JACK M. BOOTH

“…and he told me the names of the stars and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world, and that the other twinkling stars were suns that had worlds rolling around them; and when I came home he shewed me how they rolled round… for from my early readings of fairy tales and genii, etc. etc. -my mind had been habituated to the vast.”

From a letter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

”When in mid-May the sickening east wind

Shifts sudden to the south, the small warm rain

Melts out the frozen incense from all flowers,

And fills the air with so much pleasant health

That even the dying man forgets his shroud.”

To J Reynolds, 1818, from the letters of John Keats (1795-1821)

“I do not write for the public. You are my public.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

This website is a digital archive for the poetry, stories, essays, art work and photographs of EINZELNE and Jack M. Booth.

Booth is an Irish-Australian contemplative, writer, poet, painter, composer, songwriter, and musician.

Raised in Perth, Western Australia, he holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool, focusing on Nietzsche and Klee, and is a PhD candidate in Art History at Humboldt Universität Berlin. After living in Berlin, Germany from 2017 to 2024, Booth moved away from the city to the forests of Western Massachusetts in 2025 to lead a reclusive life in nature and focus on family, contemplation and artistic work.

Booth was previously active as the principal songwriter in a musical duo with Eleni Poulou (The Fall, Mark E. Smith) and played viola in The Midnight Audience. His work, influenced by a spirit of isolationism from the social beast and it's ills, draws on Buddhist teachings, German and English Romanticism, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Stirner, Weil, and Guénon.

Musically he engages with the continuation of Irish folk traditions and is inspired by Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, John Fahey, Jackson C Frank, Roy Harper, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs and the British Folk Revival.

With 13 albums in three years, Booth’s Home Recordings albums and studio album EINZELNE stand for the expression born of solitude, offering a stark relief to spectacle culture, aesthetic capitalism, and the pop music industrial complex.

-Ian Fairweather

Editor

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