Poetry in your pocket

 

As you can see from the image above I have just completed printing, stitching and wrapping  five copies of my three poetry in your pocket booklets.

Each 16 page booklet contains four images and fragmentary poems which respond to the image and are based on a common theme.

 

Flow Country highlights four different features of the flow country in Scotland seen from and around the Forsinard lookout tower.

 

Farewelling the Light is a celebration of the different light at dusk seen from a west facing upper window of our Armadale cottage.

 

What Remains reflects on the human stories associated with four of the many ruins dotted through northern Scotland

 

Following are process-progress images of me cutting the printed pages and wrapping bands, stitching and then assembling with the wrapping bands. The booklets are printed on double sided 130gsm inkjet photo paper. The 16 pages are set out using a template that Kim and I developed so that 16 pages could be printed on one sheet of paper and then cut, folded and stitched to form a 16 page booklet.

The Poetry in Your Pocket booklets will be for sale at our Pop Up Art Show at The Little Red Cottage Gallery on 28-29 November.