The construction and form of the bookwork set it apart from ordinary mass market books. It is a craft object where content and form come together to create an artwork that can be admired for its physical beauty and engaged with by opening it up. Books can take our minds away from the present moment into the realm of imagination, memory and aspiration. Likewise the bookwork is a vehicle for thought and expression. This blog looks at the book as art and all things related to books.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Live and On Loan
The Saison Poetry Library is celebrating 100 years. It has poetry from 1912 to the present day. We met up with the poet and storyteller Rachel Rose Reid in the library with poets Karen McCarthy Woolf, Malika Booker and Raymond Antrobus. They read from their favourite poems in the collection as well as some of their own work. Some of us read out poems we liked at the open mic. We also contributed thoughts, poems and doodles to a zine that was made during the evening by Ladies at the Alexandria Library Press Desk (think Egypt but postmodern
www.ladiesofthepress.org
This is part of London Literature Festival 3 - 12 July 2012
and this is the library blog for Litfest 2012
litandspoken.southbank.co.uk
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