David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


29 November 2017

2017 West Space Fundraiser


Nick Austin, Glenn Barkley, Jack Brown, Lauren Burrow, Trevelyan Clay, Georgina Cue, Vittoria di Steffano, Hana Earles, Clementine Edwards, Emily Floyd, Briony Galligan, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Ry Haskings, Greatest Hits, Heidi Holmes, Raafat Ishak, Lucina Lane, Merryn Lloyd, Alex Martinis Roe, Kym Maxwell, Sanné Mestrom, John Nixon, Ruth O'Leary, Taree Mackenzie, Nicholas Mangan, Nik Pantazopoulos, Nell Pearson, Oscar Perry, Joshua Petherick, Jason Phu, Patrick Pound, Lisa Radford & Masato Takasaka, Ander Rennick, Kiron Robinson, Christopher Sciuto, David Sequeira, Kieren Seymour, Nicholas Smith, Peter Tyndall, Grace Wood and Simon Zoric. 

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