Art is a Small Adjustment
Ross Hair, curator of this year’s special exhibition ‘Avant-Folk – Publishing in the Vernacular’ explains the choice of image for this year’s Small Publishers Fair card. The image on this year’s card...
View ArticleThe Keartons: Inventing nature photography
John Bevis on how he came to write his book ‘The Keartons: Inventing nature photography’. In the early 1980s, I was working on two projects with Colin Sackett: as part of Simon Cutts’s Coracle Press,...
View ArticleLaurie Clark: Harebells
The image on the 2018 Small Publishers Fair card showed a view from Sollas, North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Artist and publisher, Laurie Clark – subject of that year’s special exhibition – worked...
View ArticleHelen Mitchell – The Small Publishers Fair
In September 2013 Simon Cutts of Coracle Press wrote a blog for the first ever Small Publishers Fair website. It was launched, a year after the original organising body RGAP was wound down, and as the...
View ArticleMeetings with Book Friends, Sarah Bodman and Angie Butler
We have dearly missed the exuberant and stimulating atmosphere of the Small Publisher’s Fair – the publishers, readings, book launches exhibitions and the new books. However, like many of you, we have...
View ArticleThe Penteract Podcast, Anthony Etherin
Penteract Press is the Shropshire-based imprint of poet Anthony Etherin and illustrator and designer Clara Daneri. Here Anthony writes about his work on The Penteract Podcast. Begun before lockdown...
View ArticleJohn McDowall on AMBruno
AMBruno is an open alliance of artists with a shared interest in the book as medium in art practice. Sophie Loss oversees the initiative. Each year a call is issued for proposals for books made to a...
View ArticlebookRoom – digital downloads
bookRoom is the post-digital research platform, artist book press and publisher based at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. It is run by the artist and composer Emmanuelle Waeckerlé....
View ArticleOn Independent Publishing, Charles Boyle
Charles Boyle is a writer, editor and publisher. He founded CB Editions in 2007 and has published some seventy books. The first three poetry collections published by CBe all won the Aldeburgh First...
View ArticleRemembering Alastair Brotchie
A talk given by Malcolm Green at Alastair Brotchie’s Funeral, 20 February 2023 Foreword Alastair Brotchie was founding editor of Atlas Press (1983 to 2023). This personal and totally ‘Atlas’ speech,...
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