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Sarah Race's award-winning short documentary on Barbarian Press! In 2015 Sarah Race asked if she might make a short film about us and the press, and the * * * * * On An Eye Made Quiet [An Eye Made Quiet] is here. And it is absolutely lovely. Carefully designed and printed and bound in daffodils! I was very pleased to receive the book this morning. I am still taking it all in, but I am blown away by the loveliness, the fineness, of this edition. All so beautifully and crisply printed. On Pastoral Elegies I was especially impressed by the design and binding of [Pastoral Elegies] … [Having] the slipcase and spines of the book and folder in the same silk and with flat spines works really well in presenting the book as a single slab. The thin strips of green paper behind the central grey panel on the front cover are very effective and the binding has a more contemporary feel which works well with some of the more antique touches in the typography, together adding to the timeless feel. In fact, as I was looking through the book, it was the feeling of timelessness that came to the fore. … I am very pleased to have both these poems in an edition which gives them space to breathe and which is such a pleasure to hold and read. On The Marriage of True Minds The Marriage of True Minds is another triumph for you. The selection of poems seems inspired, and the engravings beautiful and appropriate. It is a splendid tribute to a clearly happy marriage and a lifetime of work in your magnificent press. The layout, the printing, the binding [are all] in perfect harmony. Thank you once again for making these beautiful and important books. On Wayzgoose Pamphlet Two: The Dingbat... Your Wayzgoose Pamphlet on the Noble Dingbat is a delight from start to finish. On Sudden Immobility: Selected Poems of Molly Holden I received your magnificent book. I really don’t know what to say. It is stunning. What a triumph for all of you. This is no slim volume of poetry. What an expansive, glorious tome! |
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‘From the beginning, publishing private press books that collectors actually want to hold and read, over and over again, has always been the Barbarian Press stock-in-trade.’ Jack Katz, Subscriber
Barbarian Press An Eye Made Quiet, dedicated to our grandson, Michael Daniel, born on November 30, 2023, is now in print. It comprises odes, lyrics, and sonnets by William Wordsworth that recreate the natural world, often through the eyes of childhood. An Afterword by Jan Elsted reflects on Wordworth’s ‘spots of time’, and how looking into Michael’s eyes brought such timeless experiences to mind again. Two of our Loose Canons pamphlets featuring neglected poets will be published in February: the first, a second edition of the poetry of Elinor Wylie from our earlier version of Loose Canons One, is expanded from 6 poems to 18; Loose Canons Two features poems by E.A. Robinson, with a focus on his long dramatic monologue ‘Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford’. Both will be available by the end of February. Pastoral Elegies, our edition of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’, illustrated by renowned English wood engraver Christopher Wormell and published last summer, has received a warm reception from our subscribers. Copies are still available for sale. Meanwhile, Bordering on the Sublime: Ornamental Typography, the Printing Revival, and The Curwen Press continues to move inexorably and gracefully forward. As of January 2025, more than 200 pages have so far been printed, with a further 40 or so of the main text to complete, along with the appendices (an annotated bibliography, a facsimile of Sarah Clutton’s 1960 essay on type ornament, and a catalogue of type flowers used in the book) and a general index. We now project completion of the printing by late 2025. Please go to BOOKS IN PRINT and BOOKS FORTHCOMING to see images and descriptions of all these publications. Also note the PRESS NEWS, now updated. Utile Dulci Now in Print!
An Eye Made Quiet
Pastoral Elegies
Wayzgoose Pamphlet Number Two
Wayzgoose Pamphlet Number One |
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