Sean Bonney
Sean Bonney is a radical poet and writer. He has performed his work at
protests, in occupations, in seminar rooms, on picket lines, in the back
rooms of pubs and at international poetry festivals. His most recent books
include “Ghosts” (Materials, 2017) and “Letters Against the Firmament”
(Enitharmon, 2015). A new collection, “Our Death”, is due to be published
by Commune Editions in 2019. He lived in London for twenty years, and is
currently based in Berlin.
In Hell | Germany/UK 2017 | Video | 9 min
In Hell is a series of spoken-word performances to camera filmed in Sean Bonney’s apartment in Kreuzberg, Berlin by Bonney himself. About the series Bonney says, “The poems are from a sequence titled “Our Death”, which is loosely based on the impressions of a displaced British person watching Brexit from afar, and being troubled by entirely rational apocalyptic visions.”