No Document

Author(s): Anwen Crawford

Critical Thinking | Biography

No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures. From the turmoil of grief and the solace of memory, her perspective embraces histories of protest and revolution, art-making and cinema, border policing, and especially our relationships with animals. No Document shows how love and resistance echo through time. No Document is an urgent, groundbreaking work of non-fiction that reimagines the boundaries that divide us – as people, nations and species – and asks how we can create forms of solidarity that endure.


Anwen Crawford is best known for her writing as a critic, but here she draws on her background as a zine-maker and visual artist, and her training in poetry, to develop a new way of writing about the past, using a symphonic method of composition and collage.


Product Information

Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022

General Fields

  • : 9781925818611
  • : Giramondo Publishing Company
  • : Giramondo Publishing Co
  • : October 2020
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anwen Crawford
  • : Paperback
  • : 2104
  • : 160
  • : BM