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A pair of pamphlets, with illustrations by the artist and five poems by Alice Oswald to coincide with the opening of Garry Fabian Miller’s exhibition, Adore, at Arnolfini, Bristol, on 18th February 2023. Cyanometer is a ten-page, concertina-folded pamphlet setting two poems and three Fabian Miller square artworks from 2021.[…]

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Bordered Gothic

A ten-page concertina pamphlet inside a cruciform wrapper published to mark the completion of printmaker Sarah Gillespie’s 2022 residency at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The wrapper reproduces her mezzotint, Bordered Gothic. The pamphlet includes her short essay about environmental depletion and the ‘red’ list that the Bordered Gothic shares with[…]

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Against Leaves

The sister of The Same Blackbird and a second souvenir of celebrations to mark the quatercentenary of the Oxford Botanic Garden. The C5 postal packet combines a protest poem and a riddle by Alice Oswald and a reconstruction of Garry Fabian Miller’s 2011 artwork The Last Poplar. The 26pp pamphlet and[…]

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The Same Blackbird

The souvenir of a song recital that did not happen – or the score for a performance that accompanies every sunrise between any January and July – The Same Blackbird was published to celebrate the quatercentenary of the Oxford Botanic Garden. The C5 postal packet comprises two excerpts from Strathmore[…]

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Signal Fires : 6 Notebooks

An account, in six themed pamphlets, of Signal Fires, a UK-wide sequence of outdoor, Covid lockdown performance events co-ordinated by the Fuel theatre company in autumn 2020. Edited by Maddy Costa and designed by The Letter Press, the collection includes the text of Alice Oswald’s long poem/performance, The Watchman, also[…]

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Metronomy – Small World

Vinyl and CD artwork for the album Small World by Metronomy, released by Because Music in February 2022. Features questionable use of Berthold Wolpe’s 1936 typeface Albertus and photography from the archive of Kate Mount. (Albertus is most strongly associated with the book covers Berthold Wolpe designed in the 1950s[…]

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A Riddle

A poem by Alice Oswald, distributed as a letter card to 500 subscribers via TORCH, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. It announced the broadcast at midnight 0n 30th November, 2020, of a dance inspired by the poem, choreographed and performed by Estela Merlos and Thomasin Haluk Gülgeç. The broadcast also[…]

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Blind Spot: Staring down the void

A collection of original essays, artworks, writings and resources responding to a wider Blind Spot artistic research project (2016–2020) initiated by the Norwegian Theatre Academy. Features contributions commissioned from Alice Oswald, Irving Finkel, Nigel Llewellyn and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson.

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NOBODY The score for a performance by Joanna MacGregor and Alice Oswald at Dartington Hall on July 31st 2019

A limited edition pamphlet with concertina-folded insert published to coincide with an improvised performance of NOBODY by Alice Oswald and pianist Joanna MacGregor at the 2019 Dartington International Summer School and Festival. The score is one in a series of four pamphlets called Souvenirs of Dartington Hall simultaneously published and[…]

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MOTH

The book of Sarah Gillespie’s mezzotint engravings of moths, with a poem by Alice Oswald, is republished in an enlarged, casebound edition including an introduction by the naturalist and writer Mark Cocker. The new edition coincides with exhibitions during 2021 at Greenhill Arts, Moretonhampstead, Devon until September 25th, the Rabley[…]

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