identity and consumerism, this novella features 'you' as the central character navigating a blend of autofiction, docufiction, and fiction. Through a combination of text and imagery, it delves into themes such as the purchase of enjoyment and the delicate nature of self-conception as a cultural artifact. Ahren Warner's work invites readers to reflect on their own experiences and the societal influences that shape them.
Ahren Warner's fourth collection is one-part phantasmagoria, one-part brutal document, with equal measures of irony and sincerity. It is a book compulsively drawn to a world in which identity and performance have become indistinguishable, where violence and inadequacy are so often the corollaries of love.
An interdisciplinary book and film-work by poet and visual artist Ahren a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice-over and compendium of notes-to-the-self about the veneer of dialogue, narcissism and pleasure, about contemporary economies of capital, human movement and desire. 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 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.
Hello. Your promise has been extracted is the third collection from Britain's poetry wunderkind.
Warner's debut, Confer, was both a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second collection is darker and more capricious.