The Inclination Compass
''The Inclination Compass is a surpassing text, a gargantuan arrival. Nodal, algorithmic, ergodic – is there anything else like it in Australian literature?' – Dan Disney
'An experimental tour de force. With its complex shifting layers and consistent verbal flair The Inclination Compass demonstrates what a fully alive, truly innovative multi-media 21st Century epic poem might look like.' – Peter Boyle
'A visionary fever dream, a non-linear medley of incantations – The Inclination Compass is the surreal and immersive second collection from Anne Elder Award winning Gareth Sion Jenkins.' – Rae White
'As the remarkable culmination of an artlife project shaped by poetry, installation, performance, film and collage, which draws upon analytical psychology, fiction, philosophy and science, The Inclination Compass, is driven by a torrential creative ambition to discover new means of mapping phenomena, experience and the mind.' – Gavin Parkinson
T'he Inclination Compass is a highly original, ambitious, defamiliarising book – a richly layered, multi-sensory, multi-locational experience.' – Hazel Smith
Gareth Jenkin's first poetry book, Recipes for the Disaster, won the 2019 Anne Elder award. His poetry short-films have screened at festivals around the world and he exhibits text-based art and interactive multimedia installations.
Since 2005 Gareth has been building The Atomic Book — an online digital archive of the work of Australia’s greatest outlier artist, Anthony Mannix. In 2019 he selected and edited The Toy of the Spirit, the collected writings of Anthony Mannix.
In 2020 Gareth founded the archive and small press Apothecary Archive. In 2021 he took over the running of one of Australia’s most enduring poetry publishers, Five Islands Press.
