[POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 13/25)

A$120 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. Red-Letter Series [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping , 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration), 20 pp; 3. Stephen Edgar From Midnight to Dawn , 24 pp; 4. Lisa Gorton Mirror Landscape , 28 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, embarked on a new initiative in 2021. Its Red-Letter series consists of poetry chapbooks representing new work by major award-winning Australian poets. Each title is issued in a strictly limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. The chapbooks come with original woodcut wrappers, created especially for the series by Melbourne artist Phil Day. Douglas Stewart Fine Books is honoured to be the sole distributor of the fourth instalment (of four) in the Red-Letter series, to be offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Eileen Chong Sydney poet Eileen Chong was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien and Peranakan (Straits Chinese) descent. She has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025). Her poems have been shortlisted for major awards, including the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Arts in Asia Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literar

• Binding: Hardcover

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