Literary diary 2013 coming soon

Two months ago I got an idea to create a Literary diary/planner for 2013, which would contain both - a weekly planner and poetry for each month.

I'm really grateful I managed to find 12 great Oxford poets who all agreed to write a poem for the diary. They were all wonderful and the upcoming year will certainly be too with their lovely poems :-) 

You can already look forward to poems by

Edward Pope for January

Dan Holloway for February

George Chopping for March

Anna McCrory for April

Lucy Ayrton for May

Rob Sykes for June

Adam Flint for July

Stephen Hancock for August

Tina Sederholm for September

Henry Stead for October

Paul Askew for November

Anna Hobson for December
and
the foreword from Dennis Harrison

I'm currently working on the typesetting and it'll take me few more days before I start printing and stitching them all together, but I can already show the design of the cover and what it's made of :-)

I was browsing at the Albion Beatnik trying to find some inspiration and I found this Henry Green's book in secondhand section. 

I think 'Loving, Living and Party going' sounds quite promising and inspiring and perhaps that's what we all need for the next year :-) 

So after this shallow judgement of the book by it's cover, actually title, I decided to use the pages of this book as a material for the cover of the Literary diary.

I spent some time playing with glue and knife and templates and ink and made a lot of mess everywhere, but finally here they are - pile of boards waiting for the printed content and the stitching.

The finished Literary diaries will be available from the Albion Beatnik Bookstore hopefully from the second week of October.