THREE ZINES, 2011
1/ Gracia Haby
Looking and almost never finding
June, 2011
Digital print zine
Edition of 60
A 10.5cm X 15cm, colour (inside) and B&W (cover) zine with a five page concertina insert and pale grey card cover. The binding mirroring that of a souvenir postcard foldout booklet, this zine features original postcard collages, and it was created especially for the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011.
For those of you who felt the pull of the familiar, the title of this zine is drawn from a line in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea:
He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought, The birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Collage on postcard, 2011
Titles of works as they appear in the zine:
So full the sky (cover)
Easily detectable, we’d thought
A fluttering of wings
Looking up at the moon above
In magical stillness
With a certain sense of security, the swamp wallaby paused and took in his new surrounds
2/ Gracia Haby
It was quite a wilderness
June, 2011
Digital print zine
Edition of 60
A 10.5cm X 15cm, colour (inside) and B&W (cover) zine with a five page concertina insert and peppermint green card cover. The binding mirroring that of a souvenir postcard foldout booklet, this zine features original postcard collages, and it was one of four new zines created especially for the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011.
For those of you who felt the tug of the familiar, the title of this zine is drawn from a line in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
...I strolled into the garden and strolled all over it. It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan.
Collage on postcard, 2011
Titles of works as they appear:
Unseen (cover)
For how long it would last, neither knew
The volcano rabbit was suitably wary of place names
All became clear by moonlight
A fortunate leap
Holding steady
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3/ Gracia Haby
That in the moon did glitter
June, 2011
Digital print zine
Edition of 60
A 10.5cm X 15cm, colour (inside) and B&W (cover) zine with a five page concertina insert and lilac card cover. The binding mirroring that of a souvenir postcard foldout booklet, this zine features original postcard collages. It is one of four new zines created especially for the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011.
For those of you who feel the pull of the familiar, the title of this zine is drawn from a line in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, (part III).
All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fixed on me their stony eyes,
That in the Moon did glitter.
Collage on postcard, 2011
Titles of works as they appear:
Reeled back (cover)
No one but you and me
Unseen fugitives
The stick nest rat turned her back on the rough seas
Running home without stopping
An opportunity not lost on me
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