Drever laura (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Winner of the National Library of Scotland's Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2012. A serene conjunction of drawings in monochrome by Lesley Drever, illustrator earlier for Alistair Peebles's Brae Editions of Harry Gilonis's Reading Hölderlin on Orkney (2010), and words by Lesley Harrison, author of One Bird Flying: poems from the Great Road (Mariscat Press, 2009). "Beautifully uplifting - a perfect union of line and land, words and flight" (Kathleen Jamie, back-cover puff). Harrison observed her birds from the Orkney island of Eday: "gannet // four o clock. / floating / paper thin above the / drop"; "heron // it is the shadow of itself; / it is its shadow. / first the shadow, then the bird"; "sandpiper // vagrant. /an attitude of birds / over water, skimming waves" . . .…

8vo. pp [4]. Original publisher's illustrated pale blue covers, lettered black on the front cover. A5 cover with folded A3 sheet tipped in. Drawings by Laura Drever. ISBN: 1907508023 Very good plus. Drever, Laura (illustrator).