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news from nowhere
William Morris published News from Nowhere in 1890 as a vision of an ideal twenty-first century. From the actual twenty-first century, here is a book of echoes and questions. Both sympathetic and contrary signals run between images and words. Is every romantic the last?
20pp, 150x150mm, stapled, edition of 101. A Road Book, October 2016
€7
Revealing Angelica
Weeding, digging, planting, watering, pruning, picking, eating, looking, thinking, naming. A headlong diary of the things the gardener does in a year, and the everyday things the artist finds there: Hose in its own flood, Plain cotton dishrag left on post in 1977, Orange twine on black corrugated, spattered with lime.
64pp, sewn, 164 x 210mm, pbk, french flaps, 30 colour photographs. Numbered edition of 501. ISBN 0 9519358 4 4. Road books, 2005.
€15
The beach huts of Port Man'ech
The people you watch on the beach and the ones who watch you, the idle and the playful things you do on the sand, the book you read and the one in which you're written. 30 poems written on beaches from Cork to San Francisco. 30 photographs of beach huts in Brittany.
64pp sewn, 164 x 210 mm, pbk, french flaps, b/w photographs. Numbered edition of 301. ISBN 0 9519358 3 6. Road books, 2005.
€15
Tea with Marcel Proust
Drink tea with Marcel Proust, dance with Mallarme, ride with Rimbaud's drunken boat. An interview with a dead novelist, a poet reincarnated, a novel retold, french lessons and letters, with collage and photomontages. French writers reinvented in words and pictures. To be consumed with madeleine, absinthe, opium, according to taste.
76pp, perfect bound, 210 x 244mm, pbk, french flaps, colour and b/w photographs. Edition of 900. ISBN 0 9519358 1 X. Road books, 1993.
€15
Rough Diamante
Play it by ear, and, if in doubt, drive south. Rough Diamante is a rough and ready fandangle with sequins and style. Artist and writer on the road in Italy. The launching pad for Road Books. With coloured endpaper seen through dotted cellophane, 30 tipped in colour photocopies of collage, photographs and drawings.
64 pp, stapled, 210 x 240 mm, pbk, french flaps. Numbered edition of 500. ISBN 0 9519358 0 1. Road books, 1992.
€15