Limited edition for Claire Trévien

I was recently commissioned by Claire Trévien, Anglo-Breton poet and writer, to produce a very limited edition of her French pamphlet. Claire sent me a beautiful engraving made by her grandma and I used it for the cover design. It is printed on white handmade paper produced in a small paper mill in Želetice in the Czech Republic. I left it untrimmed to keep the original deckle edge. Pages are printed on blue recycled paper and pamphlets are hand-sewn with white thread.

Literary diary 2013 is finally released

Here they are  - Literary diaries 2013, weekly planners with a poem for each month written by twelve wonderful Oxford poets - Edward Pope, Dan Holloway, George Chopping, Anna McCrory, Lucy Ayrton, Rob Sykes, Adam Flint, Stephen Hancock, Tina Sederholm, Henry Stead, Paul Askew, Anna Hobson and the intro poem by Dennis Harrison.

The diaries are completely handmade, hand-stitched, recycled and recyclable and waiting for your NewYear's plans. 

You can have them for £8 each at the Albion Beatnik (34 Walton Street), several copies are already in stock. I shall gradually make more copies and you can also reserve them by e-mail.

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.