Father's Hook
1978: edition of 100
330 x 165 mm; 48 pp., of which six leaves fold out
24 sheets of thin Chinese handmade paper folded at the fore-edge, Chinese-bound with invisible thread and held between two pieces of varnished plywood, secured by an elastic band. The imagery is gained from the manipulation of rectangular lino blocks exactly the same size as the book which are worked and turned, printed in split duct colour in black, yellow, orange, green and red. The texts are printed letterpress in Akzidenz Grotesk type.
This book carries a cycle of poetry written during and after the death of my dockworking father. It is dedicated to him and his labouring. The book is in all respects as formally severe as it could be made.
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