JARMAN, Derek
At Your Own Risk

In At Your Own Risk, first publihed in 1992, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia.

With an introduction by Straight Jacket author Matthew Todd.

Published by Vintage, 2019
Artists' Writings / Politics / Queer Culture