A tenterhooks journey from dark to light, down a crooked path of love and hate, from the ugly edges of the wounding city to the luminous depths of the healing forest, for the beauty, for the soul, for the dance…

Johny Brown’s latest book takes some beating.

The Band Of Holy Joy frontman is at his poetic apex in CORPSE FLOWER, dipping into long-form prose as he inimitably relates a tale that needs to be told right now.

But don’t just take our word for it...

"Transcendent art that speaks more about our times than just about anything I've read recently. Human and devastating, CORPSE FLOWER is sheer genius" – Irvine Welsh

"A powerful piece of modern magic realism, though it truly defies categorisation. It's kind of a novel, kind of not... it's a diary and a dream, and a noteworthy debut" – 4/5 Chris Roberts, Record Collector

"A redeeming deep breath as the post pandemic world get crazier by the day. CORPSE FLOWER finds transcendence in words, music, dance and the power of nature" – Den Browne, Louder Than War

“A true celebration, written with unflinching sincerity as well as a reckless gait, of the persistence that keeps us hanging on despite the hard hits” – Richard Cabut, author of Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances and Punk Is Dead

"With Brown’s meditation on his own mortality at the book’s incantatory, intoxicating heart, the result flits between poetry and prose as much as between life and death, part Proustian memoir, part Blakean fever dream" – Neil Cooper, The Noise of Art

“Johny Brown spills his poet’s blood into this single-sitting of treasured breath. Rare, relentless, his indefatigability is eternally inspiring” – Kirsty Allison, author of Psychomachia

"A consistently inventive, absorbing and ultimately hypnotic read, which packs more ideas into its relatively short volume than books many times its length" – John Clarkson, Penny Black Music

“This book burns by igniting how the unguessed needs of the many take just one to enlighten” – David Erdos, International Times