art is like that wild hare
running running
running
in the
headlight beams
Travelling changes your world and the world changes
as you travel. Three Travels consists of three poetic
records - a bike ride into eastern Poland ("Narrow Roads to the
East"), a trip to the Highlands of Scotland ("Ancestral
Routes"), and a circumnavigation of the volcanic plateau of Te Ika a
Maui/the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand ("Coming Round the
Mountain").
The poetry that records these travels is loosely based on
Japanese poem sequences, strings of haiku or tanka (with
accompanying prose). But there is nothing rigidly "authentic" about
the use of such forms: Michele Leggott christened these so-called haiku,
"bike-ku," as they recall the mode of transport itself as much as the
poetic form.
Each sequence begins with a photo by Joanna Forsberg, and
the whole book is designed to slip easily into a pocket for comfortable companionship
as you travel.
Three
Travels is linotype set
in12pt Helvetica Condensed by Longley Printing Co. and letterpress printed by
Tara McLeod on a Littlejohn cylinder press. Images and cover are digitally
printed by GTO Printers. Paper is 104gsm Sundance natural white. Size: 160 x 108mm, 40pp.
Edition: 75 copies, signed.
Price: until
30 April: $120; from 1 May: $150.
Three
Travels will be
launched at the Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland, on Friday 27
April, 2012 at 5.30pm. The speaker will be Lisa Samuels.
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