[POETRY] Weather Event / Merry War (of Never Meeting and Never Ending) / Clouded / Catullan Rag LXV-LXXXI (copy 13/25)

A$120 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2023. Red-Letter Series . 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. Claire Gaskin Weather Event , 24 pp.; 2. LK Holt Merry War (of Never Meeting and Never Ending) , 24 pp.; 3. Philip Mead Clouded , 28 pp.; 4. Peter Rose Catullan Rag LXV-LXXXI , 20 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 third instalment of four titles in the Red-Letter series, offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Claire Gaskin’s first full-length poetry collection a bud was published by John Leonard Press in 2006, and was shortlisted for the John Bray SA Festival Awards for Literature. Paperweight (2013) and Eurydice Speaks (2021) were published by Hunter Publishers. Her fourth collection Ismene’s Survivable Resistance was completed as the creative component of her PhD in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, and was published by Puncher Wattmann in 202

• Binding: Hardcover

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