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.

Bookbinding courses in October

You can now book places on upcoming bookbinding courses in October. Also, there's one last September course - Thursday 27th starting at 5pm at the Albion Beatnik, 34 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AA. 

You can check the dates and types of courses and book a place here http://www.immaginacija.com/bookbinding-courses

Courses courses courses

There are next dates for the courses in the booking form so you can book a place or if none of them suit you, email me and arrange an individual date.

Bookbinding courses at the Albion Beatnik

Apart from hundreds of notebooks and diaries I still keep making, I also started running short bookbinding courses. Within three hours you can learn the basics of a particular bookbinding style and at the and make your own notebook.

At the moment there are few dates for the course of Coptic binding but soon I'd like to start doing several different bookbinding styles.

If you live in Oxford or somewhere close and would like to come for a course, you can book a place on my website.

Today I got an idea - I will create a special diary or if you want - a journal - and will send it around the world so everyone can write something in it - greetings, wishes, something about his or her country - and then pass it on.

So I created Robin, which is my favourite name for a journal. I always give names to my journal. Now I will seek the first person who will receive Robin and starts it's journey.

Follow Robin's Facebook page where everyone who finds him can post pictures and comments where Robin is at the particular moment.