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ARTIST
TITLE
Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
FORMAT
LP

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CSR 358LP CSR 358LP
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RELEASE DATE
4/3/2026

Written in 1971 and read here by the author himself, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only known work of narrative fiction. Providing a prelude to some of the imagery Derek Jarman would use later in his career, particularly the alchemical dreamscapes in the film Blue, it is a surreal, hallucinatory fairytale, signposted with elements of modernity, that has much of the mythic and archetypal about it. With tantalizing autobiographical details and a panoply of chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols, this richly poetic story details a journey with no destination or purpose across a mythical America, undertaken by the young blind King Amethyst and his valet John. Previously only ever released on cassette (2022, Prototype Publishing, Ltd 80), this vinyl edition features facsimile images of the story's handwritten drafts from Jarman's archive and photos by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman's throughout the period of the story's writing. Licensed from House Sparrow Press/Prototype Publishing, and The Estate of Derek Jarman. Limited 500 copies on heavyweight 180gm black vinyl in gloss sleeve.