26 lettered copies

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16 pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 6.75”/170mm wide, 9.5”/240mm tall. Acid-free papers. Hand stitched, single section, card card cover embossed by hand; endpapers tbc; colour title page.

Two poems from 1974, reflecting on the death of Mr Scrimgeour's friend William Wantling (1933-74). With a short afterword by the poet, written especially for this publication. Also a reproduction of a previously unpublished photograph by Ruthie Wantling from 1972.

Also mini-broadisde of Ruthie's poem 'Victim' (1966) laid in.

Signed by the poet

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50 Numbered copies

£15 plus international shipping

16 pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 6.75”/170mm wide, 9.5”/240mm tall. Acid-free papers. Hand stitched, single section, card card cover embossed by hand; endpapers; colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-917085-28-1

Two poems from 1974, reflecting on the death of Mr Scrimgeour's friend William Wantling (1933-74). With a short afterword by the poet, written especially for this publication. Also a reproduction of a previously unpublished photograph by Ruthie Wantling from 1972.

READY TO SHIP IN TWO WEEKS

Forthcoming . . .

Dr James R. Scrimgeour received his BA from Clark University, his MA and PhD from UMass, Amherst, and he is Professor Emeritus at Western Connecticut State University. He has published twelve books of poetry and over 250 poems in anthologies and periodicals. His latest book of new and collected work is As Only True Can Be (Only Human Press, 2024). Another recent book, Voices of Dogtown: Poems Arising Out of a Ghost Town Landscape (Loom Press, 2019), was listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Jim was invited to participate in NEH Seminars on Modern Poetry at NYU and Princeton, and ‘The Route,’ the title poem of one of his earlier books, was reprinted as a chapbook by Derby Wharf Light Box in 2021. Furthermore, he has published a critical biography of Sean O’Casey (G. K. Hall) along with numerous reviews and articles on poetry and drama. He currently resides in West Hartford Connecticut with his wife, Christine Xanthakos Scrimgeour.