REMARKABLES
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The Italian Chapel
Hardback (quarter bound in leather) £65.00Morrissey visited Orkney in 2018 as Poet in Residence at the St Magnus Music Festival, and visited the chapel built by Italian prisoners of war – all that remains of the internment camp there. The chapel is “an act of transubstantiation”, a highly ornate creation made of two Nissan huts. This beautifully produced book contains Morrissey’s eponymous poem, accompanied by two abstract engravings by Maribel Mas. Quarter bound in canary leather with turquoise cloth boards, reflecting the lines:
“…the shallows
turqoise over yellow
in the bay, the sky cerulean…”
A limited edition of 75 copies, signed by both poet and artist.
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Exit the Known World
Hardback (quarter bound in leather) £95.00Six poems rooted in the Northumbrian landscape, first conceived as Poems of the Air, not printed but instead just digital recordings by Armitage himself, audible within a five-yard radius of a specific map reference using a mobile phone or other listening device. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings commissioned for this edition from Hilary Paynter. This is the same format as Waymarkings, but quarter bound in grass-green leather with light green cloth boards. A limited edition of 125, signed by both poet and artist.
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Waymarkings
Hardback (quarter bound in leather) £95.00Eight poems that emerged from Armitage’s two long walks, first along the Pennine Way and then along the coast to Cornwall, presented as a sequence in geographical and chronological order. This is a lovely edition designed by John Grice of the Evergreen Press, with eight specially commissioned wood engravings by Hilary Paynter. Quarter bound in green leather with dun cloth boards. A limited edition of 100 copies, signed by both poet and artist.
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