Money is a Kind of Poetry is a meditation
on contemporary alienation and the processes by which every new technological
advance seems to increase our isolation from each other, and the more connected
we are the less we appear to know ourselves. Donnelly looks at the symbolic
value of money, the dead language of economists and bankers and its shiny
promises and slippery meanings. Accompanied by the Dante, Rimbaud and Paul
Muldoon, he shows us a contemporary and violent vision of Hell in which ‘exchange rates slip like tectonic
plates’ and ‘the money is digesting itself’.