Jamieson Webster: On Breathing contemporary art Mordecai’s poetry “represents the people

Mordecai’s poetry “represents the people

This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge

and is still inhabiting

like Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp

Salima Naji

Jamieson Webster: On Breathing contemporary art Mordecai’s poetry “represents the peoplePeninsula Press, 2025, softcover, 256 pages, 12. 9 x 19. 8 cm A beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe. A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And although this mostly happens unconsciously, in a society plagued by anxiety, climate change, environmental racism, and