[POETRY] The Earlwood Journal (The Fire Season) / Book: 15-Line Sonnets / Three of Them / My Workshop of Filthy Creation

A$120 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2021. 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. Laurie Duggan The Earlwood Journal (The Fire Season) , 16 pp; 2. Jordie Albiston Book: 15-Line Sonnets , 20 pp; 3. Ken Bolton Three of Them , 24 pp; 4. Jill Jones My Workshop of Filthy Creation , 16 pp. Life Before Man, the poetry imprint of Gazebo Books, has 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 first four titles in the Red-Letter series, released in January 2022 and offered only as a complete set of four chapbooks. The poets: Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and has been involved in the poetry worlds of that city, as well as Sydney and Brisbane. He has published more than twenty books of poetry, and been recipient of the Anne Elder Poetry Award, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Age Poetry Book of the Year, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. In 2006 he moved to the UK and lived in Faversham, Kent until 2018 wh

• Binding: Hardcover

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