Description
This is a funny, playful, audacious yet serious artist’s book which gathers together all the material generated by Charlotte Cooper‘s Homosexual Death Drive Poundbury project.
The book is for anyone who wants a creative, alternative queer and Othered take on the soft and hard power of monarchy. It exposes the massive gap between royal optics and what they actually do.
In Poundbury: A Queer Tour of Monarchy, Charlotte adopts the role of The Groom of the Stool, or royal arse-wiper. Trip through Poundbury’s history, ideology, use of pseudo-tradition, greenwash and social control. Charlotte’ll show you some of Poundbury’s people and reveal how they resist royal power-tripping. Charlotte argues that Poundbury is currently a death zone that could be redeemed as a postmodern theme park for queers and Others.
In a bizarre twist, Charlotte was invited to meet Camilla at Buckingham Palace – true! Read all about it!
Poundbury includes original research, personal reflection, drawings, poetry, experimental writing and AI-generated texts. It is shaped by queer theory, feminism, neurodivergence and the social model of disability, working class identity, decolonisation, environmental activism and anarchism. Its guiding principles are: beauty, intelligence, humour, integrity, the liberation of all beings.
NULLA MONARCHIA INFANTEM!
224 pages, black and white illustrations
Publisher 33editions
ISBN: 978-0-9935320-6-1
