Larkspur and Lad’s Love; Edited by Clare MacCulloch | Lino-cuts by G. Brender à Brandis
Carlisle, Ontario: Brandstead Press, [1977]. Quarto, 27.1 x 20.7 cm. Cased in full Indonesian Batik cotton over boards. The Batik repeats a semi-figurative motif in red, olive, cream, and black on a purple background. Brown Fabriano endpapers. All edges opened but untrimmed. Housed in a brown cloth covered slipcase. Unpaginated [ll. 36; including the first two and last two blanks; these match the text-block leaves but are not integral]. Occasional spots along the page edges and minor wear to the slipcase. Else, a fine copy. The text was set in Della Robbia and Kennerley Old Style and printed on handmade J. Barcham Green Hayle paper. Poems by Will Aitken, Albert Collignon, Michael Illingworth, Graham Jackson, E.A. Lacey, Clare MacCulloch, Merv Thomson, Chris Wilson, Ian Young, and Clovis Zanetti. The poems are accompanied by 19 linocuts by Gerard Brender à Brandis. Most of the linocuts were printed in brown; a few vignettes were printed in black. Each was printed from the block and 5 are full-page. From an edition of 150 copies, this being number 42. Item #343
“The poems which we gleaned were ones which seemed to be meditative, with an inherent gentlemanliness, a softness, a compassion, in them with the lover as thinker, as confessor, as refuge. These are not poems out of the devastating, self-destructive stereotype nor are they flippant, cheap nor hormonal. They do not have those large, unhealthy and easily defined perimeters in fantasy. These poems are post revolution, post-adolescent and beyond the pornographic. They come from the still, oft-lonely vortex of a seasoned storm. […]
Here poetry attempts to contradict sentimentality; it is the first step (albeit a cautious one) out of a ghetto and traditions, into a community of affirmation…” — Clare MacCulloch, from the Foreword.
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