haiku na feirme: Twenty New Poems by John Fitzgerald - Visual Interventions by Jamie Murphy
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2021.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
Signed by poet and artist. From a limited edition of 100 copies.
#26 of 70 numbered copies that have been quarter bound in leather with painted Griffen Mill paper over boards and held in cloth-covered slipcase. Designed, typeset and letterpress printed by Jamie Murphy at his newly finished home studio. The type is Frutiger's Meridien Italic (1966), printed onto damp 65-130 gsm Griffen Mill, the last remaining sheets of Irish handmade paper. The illustrations have been printed directly from blocks from a 300-year old oak tree onto 39 gsm Japanese Hosokawa.
Ireland’s rural landscape is both subject and setting in this sequence of twenty haikus penned by John FitzGerald from the spring of 2019 through summer of 2021. Taking his inspiration from the land and its plant, animal and human inhabitants, these poems follow the seasons and celebrate the richness and diversity of life on the land. Jamie Murphy has produced six abstract woodblock prints which act as pauses in the text. The prints follow the seasons and are inspired by the poet’s landscape.
Item #9023466-1/8 x 10-1/4”, quarter toned off-white leather with handmade mauve paper over boards, unpaginated, 20 haikus on multicolored handmade paper, each on its own page, and interspersed with six original full-page illustrations.
Fine in green cloth-covered slipcase with a bump to one edge.
Price: $500.00