8 x 8 series
Format can be a discipline rather than a marketing convenience. The original format of eight pages, eight by eight inches, suggests a brief but spatially generous book idea, poetic rather than discursive, with many changes in typography and radical shifts of tone. The series is ongoing and will eventually be housed in an 8 x 8 box.
Seven Apples (More)
Judy Kravis
I woke up this morning with a dream
in my head about a chaplain’s wayside box
I came upon half-buried in earth
Sunlit Quiet A meeting of ways
A perfect place for an apple tree
A chaplain appeared, robed, serene
He opened up the wayside box &
The needy appeared People needing
The chaplain and the chaplain needing
People was not yet a place
For an apple tree I thought
Running through a few varieties
In my mind nonetheless
The fifth in the 8 x 8 x 8 series, 8 pages, 200 x 200 mm,
handsewn. Edition of 57, September 2025
€7.00
Utopia
Judy Kravis & Peter Morgan
We invited people to imagine beyond their present state,
to conjure a society in which they’d like to live.
Here’s a sudden freedom to release what’s possible, regardless of everything, in a tempestuous forward movement.
We live in a state of ranting and fear. We only have time for opposition. Utopia isn’t opposition, it’s radical dreaming.
24pp, 200 x 200mm, handsewn, cover with french flaps.
Edition of 101, June 2024
€15.00
Counting Backwards From One Hundred
Judy Kravis
Counting backwards from one hundred when you can’t sleep revives an autobiography of numbers: street numbers, opus numbers, peg numbers, birthdays, buses, ages, dates, years, movies, books, songs, long division, multiplication, punctuation, superstition, one or two introverted numbers, numbers best ignored.
24pp, 200 x 200 mm, handsewn and bound, cover with french flaps,
Edition of 101, September 2023
€15.00
Livre à la dérive / Book adrift / Catalogue Déraisonné
Judy Kravis
A reflection on How and Why I Make Books, the writer’s relationship with the land, plus a statement on the nature of the artist’s book and a list of all JK’s books. The fourth in the 8 x 8 x 8 series.
8pp, 200 x 200mm, handsewn, Edition of 57, A boreen book, April 2022
€7.00
The Orpheus Fugue
Judy Kravis
A fugue is an escape that finds itself, with joy or relief or fear, in the place where it started. The Orpheus Fugue is a swift divergent run through operas by Monteverdi & Gluck, plus Jean Cocteau’s Orphée and a coffee bar in Maldon, Essex. The third in the 8 x 8 x 8 series.
8pp, 200 x 200mm, handsewn, Edition of 57, A boreen book, February 2021
€7.00
The Nine O’Clock Movie
Judy Kravis
A zombie falls in love with a woman after eating her boyfriend’s brain and starts to regain human feelings.
Nine o’clock is the watershed
After that you’re on your own
8pp, 200 x 200mm, handsewn, Edition of 57,
A boreen book, September 2017
€7.00
What Happens When Nothing Else Does
Judy Kravis
One Saturday morning in a fresh young pause in the Wolf Café this phrase began to occupy the back of my brain. An eight-page fugue around what happened next.
8pp, 200 x 200mm, handsewn, Edition of 57,
A boreen book, September 2017
€7.00
