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Biographical note
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.Gossipy, candid, funny, and, as Jarman’s illness takes hold, powerfully moving
Choice Magazine
Present on every page is the creative sparkle and compellingly generous spirit of a man who was in every way an uncompromising individual
The Times
In these diaries... the artist and film director emerges as a down-to-earth visionary... this perceptive and enjoyable work is something of a miracle
Independent
For all his anger, Jarman never seems brutalised. He retains his humanity and his good humour. His is a wonderfully garrulous, mercurial, polymathic daemon
Literary Review
Jarman [is] the sort of troublemaking visionary who one day may be compared with Blake
- John Gill, Time Out