Timothy Mathews, 2026
NEW CHRONICLES OF ART AND HOPE. WRITING IN TIMES OF DEMOGOGUERY
Memoir, notes from…, letters to…, fiction and fictions, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, make-believe and reality TV, autofiction, prose and verse, the free and the metered, rhyme, reason, and rhythms, breath, moments and quotations, chronicles, stories of our time and whose time, witness, ways of seeing far longer imposed than exposed, the boundaries of art, why art at all?
New Chronicles for Art and Hope is a collection of poetic essays, free verse, and prose poetry. The rhythm of their passing gives tender antidotes in the mind to the whirlwind of victims and tyrants, the brutality of administered fear, signalling something of the swooping charisma of demagogues, and the vulnerability it feeds.
‘These are the artefacts of a listener, of a mind grown into its own maturity refusing to submit to the world it inflects, a voice that cannot be separated from its own resonance, and a plea, or would it be merely a signal, that writing can still exist, can still issue a call for itself, can gently manifest its own fragile existence in a time of great horrors and unassayable trauma.’
–> Ansgar Allen
‘In an era of fractured identity and political noise, Timothy Mathews delivers a healing without: a stunning ekphrastic collage that dissolves the boundary between the gazer and the gazed. Traversing museum galleries and the jagged realities of current affairs, these chronicles invite us into the unbound. Through a tapestry of memoir, prose, and marginalia, the text unfolds the constructedness of the human subject, urging us past the self to find a community of shared horizons. Here, the demarcations that divide us evaporate into a solidarity forged in loss. This is a radical literature of solace, transforming our modern melancholic state into a shared, selfless freedom.’
–> Ágnes Lehóczky
Timothy Mathews is a writer who asks, what can a writer do? New Chronicles of Art and Hope: Writing in Times of Demagoguery is a development of There and Not Here: Chronicles of Art and Loss (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2022). Author of Alberto Giacometti: the Art of Relation (Bloomsbury, 2014), his most recent work with translation is Guillaume Apollinaire, Seated Woman (Shearsman Books, 2023); and Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again, co-edited with Patrick ffrench (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). With Sarah Kay, his most recent
co-edited book of intermedial criticism is The Modernist Bestiary: Translating Animals
and the Arts through Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Dufy and Graham Sutherland (UCL Press,2020).
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New Chronicles for Art and Hope is a collection of poetic essays, free verse, and prose poetry. The rhythm of their passing gives tender antidotes in the mind to the whirlwind of victims and tyrants, the brutality of administered fear, signalling something of the swooping charisma of demagogues, and the vulnerability it feeds.
‘These are the artefacts of a listener, of a mind grown into its own maturity refusing to submit to the world it inflects, a voice that cannot be separated from its own resonance, and a plea, or would it be merely a signal, that writing can still exist, can still issue a call for itself, can gently manifest its own fragile existence in a time of great horrors and unassayable trauma.’
–> Ansgar Allen
‘In an era of fractured identity and political noise, Timothy Mathews delivers a healing without: a stunning ekphrastic collage that dissolves the boundary between the gazer and the gazed. Traversing museum galleries and the jagged realities of current affairs, these chronicles invite us into the unbound. Through a tapestry of memoir, prose, and marginalia, the text unfolds the constructedness of the human subject, urging us past the self to find a community of shared horizons. Here, the demarcations that divide us evaporate into a solidarity forged in loss. This is a radical literature of solace, transforming our modern melancholic state into a shared, selfless freedom.’
–> Ágnes Lehóczky
Timothy Mathews is a writer who asks, what can a writer do? New Chronicles of Art and Hope: Writing in Times of Demagoguery is a development of There and Not Here: Chronicles of Art and Loss (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2022). Author of Alberto Giacometti: the Art of Relation (Bloomsbury, 2014), his most recent work with translation is Guillaume Apollinaire, Seated Woman (Shearsman Books, 2023); and Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again, co-edited with Patrick ffrench (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). With Sarah Kay, his most recent
co-edited book of intermedial criticism is The Modernist Bestiary: Translating Animals
and the Arts through Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Dufy and Graham Sutherland (UCL Press,2020).
Next Book ->
184 pages
120 mm x 190 mm
80 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-9194826-1-3
£18.00
Order with the second edition of Timothy Mathews’s THERE AND NOT HERE. CHRONICLES OF ART AND LOSS (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2022)
for the special price of £30.00 for the two books
120 mm x 190 mm
80 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-9194826-1-3
£18.00
Order with the second edition of Timothy Mathews’s THERE AND NOT HERE. CHRONICLES OF ART AND LOSS (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2022)
for the special price of £30.00 for the two books