Georgie Jesson - 'soft spot for a junkie'

soft spot for a junkie 
Georgie Jesson
#TG0027

Releases: 21st November 2025
*This is a pre-order item*

100% Recycled Unbleached Paper
Printed in UK
Pubisher: Toothgrinder Press 2025

Design & Art Direction: William Francis Green
Editor: Edward Julian Green
Paintings: Maro Michalakakos
Photography: Thanos Kartsoglou
Foreward: Grian Chatten

Launch:
21/11/2025
Lanzarote Works
Unit 22, 230 Dalston Lane
London, E8 1LA
7pm - Late

Georgie Jesson was born in London to a Bosnian mum and British father. One, a communist turned neurotic capitalist, the other a private school boy cast-off turned heroin addict. Georgie fell in love with poetry through music and lyric writing at an early age. She has since performed her work to music, written extensively for various music magazines as a journalist and culture writer, and written biographies and forewords for acclaimed artists including Baxter Dury and photographer Ewen Spencer.

Her debut collection traverses grief and love in equal measure, reflecting on family memories with a sharp honesty and a blurred edge. The book charts the changing ways the passing of time can affect us: “we collect figurines to make a monument of memory / to help ignore the wastage of life”.

The collection features illustrations by Greek artist Maro Michalakakos, whose work has been displayed internationally in several collection, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate, FNAC - Paris, Istanbul Modern and many private collections.