At Your Own Risk

With an introduction by Matthew Todd in at your own risk Derek Jarman weaves poetry prose photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/aids. This is barman at his passionate polemic best written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the aids crisis. Defiant and furious he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia. Reissued here 25 years after jarman’s death at your own risk