On 21/05/13 17:13, Andrew Burke wrote:
> But isn't it a good track record! I was in the very early days when it was
> Folio/SALT and published from Western Australia.
Yeah, I feel sad that Salt has to stop for now.
I would very much like to get to the understanding that a book of poetry
by a single poet is itself a work of art. And this requires a
collaboration from many different artists, thinkers, whatever.
In thinking through how I write Barbecue a lot of thought goes into how
it will work as a small book and this includes typography and book
design, which I hope to leave open to designers. (I do some quick mocks
to see how it may look on a printed page and as a bound book and my
first book was presented in ReadySetGo format to give some ideas to the
designer.)
I would like very much to hit on the head and do away with the idea that
thinking through what I am writing as a book is being sentimental for a
gone by era. I do not in any way think that books are an old technology
and that poets need to think of other ways of writing other then the 50
to 70 page book, as I have seen argued elsewhere and rather short
sighted and lacking in imagination. Sure there are other ways, but this
is not the end of the book. It is the way that books are thought of (or
not thought of) that is the problem.
I guess what I would really like to see is a discussion about books as
an art media and the fact that we do not live in the era of the end of
the book (contra crude misreading of Derrida.)
Am I making sense here... I worked in publishing as a book designer and
director, after leaving art school, so maybe my background in the ideas
that books are works of art is a little obscure?
It would be nice if we can talk about books as art.
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