Monotononie

Simon Cutts

2020

another volume of the poems translated to French by Vincent Barras, following the first 'Monotonie' in 2010.96pp 16.5 x 11.5cm offset, sewn paperback. Editions Héros- Limite, Geneva. ISBN 978-2-88955-021-0

€14.00 P

Living Locally series 2002-2019

Erica Van Horn

2020

The complete series : 32 items, books, pamphlets, cards in box 27 x 19 x 6 cms. Some completely out of print, and this combined set is the only way they can be acquired. No.1-8 Some Words For Living Locally 2002, No. 9 Chaynie 2005, No.10 against mice burn sage 2007 No.11 Gifts from the Government 2007, No.12 Small Houses: Buildings of Tom Browne 2007 No.13 Eight Old Irish Apples 2008, No.14 Rosemary 2008, No.15 Weather Forecast 2008 No.16 Rain 2009, No.17 Eight Old Irish Potatoes 2011, No.18 Some More Words For Living Locally 2011 No.19 A Hot Drop 2012, No.20 Elderflower 2012, No.21Born in Clonmel 2012, No.22The Shop in Grange 2013 No.23 The Salute 2013, No.24 Signpost 2013, No.25 TEA 2013, No.26 Raft Race 2013, No.27 Blow-in 2014 No.28 springs, pins & spirals, blades, hinges & nails, spikes & staples 2014, No.29 BUS 2014 No.30 The Cock’s Step 2015, No.31I always have an audience1, 2015 No.32 Abroad 2015 No.33 Natural Cheese 2015, No.34 Printing Shed 2015, No.35 ABOVE 2016 No.36 A Misplacement of Lichen 2016, No.37 The Fermoy Pencil 2017, No.38 I always have an Audience No. 2 2019 No.39 Distemper Brush 2019, No.40 Knocklofty Bridge 2019.

€145.00 E / AB / W / O

A Walled Garden : A History of the Spandau Garden in the Time of the Architect Albert Speer

Ian Hamilton Finlay & Ian Gardner

2019

192pp 230 x 170mm, casebound in cloth with embossed image and headbands. ISBN 978-0-906630-60-0. A Walled Garden reproduces for the first time the complete set of watercolours from the early nineteen eighties that Ian Gardner made in collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay for the unpublished book, A Walled Garden: A History of the Spandau Garden in the Time of the Architect Albert Speer. Finlay conceived the project after corresponding with the former Third Reich architect in the late 1970s, shortly after the publication of Clara and Richard Winston’s English translation of, Spandau: The Secret Diaries (1976), Speer’s clandestine record of his twenty-year imprisonment in Spandau prison from 1946 to 1966, where one of his main pre-occupations was the making of a secret rubble garden from the debris of the courtyard. Co-published with St Paulinus and printed in an edition of 500, with an extensive commentary by Ross Hair.

€75.00 AB CB W

Descriptions of Literature by Gertrude Stein handwritten by Erica Van Horn

Gertrude Stein & Erica Van Horn

2019

144pp 150 x 140mm, casebound paper over boards. ISBN 978-906630-62-4. Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were written by hand. Her line length was not made by any particular decision. The length of her lines was determined by the width of her ruled notebook page. I did not worry about my line length being shorter than hers. I did not even think about it. Her sentences went from handwriting and later they were typeset and now they are handwritten again. This is just the way things sometimes happen. Writing someone else’s list has been a joy. Handwriting these sentences by Stein has provided me with a glorious kind of escape. It is not my writing. It is her writing. I am not the author. I am the writer. But as I am writing her writing, it demands all of my attention not to change things to make them into my own. As I write one of her sentences in this list of descriptions, I decide that the sentence I am writing right then is my absolute favourite of these sentences and then when I am involved in another sentence and I have to write it again and again to get it written right, I decide that that sentence is my favourite in this list of sixty-six sentences. Having a favourite is just a small thing because I am immediately on to the next sentence and once again I must copy and consider and write as carefully as my poor stiffening hand will allow. This is an exercise in restraint but it is a freedom too. I love the physical and hypnotic movement of my pen on the page. I love writing by hand.

€18.00 AB CB W

Play Book

Maurice Scully

2019

188pp 210 x 150mm printed digitally, casebound paper over boards.ISBN 978-0-906630-61-7.Play Book is the new collection of poems by Irish poet, Maurice Scully. His writing began in the early 1970s, and since 1981 he has published 10 books of poetry with publishers such as Wild Honey Press and Shearsman Books. Maurice Scully has been editor of a number of influential magazines (Icarus, and The Beau), and through the 1970s and 1980s organised important readings and literary gatherings, and over the years he has taken part in conferences and festivals in Ireland, the UK, and the US, where his readings are prized as key interpretations of his complex work.

€18.00 P