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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 *
