To celebrate the reissue of Derek Jarman’s only poetry collection, A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, we are hosting two launch events in London, with some very special guests, and a rare screening of the film Glitterbug. 

On Friday 15 November, we’ll be launching the book at Burley Fisher Books. Joining publisher Jess Chandler and editor Gareth Evans to talk about Jarman’s poetry, life, legacy and ever-growing influence will be So Mayer, who was instrumental in bringing the reissue to life and wrote a foreword to the book, and poet and sexual health therapist Peter Scalpello, who will also be reading from the collection, and their own work.

On Saturday 30 November, we will be joined by poet and writer CAConrad and Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, to introduce a screening of Glitterbug, a stunning collage of ecstatic Super-8 fragments assembled by friends from Jarman’s prolific filming of everyday events and his experimental investigations of the format. Set to a mesmerizing score by Brian Eno, Glitterbug forms a hopeful counterpoint to Jarman’s remarkable final film Blue and commemorates both his exemplary life as a gay icon and his unique artistic vision.