Bill Direen - 100 Years of Darkness | New Zealand Literature | Gothic Novel | Perfect for Book Clubs & Dark Fiction Fans

Bill Direen is a legend of the New Zealand underground. He has given us poetry, novels and a catalog of important and challenging underground music.

His new book, 100 Years of Darkness, is a homage to a century of films and film music and features poems about or inspired by film.

The front cover boxes represent film aspect ratios (1.17:1 up to 2.35:1) as used worldwide between 1888 and the present. The films are drawn from many countries, such as Japan, U.S.A., France, Germany, Russia/Ukraine, Vietnam, Sweden, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Lebanon.

Since some of the films may not have been commercially distributed in all countries, the chosen films are carefully listed in a detailed index of sources at the close, which corresponds to the order of the poems as listed in the contents. This makes it easy for film and music lovers to find the films' directors and years of first appearance, and eventually see them for themselves.

100 Years of Darkness is very limited in an edition of 200, beautifully printed with textured jackets in the spirit of vintage Black Sparrow Press books.