Fairs at which Essence Press and island will be exhibiting, with items for sale
11th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, Leeds
7 & 8 March 2008
Details to follow.
Stanza Poetry Festival
15-16 March 2008, Town Hall
Details to follow.
SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR
Conway
Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (Holborn tube)
Friday 12 and Saturday 13 October 2007 11am-7pm
Admission free
Recent
small press publishing from the UK and abroad, featuring work by contemporary
artists, writers and poets. Includes readings, talks, events and book launches.
See RGAP www.rgap.co.uk for full programme
details.
BY LEAVES WE LIVE: A CELEBRATION
OF
ARTISTS' BOOKS AND SMALL PRESSES
A
one day fair at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Saturday
6 October 2007, 11-6 pm
Free,
drop in at any time
Stalls
and displays, talks and launches running throughout the day
Drop
in to browse or buy.
All
under one roof for one day.
For
readers, writers, artists, designers, publishers – all welcome.
A
not-to-be-missed event in the poetry year.
Exhibitors include:
Wild
Hawthorn Press: the Archive of Ian Hamilton Finlay; Moschatel Press;
Weproductions; David Faithfull; Painted, Spoken; The Caseroom Press; Akros
Publications; Mariscat Press; Perdika Press; Stichill Marigold Press;
Kettillonia; HappenStance Press; Enitharmon Press; Essence Press; The
Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop; Word Power Bookshop
A schedule of talks will run throughout the day. All are approximately 30 minutes long, no booking required.
11.30 am : Migrant / Monster / Think
Tank, with Hamish Whyte and Richard Price
Join us for the unveiling of ‘The Monster’, the duplicator used by
Gael Turnbull to print the influential Migrant magazine. With
Hamish Whyte (Mariscat Press) speaking and reading a piece specially written by
Jill Turnbull for the occasion. Following this, poet and curator Richard Price
will give a short talk on the history of Migrant Press. Edited by Michael Shayer
and Gael Turnbull, Migrant was an early importer-exporter of Black
Mountain writing and the poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, and Roy
Fisher. Richard Price is Head of Modern British Collections at the British
Library and co-author of British Poetry Magazines, 1914-2000: A History and
Bibliography.
1pm : Akros Publications and the Means
of Production, with Duncan Glen
Illustrated with examples of production, from handset letterpress for limited
editions via commercial letterpress, gestetner duplicating, and small offset
litho using IBM golfball and paper plates, to today's desktop systems.
2.30 : Inkubator: Artists' Books and
Multiples, with David Faithfull
Artist David Faithfull talks about curating the critically acclaimed
exhibition 'Inkubator' and the issues involved in presenting Artists' Books to
the public, including the actual handling of the work and creating
site specific spaces to intensify the overall 'reading' or 'viewing' experience.
3.30 : Ideas to Print, with Helen
Douglas
Helen Douglas, of Weproductions, looks at the choice between
commercally printing or handprinting editions. Demonstrating with books, she
examines the possibilities, the advantages of each method, and how the
choice of printing method helps realize artistic intentions.
4.30 : Giving the Poem a Voice, with
Barrie Tullett
Barrie Tullett of The Caseroom Press talks about the relationship between
the poem and the page.
5.30 : A Poetry Reading by Richard Price , editor of Painted, spoken and author of Lucky Day and Greenfields (Carcanet).