tooting's tangerine press presents
Dwang Issue 1
outsider poetry : prose : graphics
in handbound limited editions
Previously unpublished poetry, prose, graphics.
Published May 2009.
Features new writing and graphics from up to fifty
contributors: Dan Fante, Douglas Blazek, Billy Childish, Edward
Lucie-Smith, John Hartley Williams, Charles Plymell, Salena Godden, Wes
Magee, David Barker, Hugh Fox, Alan Dent, Ian Seed, Steve Richmond,
Gerald Locklin, Jim Burns, Idris Caffrey, Peter Finch, Geoff
Hattersley, Fred Voss, Tim Wells, Laurel Ann Bogen, K.M. Dersley, Mike
Daily, Adrian Manning, Rob Plath, K.V. Skene, Christopher Twigg, Barry
Southam, Lindsay Smith, Kirsty Irving, Dileep Bagnall, A.D. Winans,
Tony O'Neill, Trevor Reeves, Ben Myers, Adelle Stripe, Simon Kovesi,
Whitney Woolf, Stuart Crutchfield, Richard Lopez, Jonathan Hayes.
Graphics from Yasmin Ramli, Phil Corbett and Hannah Battershell.
Photography by Jonny Illingworth. Includes a never before published
Wantling poem.
ISBN: 978-0-9553402-3-9
This issue is dedicated to the memory of William Wantling.
Numbered/Lettered copies: 106
pages. Large format, approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handbound
in boards at the Tangerine Press workshop, using acid-free papers and
boards, conservation glue, hemp cord; Colorado Plate Mid Grey cloth;
distinctive Tangerine logo stamped onto the front cover in black ink;
3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page
colours being Rust, Poppy Red and Royal Blue; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes
Rust back endpapers; 85gsm Off-White Fabriano Bio Prima archival
quality acid-free text paper. Two full colour images are printed on
118gsm White Mohawk Superfine paper. Published in an edition of 100
numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. Body text set in Baskerville
Old Face--three other classic fonts are used throughout the journal.
Lettered copies have been signed by Douglas Blazek.
This first issue of Dwang,
dedicated as it is to Wantling, is particularly special as it contains
new work from Douglas Blazek and Steve Richmond, both important figures
in the US small press who had regular contact with Wantling during the
1960s.
The following are exclusive to Dwang:
Full colour reproduction of an image by Bristol-based artist and animator Yasmin Ramli on 118gsm White Mohawk Superfine
paper. Yasmin's most recent project was an animated sequence for the BBC.
Full
colour reproduction of a photograph by Jonny Illingworth on 118gsm
White Mohawk Superfine paper. Jonny has a joint exhibition coming up
this June at the Viewfinder Gallery, Greenwich. S.E. London.
Phil Corbett's Hex Directory b&w comic strip, complete with prequel. Phil's most recent exhibition was Erotic Terrors of the Deep: Paintings and Prints from the Brain of Phil Corbett at the Bodhi Gallery in London's Brick Lane. Think cute, funny, dark, disturbing...
Unique
'Dwang readers' created by Hannah Battershell. Hannah is a self-taught
artist who's distinctive images have most recently appeared in the
so-hip-it-hurts Naked Punch.
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