VINTAGE CLASSICS : SMILING IN SLOW MOTION PB – DEREK JARMAN-NEIL BARTLETT

" The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman s last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest. Written from Jarman s Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew s Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT"