Sat October 14th, 5.30pm 15 St Margarets Street, Norwich, NR24TU
Free to attend, booking essential Copies of the book will be available to purchase
As part of her book launch local writer Rose Higham-Stainton will be reading an excerpt from her debut book entitled ‘Limn the Distance’ published by JOAN Publishing. The reading will be followed by drinks with the writer.
Limn the Distance imagines decentralisation through the poetics of Bernadette Mayer and the concentric communities of one mountain. From major cities to art worlds, godheads to bodies and the spaces they inhabit, it asks what happens when we move away from the assumed nuclei of these knowledge and value systems. Orbiting around one mountain in upstate New York, Limn the Distance speaks of and through the communities that have resided there—from the radical sectarian shakers, and efforts towards communitarian living and small-scale farming that have happened in their wake, as well as the life and legacy of Bernadette Mayer who lived nearby. Through personal narrative and lyrical essay, the book draws on communitarian and artistic traditions of decentralised practice and resists the easy binarisms of solitude and sociality, ruralism and urbanism.
