Take a six-mile walk across London with critically acclaimed poet Jay
Bernard, exploring some of the secrets of the statues and monuments of
the city they love
Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor
Henry Tulse, in this book, the author of the critically acclaimed poetry
collection Surge goes for a six-mile walk across London--"this city I
love"--to think about the meaning of complicity. We live in the legacy
of colonialism. It permeates the very fabric of the social structures in
which we exist. It visibly haunts the streets of London, anchored by
statues and monuments that commemorate a violent imperial past. What
does it mean, then, to love this city that was once the heart of an
empire? Punctuated by works in Britain's national collection of art,
Complicity is an insightful meditation on how art can help us reckon
with a dark history and an uncertain future.