{"title":"Sion Parkinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSion Parkinson\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of nature and art, inviting readers to engage deeply with the subtle beauty found in overlooked subjects. Their work blends thoughtful observation with creative insight, often illuminating the unexpected charm of natural forms like fungi and plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers drawn to \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Parkinson’s books offer a meditative journey into the rhythms of the natural world, presented with a poetic sensibility and keen attention to detail that enriches everyday experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stinkhorn-by-sion-parkinson-9781915609274","title":"Stinkhorn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odours resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above the ground, where it lures insects towards its slimy, fetid cap. In \u003cem\u003eStinkhorn\u003c\/em\u003e, artist, musician, and writer Sion Parkinson asks: What can the pervasive stench of this mushroom and the droning noise of the flies compelled towards it reveal about how sounds and smells are combined in the imagination?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of \"smelling sound.\" Alongside images and insights from the author's search for stinkhorn fungi in nature, the book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the \"nasal imaginary\" in how we make sense of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this treatise on malodours and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage's silent fungal forays, Brian Eno's compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the \"eggy\" odour of space, and the author's own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes 16-page insert of a facsimile of the Neo-Latin-English translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Description of the Phallus\u003c\/em\u003e by Hadrianus Junius, translated by Caroline Spearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537027875052,"sku":"9781915609274","price":75.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81585f4d47c5451b55738850afe08039.jpg?v=1776902896"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sion-parkinson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}