Enemies Within: Derek Jarman’s Kicking the Pricks and The Last of England

Republished for the first time in nearly thirty years, Derek Jarman's book Kicking the Pricks, including the director's notes and diaries from the making of his seminal film The Last of England, offers a portal into a rotting UK that feels all too familiar The Last of England (Derek Jarman, 1987). All images courtesy: British Film Institute In Kicking The Pricks Derek Jarman poses the question: what use is a film, book or artwork that presents a nostalgic future warning for an unloved and thwarted isle? A companion piece to Jarman’s most overtly political film, The Last Of England, the book is

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