Night Journey - Nick Jones

Poetry and aquatints are combined in this study of our interaction with roads and road networks.

An inventive interplay between poetry and aquatints brings both to life in this limited edition pamphlet from surgeon and poet, Nick Jones. Our voracious appetite for travel has resulted in an ever-expanding lattice of tarmac across the earth's surface. Shrouded in darkness this artificial environment envelops the solitary night driver. Its impersonal nature is the antithesis of the self yet, paradoxically, it is here that aspects of the self begin to unfold.

Separation

Past processions of pylons

shadows long since faded

fields whose ploughs rest

heads dream in their beds

desolate petrol stations

candescent cash machines

watchmen dropping of

foxes sift through bins

the past departed
Publisher: Cinnamon Press