you're so pretty
when you're
unfaithful
to me
poems David Howard images Peter Ransom
David Howard is the only
writer to have served as pyrotechnics supervisor for Metallica, Janet Jackson
and the All Blacks, to have been formally acknowledged by the author of the
Oxford monograph John Locke & Natural Philosophy, and to have
spent thirty-five years compiling one book: The Incomplete Poems (Cold
Hub Press, 2011). He is also a winner of the Gordon & Gotch Poetry Award,
the NZ Poetry Society Competition, the NZSA Mid-Career Writers Award, and the
University of South Pacific Press Poetry Prize. David's collaboration with
Peter Ransom revisits punk Christchurch in the 1970s and 80s.
Peter Ransom (born in 1957)
grew up in Dannevirke. During the 1970s
he studied at University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts under Barry Cleavin
specializing in print making (lithographs, woodcuts and etchings) and pen
and wash drawings. Many of his images derive from classic literary texts by
Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Böll and Emile Zola. Barry Cleavin wrote of his work: ‘Webs of lines snare the
eye of the beholder… Invented space inhabited by objects remembered through an
impeccable but personally reconstructed reality. So far as the humans occupying
this linear world are concerned: they appear as clothed containers for fragile
or violent actions.’ Peter Ransom now lives in Japan.
The text and cover of you're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me are
letterpress printed on a Littlejohn cylinder press. The poems are set in
12pt Linotype Janson with titles in Helvetica bold condensed by Longley
Printing Co Ltd. The title page and cover title is handset in 36pt Mistral
script. Images are digitally printed by GTO printers. Paper is 104 gsm Sundance
felt natural white. Designed and printed by Tara McLeod. Edition of 75,
numbered and signed. Price till end of September $190,
thereafter $240.
you’re so pretty when you’re unfaithful to me will be launched at the Going
West Books & Writers Festival, 5pm Sunday 16 September, Titirangi War
Memorial Hall, 500 South Titirangi Road. Speaker: Paula Green. All welcome.
Below are several images from the book.
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