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The book as artefact is, for me, an important element of the pleasure of writing.
I enjoy the process of creating something tangible from my words together with images I have made myself, collaged or worked with in collaboration with others.
Over the last year or so, I have been developing my skills in making 'poem books' inspired by the beautiful artists' books that I've seen, learning the techniques for folding and cutting paper and binding pages.
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Supernature is a hand-made book that I've put together this month.
I was out in Pressmennan Woods in East Lothian with my camera, along with fellow writer, Lorraine, on a bright cold day when the autumn colours were at their most brilliant, before the fall a couple of weeks later. It was a joy to capture the vivid yellows reflected back in the loch below as we squelched in thick red mud.
The result is a small book that is designed to immerse you in the woods with a pause to ponder on the small poems: glance and glint.
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Glance
The surface I skim
throws its own reality back
in my face.
Glint
Vision quivers above.
Mud puddles
underfoot.