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limited edition of 100, each signed by
the artist and the designer
zenscotlit handbound small white booklet containing four sampled haiku from twentieth century
Scottish poets: Burns, Stevenson, MacDiarmid, Muir burns snowfall
Aves Pocket-sized paperback ISBN 978 1 904211 06 7 Aves — the Latin name for the zoological class we know as Birds — becomes, without the 's', an expression both of welcome and of farewell. Aves is a lyrical yet clear-eyed flock of homages to the winged, beaked kingdom. Twenty-two prose poems offer glimpses into the world of wild birds and the psychology of watching them. The book includes 'A Dropped Feather', a personal essay about a lifelong fascination for these vivid creatures that hover and circle above, and dart through, our days.
'...these
vibrant prose poems are so much more than leaves from a naturalist's
notebook; the poet's vision has been adjusted by "the Cherub's
Contemplation" to the degree that they have become "thoughts,
with feathers on". Indeed, the observations are no static
portraiture out of Audubon, but rather they hop and skip and take
confident flight as the registers and metaphors are deftly manipulated
from Latinate phrases to the demotic, swooping from high to low and up
again, delighting the reader with what another poet-naturalist (and
priest) would call the "inscape" of its subjects, as in "Corvus
corone corone": "Hack-beaked, scale-legged, sponge of
colours, with a blue, brillianteened sheen. A synonym for 'gloat'.
Sacerdotally unsettling". Beautifully produced by Essence Press,
these prose poems add a welcome dimension to the form.' Window on the Garden tall pamphlet, full colour photographic cover design
by Morven Gregor, fuchsia pink end papers. ISBN 978 1 904211 07 5
Window on the Garden was written over the span of one year. This book-length poem charts the simple pleasures a garden brings, the humorous and frustrating encounters it provides, and the reflective ongoing life of the poet as he observes, reads, mows the grass and prunes the trees. The result is a deceptively simple yet enlightening insight into the complex workings of the mind that coexist alongside the delightful ordinariness of daily life. Short-listed for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Pamphlet Award. 'This is another beautifully produced volume from the Essence Press. One of those rare books which can be judged by its cover, Whyte's sequence of vignettes snatched from a year in his back garden is both lovely and unsettling. Images of the seasons in a garden, "the daisies enjoying/ their stay of decapitation" mingle with personal reflections on gardening, birds, home life, literature and music, while the outside world intrudes in the form of the 7/7 bombings, the Iraq War and missives from Edinburgh City Council. Impossible to describe, like Joni Mitchell and James Joyce deciding to rewrite Thompson's 'The Seasons' in the style of Sappho, the best way to do justice to this poem is just to read it.' Scotland on Sunday Cantus white square handbound single poem
booklet Arvo Pärt is playing as the rain is falling. Arvo Pärt is rain as the falling plays. Arvo Pärt is failing as the playing rain. Arvo Pärt is praying in the falling rain. Arvo Pärt is playing as the rain is falling. Postcards Five Waves to learn to look at the sea is to learn to look to learn to listen to the sea is to learn to listen to learn to think about the sea is to learn to think to learn to wait by the sea is to learn to wait to learn to forget the sea is to learn to forget
island postcard 2,
2004 Also available as postcards: see also island
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