P-P Hartnett
Peter Paul Hartnett (born 1958), writing as PP Hartnett, is a London Irish writer, spoken word performer, and photographer currently based at the edge of a forest near coastal Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. His fiction focuses upon trauma and its consequences. His most notable works include Call Me, I Want to Fuck You, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide and Sixteen.
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P-P Hartnett
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- Name
- Peter Paul Hartnett
- Birthplace
- London, UK
- Occupation
- Writer, photographer, musician
- Born
- 1958 · London.
- Nationality
- Ireland
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Peter Paul Hartnett (born 1958), writing as PP Hartnett, is a London Irish writer, spoken word performer, and photographer currently based at the edge of a forest near coastal Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. His fiction focuses upon trauma and its consequences. His most notable works include Call Me, I Want to Fuck You, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide and Sixteen.
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P-P Hartnett (born 1958) is a novelist, photographer and writer, of Irish nationality. The novelist was born in London.
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Biography
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PP Hartnett's recent download titles, published by Autopsy, include > and Full Screen, as well as the collected works series SEX: MALE that includes Call Me, I Want to Fuck You, Mmm Yeah, Sixteen, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, POZMEUP, You.. And Needs Discussion. PP Hartnett has produced two spoken word albums of his fiction, Ferris Wheel Kiss and The Very Idea. Hartnett also fronts a band named > (formerly known as Child R*pe Photos) and has released an album entitled Tripod, Camera, Self-Timer (Autopsy), which focuses on long-term sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. PP Hartnett was educated by the Benedictine monks of St Benedict's School, Ealing, West London.
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• Name — Peter Paul Hartnett • Pen Name — PP Hartnett (formerly stylised P-P Hartnett until 2005) • Birthplace — London, UK • Occupation — Writer, photographer, musician • Period — 1976–present • Genre — Fiction, fashion, lifestyle, novel, short story, poetry, transgressive • Notable Works — >, Call Me Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Sixteen, I Want to Fuck You • Website — hartnett.uk.com
Poetry
Poetry
PP Hartnett has published a number of signed limited edition hardback works via Autopsy, such as date of birth, time of death (January 2017), three men, in tears (July, 2017), gentle and tender, act of confession (May, 2018), with works i shouldn't, must stop (January 2019).
Spoken word
Spoken word
2018 releases include schoolboysoul and none of god's business, a two-track download spoken word double A-side (January 2018), and gentle and tender, act of confession, a five-track download spoken word EP (March, 2018).
Banned works
Banned works
Dennis Nilsen has provided illustrations for much of Hartnett's work, such as within SEX: MALE and Full Screen. The spoken word album accompanying his roman a clef > was banned by Tunecore for its content – a fictional television documentary detailing four accounts of child abuse by Catholic priests within a fictional Catholic school in West London. Apple's iBooks Store rejected Full Screen as containing prohibited explicit or objectionable content. Hartnett said his intent was not to shock but to "shine a light into areas that are usually kept dark".
Photography
Peter Paul Hartnett initially made his name as a photographer on the underground gay club scene, developing and printing his own work. Hartnett took his first nightclub photograph of punk icon Soo Catwoman at Bang Disco, London, in October 1976. He worked at London hotspots such as Leigh Bowery's Taboo, publishing his photography in publications such as i-D, Dazed & Confused, V-Man, Vision, XLR8R, Fused, The Observer Magazine, The Independent Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine, among others. Hartnett's access to non-mainstream alternative spaces offered a view into a previously unseen part of this undocumented subculture. Although his work was journalistic in approach, he claims he has always attempted to capture real life from a moral perspective, saying, 'I tend not to take photographs that are in any way manipulative or exploitative. When I have, for example, photographed someone who has been drunk or drug-fucked, I will often edit these out of a presentation as they can be demeaning. I do not do nudes. Sometimes I have photographed dancers who look so lost, and these images tend not to get published as I feel a camera can be invasive and that is not my intention. I feel very protective about my subjects.' Hartnett regularly documents London Fashion Week, Graduate Fashion Week, Free Range, plus music festivals, with his favourite being the annual Rebellion Punk Festival. As a collector of vintage photography, Hartnett has until very recently been a major contributor to the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive, with his work now represented by Lee Dalton at Photoshot / Avalon. His broadcasting work has included MTV, VH1, RTL, BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery / TLC.
Awards and honours
Hartnett has won a North West Arts Award. In 2007, Hartnett was also declared winner of The Manchester Monologues Manchester Metropolitan University Literary Competition, in collaboration with Urbis Offcut at The Manchester Fringe Festival.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.PETRIe. Time of love, time of death: the poetry of PP Hartnett – Features, Culture.
- 2.P-P Hartnett: 'I had that black suit on three times a week' – Features, Books. The Independent. August 2021.
- 3.Carrie O'Grady. Review: Rock'n'Roll Suicide by PP Hartnett | Books. The Guardian. 30 November 2002.
- 4.Garratt, Sheryl. Night Fever – News. The Independent. 10 May 1997.
- 5.Here. The Advocate – Google Books. 31 March 1998.
- 6.Brookes, Les. Gay male fiction since Stonewall . – Google Books. Taylor & Francis. 14 July 2008. 9780203892206.
- 7.Sexual abuse addressed in a new novel. Telegraph & Argus. 2015-03-18.
- 8.hartnett.uk.com.
- 9.XLR8R. 'Paul Hartnett's Creatures of the Night' – News.
- 10.PMYCA. 'The Style Stalker in Search of What's New & Next' – News.
- 11.Fused. 'THE STYLE HERITAGE OF YOUTH CULTURE > PYMCA' – News.
- 12.hartnett.uk.com.
- 13.'Haworth writer using art of a serial killer' – News. Keighley News.
- 14.Vada Magazine. 'Hartnett's controversial album banned as book released' – News.
- 15.Electronic books website Apple iBooks rejects new work by Haworth author Paul Hartnett. Keighley News. 2015-07-16.
- 16.Hartnett, P. P. Google Books: Full Screen. 17 August 2015. 9780993194115.
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