Jono Borden
Born 20 October 1987
Provocateur-Poet
JONO BORDEN is a Canadian poet, novelist, lyricist, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose transgressive lyricism acts as a corrosive agent upon the sterile surface of contemporary discourse. Jagged, subversive, mercilessly, hauntingly avant-garde.
Borden’s voluminous outpouring is a calculated smattering and smashing of traditions, conjuring reactions as diverse and divisive as the ghosts he invites to the table. Always with an axe to grind—an ancestral inheritance from cousin Lizzie, he is far more adept at swinging hatchets than burying them. He splits his opponents with deep-hitting wit, unashamed to articulate the forbidden and the profane. What he makes deviates; what he touches ruptures.
Disturber-of-Shit
Borden’s bibliography, discography, and filmography form a sprawling, occult archive of fourteen books, two discs, and an ever-expanding cinematic catalogue.
Books by Jono Borden in order
Books by Jono Borden in the order they were published, from Simple Simony (2013) to New Pornographies (2027).
- 1Simple Simony
Simple Simony2013 - 2Isaac and Iskandar
Isaac and Iskandar2015 - 3Between the Silver and the Mirror
Between the Silver and the Mirror2017 - 4Where the Willow Does Not Weep
Where the Willow Does Not Weep2019 - 5Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecæ Ionathani Bordeni
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecæ Ionathani Bordenii2021 - 6Diamond & Dagger
Diamond & Dagger2021 - 7Cor Hydræ (Heart of the Snake): Twisted Tales
Cor Hydræ (Heart of the Snake): Twisted Tales2023What's in it (15)
- * Prologue: The Solitary One ~ Vii
- Head ~ 1 {Caput Hydræ}
- Belonging to the Uninhabited Spot
- Gypsy Ryver
- Serpent With a Thousand Tongues
- Heart ~ 57 {Cor Hydræ}
- A Catered Affair
- Heart of the Snake
- Melody & Violence/Rhythm & Bruise
- Tail ~ 113 {Cauda Hydræ}
- At Light's End
- Sumptuous Soirée
- Vigil Andy
- * Epilogue: Hydra-Headed Hermit ~
- A Garden of Ashes (Flaming Words Burned to Splinters)
- 8Lightning in the Veins
Lightning in the Veins2023 - 9Prologue to an Echo
Prologue to an Echo2024What's in it (6)
- Terror in the Ashes (Satan · Wrath · Devil)
- Rumour Spared the Spread (Lucifer · Pride · Death)
- Of Almost Weightless Light (Beelzebub · Gluttony · Angel)
- Written to Be Interrupted (Mammon · Greed · Corpse)
- Called by Names Erased (Asmodeus · Lust · Beggar)
- Blades of Ice Engrave (Belphegor · Sloth · Hourglass)
- 10Bullets in the Temple
Bullets in the Temple2025 - 11360 Degrees of Self-Interest
360 Degrees of Self-Interest2026 - 12The Geometry of Ruin
The Geometry of Ruin2026 - 13The Obsidian Mirror of Trilogy: A Study in Stone and Shadow
The Obsidian Mirror of Trilogy: A Study in Stone and Shadow2026 - 14New Pornographies
New Pornographies2027