A letterpress printed chapbook of a poem sequence I wrote in 2012, 'the thing is...'. More often than not, what follows the words is anything but, which was the starting point for these twelve poems which take the phrase as their preface. The poems, written whilst living in Colva, were born of a deep engagement with the Radnorshire landscape. Their deliberately emphatic openings are shaded and contradicted, their initial resolve dissipated. Then all twelve poems are recombined in a dreamlike counterpart, providing new landscapes that are equally as rich and often as plausible. The booklet can be read from both directions with the poem sequences meeting in the middle.
28 page letterpress printed booklet, printed on Ingres paper
Edition of 24 copies
158 x 140mm
Edition of 24 copies
158 x 140mm
