The sea is spread and cleaved and furled by Ahren Warner Rachel Bower and deeply in love with

and deeply in love with this flawed world

The complexities of life are jolted awake throughout this fearlessly inventive debut

at once personal and philosophical

“I work all day and lift barbells at night

wrecked boats

The sea is spread and cleaved and furled by Ahren Warner Rachel Bower and deeply in love withThe sea is spread and cleaved and furled is an interdisciplinary book and film work by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. It is a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice over and compendium of notes to the self. Written and filmed across thirteen countries, from the Greek Islands to South East Asia to the Black Sea, the Balkans and the Baltic, it is at once a travelogue and an exploration of stagnating memory, of mental fracturing and its