Ahren warner biography of william
I will pay to make it bigger is a novella, by poet and artist Ahren Warner, in which 'you' are the main character....
The first solo show of Ahren Warner comprising two bodies of work, an installed multi-channel film and a series of photographs and text-works.
Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner grew up in Lincolnshire before moving to London, then Paris. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Confer (Bloodaxe, 2011), which was both a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection (2011) and Pretty (Bloodaxe, 2013), also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
His third collection, Hello. Your Promise Has Been Extracted was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Warner is poetry editor of Poetry London.
Many of the poems included in this Archive recording situate Warner as a modern day flâneur and draw particularly on the landscapes of London and Paris.
The speaker reflects on his surroundings, as in the humourous lines ‘On Avenue de l’Operao Rue des Petits Champs, I find myself so often fixated by a girl’s derriére’, and, through the stimulus of the city, comes to reflect on himself too; ‘l’etranger is not this man in the window just off the Euston Road but rather a shifting in thi