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billy childish • colour blinds music deafens taste burns my throat and the poets massacre

Billy Childish - Colour Blinds Music Deafens - Tangerine Press
Billy Childish - Colour Blinds Music Deafens - Tangerine Press
  • Two editions: 74 numbered and 26 lettered copies

With a new introduction by the poet.

A collection of 'new' unpublished poems from the 1980s, unearthed when Mr Childish was sorting material for the huge ICA, London solo retrospective earlier in 2010. Two of these poems were previewed in a Billy Childish e.p. in Dwang issue two. Also included are a number of poems taken from very rare, early and out-of-print pamphlets and books. Both editions contain a section of photographs of the original handwritten first drafts of six poems from the early 1980s.

AVAILABLE IN TWO EDITIONS:

Numbered/signed £**

Lettered/signed £**

More detailed information here:

74 Numbered/signed copies

£30 plus shipping

120 pages. Format, approx 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered heavy duty acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; front cover artwork embossed in black; multi-coloured title page. Text set in Monotype Garamond. ISBN: 978-0-9553402-7-7

Fully bound in plum purple cloth; 3-page ‘stepped’ Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers — the page colours being billiards green, turquoise and poppy red; Canson Mi-Tientes billiards green back endpapers; Fabriano Bio Prima off-white archival quality, acid-free text paper. Signed with gallows symbol in green ink.

Signed by the author.

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26 Lettered/signed copies

£*** plus shipping

120 pages. Format, approx 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered heavy duty acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; front cover artwork embossed in black; multi-coloured title page. Text set in Monotype Garamond. ISBN: 978-0-9553402-7-7

Quarter bound in Japanese Moriki Kozo purple paper covered boards, with plum purple cloth spine; 3-page ‘stepped’ Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers — the page colours being billiards green, turquoise and poppy red; Canson Mi-Tientes billiards green back endpapers; Heritage book white archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper. Signed with gallows symbol in purple ink. All lettered copies include a bound-in original woodcut print by Billy Childish, produced especially for this edition.

Signed by the author.

SOLD OUT

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Over the last 35 years, Billy Childish has gained a cult status worldwide. In addition to writing and publishing over 40 volumes of confessional poetry and 6 novels, he has recorded over 150 LPs and produced many hundreds of woodcuts and paintings. In 2010, he was the subject of major concurrent retrospectives at the ICA in London and White Columns in New York, curated by Matthew Higgs and Richard Birkett. Mr Childish continues to show his work internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in New York, London and Berlin.

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