The First One's Free.
To celebrate (over) a decade since my first book, I’m offering it for free.
EX MACHINA is a choose-your-own-adventure-style poetry-novel hybrid about how machines have changed what it means to be human.
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The National Gallery
My fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book’s heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking fewer prisoners. A startling diversity of styles and subjects feed into this maelstrom, and its dark currents will draw you in to drown.
“This is a brilliant and profound book, often hilarious and moving, alive and alert to our life, our language, our darkness, and our love”
“A wondrous collection of the narcotic, gorgeous, and hilarious … Ball’s phrases often fold in on themselves suddenly to produce startling mouthfuls of dream and delight … the reader doesn’t even notice the trapdoor that’s opened beneath their giddy feet.”
“Jonathan Ball deploys [a] distinctive blend of sinister insight and munificent imagination, illuminating horror and dark humour, artful precision and formal play.”