Twelve poems / Les Murray ; [etchings by Juliana O'Dean]
- Bib ID:
- 6859580
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Murray, Les A. (Les Allan), 1938-2019, author
- Description:
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- Lindfield, NSW : Published by Juliana O'Dean, [2013]
- ©2013
- 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 30.5 x 40.5 cm., in clamshell box 32 x 42 x 5 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646596143
- Summary:
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This book grew out of the artist's interest in geology and its relationship to human notions of time, permanence and solidity, and an interest in the significance of terrain in defining personal relationships with place. She selected twelve poems by Les Murray that spoke to her of their shared heritage (both the poet and the artist are descended from 19th century Scottish immigrants who settled in the fertile Manning River Valley). The poems were set in a landscape format double page spread, with an etching (printed on BFK Rives 210gsm paper) tipped on to the following right hand page. The longest poem, 'The Gallery,' spreads over three pages. It describes the sinewy line of trees that edge the creek banks in cleared paddocks. The twelve etchings respond through form, colour, texture and atmosphere to elements in the poems and sites of significance to the artist. They were printed on her studio press, on aluminium plates etched with copper sulphate, with sugar lift and aquatint used for painterly mark-making and rich granular surfaces. Up to five colours occur on each image.—Based on the prospectus, and an article in Imprint, Summer 2013.
- Full contents:
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- Poems: Cycling in the lake country
- Evening alone at Bunyah
- Drought dust on the crockery
- Granite country
- The fossil imprint
- The gallery
- Thinking about Aboriginal land rights, I visit the farm I will not inherit
- Slip
- The idyll wheel: cycle of a year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986-April 1987: April, leaf spring
- Toward the imminent days
- Laconics: the forty acres
- Free Kirk Cemetery, Northern New South Wales
- Etchings: Lake Paddock
- Quartz
- Station track
- Refugium
- Leopard Tree Ridge
- The bight
- Wingham Brush
- Homestead Creek
- Brushy cutting
- Glenthorne
- Croki
- Gilwarra.
- Notes:
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- Limited edition of twelve copies, signed by both the author and artist.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 1/12, signed by the artist.
- Typeset in Centaur, type cast on a Ludlow Typograph machine manufactured circa 1960, proofed on a Vertical Miehle, c. 1960, printed letterpress on a Wharfedale Press c. 1880, printed on Velin BFK Rives 270gsm paper, printed at the Penrith Museum of Printing, Sydney.--Added title page verso.
- Binding:
- Cloth bound in burnt orange with black landscape sketch. Handcoloured endpapers. Binding by Barbara Schmelzer.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Twelve etchings
- Twelve poems, twelve etchings
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1905
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1880
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