Jono Borden
- Screenwriter
- Executive Producer
- Music Supervisor
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.
Borden’s bibliography, discography, and filmography form a sprawling, occult archive of fourteen books, two discs, and an ever-expanding cinematic catalogue. His canon includes the début Simple Simony (2013), the verse novel Isaac & Iskandar (2015), the double album 7×5 (Uncut) (2016), Between the Silver and the Mirror (2017), the novel Where the Willow Does Not Weep (2019), the esoteric bibliography Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecæ Ionathani Bordenii (2021), the collection Diamond & Dagger (2021), the Byron biopic Lightning in the Veins (2023), the twisted tales of Cor Hydræ (2023), the horror of Prologue to an Echo (2024), the polemic Bullets in the Temple (2025), and the infernal descent of New Pornographies: A Backward Path to Heaven (2027).
His recent cinematic incursions include the original screenplays 360 Degrees of Self-Interest (2026) and The Geometry of Ruin (2026), alongside the definitive collection The Obsidian Mirror Trilogy: A Study in Stone and Shadow (2026).
Referring to Borden as "brazen," men of letters like George Elliott Clarke have noted he is "set to rise from obscurity," drawing lines of descent from Byron, Blake, Laforgue, Dylan, Cohen, and Hendri--a "great, rock songsmith" with the necessary guts to stare into the abyss.
Loud in his art and sphinx-like in his life, this scholar of religious and film studies practices the high ceremonial arts. As a committed individualist, he serves as his own lens, designer, and architect. He orchestrates his empire through a constellation of entities: Jono Borden Publishers, Inc. (the printed word), Jono Borden Records, Inc. (sonic disruption), Ritualistic Pictures, Inc. (the visual occult), Aquilifer the Urban Hermit Spiritual Services, Inc. (metaphysical interventions), and Poeta Non Grata Music, Inc. (the administration of rights and forbidden sounds).
He lives, designs, and practices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where he continues to map the geometry of ruin.
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.
Borden’s bibliography, discography, and filmography form a sprawling, occult archive of fourteen books, two discs, and an ever-expanding cinematic catalogue. His canon includes the début Simple Simony (2013), the verse novel Isaac & Iskandar (2015), the double album 7×5 (Uncut) (2016), Between the Silver and the Mirror (2017), the novel Where the Willow Does Not Weep (2019), the esoteric bibliography Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecæ Ionathani Bordenii (2021), the collection Diamond & Dagger (2021), the Byron biopic Lightning in the Veins (2023), the twisted tales of Cor Hydræ (2023), the horror of Prologue to an Echo (2024), the polemic Bullets in the Temple (2025), and the infernal descent of New Pornographies: A Backward Path to Heaven (2027).
His recent cinematic incursions include the original screenplays 360 Degrees of Self-Interest (2026) and The Geometry of Ruin (2026), alongside the definitive collection The Obsidian Mirror Trilogy: A Study in Stone and Shadow (2026).
Referring to Borden as "brazen," men of letters like George Elliott Clarke have noted he is "set to rise from obscurity," drawing lines of descent from Byron, Blake, Laforgue, Dylan, Cohen, and Hendri--a "great, rock songsmith" with the necessary guts to stare into the abyss.
Loud in his art and sphinx-like in his life, this scholar of religious and film studies practices the high ceremonial arts. As a committed individualist, he serves as his own lens, designer, and architect. He orchestrates his empire through a constellation of entities: Jono Borden Publishers, Inc. (the printed word), Jono Borden Records, Inc. (sonic disruption), Ritualistic Pictures, Inc. (the visual occult), Aquilifer the Urban Hermit Spiritual Services, Inc. (metaphysical interventions), and Poeta Non Grata Music, Inc. (the administration of rights and forbidden sounds).
He lives, designs, and practices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where he continues to map the geometry of ruin.
