The Long Before (Special Edition) (Autumn Richardson)

Hyphae Series

 

Artist-made folder
16pp cahier-stitched pamphlet
Moss endpaper & verdant thread
Loose cover with embossed sigil
A6 ‘Nerodia sipedon’ print
Signed acquarello artwork print
Four ‘herpetology’ prints
Unique A6 poem card
Artist-made, numbered & signed
Edition of 14

 

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View photographs of this edition here.

This second instalment of the Correspondences Series, entitled ‘The Long Before’, continues the poet’s chthonic descent and return through acts of reclusion and immersion within wilderness environments, where spiritual and physical submission to elemental forces can precipitate a recovery from the injurious nature of human experience. 

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‘The Long Before’ dwells on time spent in Ontario, Canada, vividly conjuring encounters with the vibrant other-than-human life of its fields, woods and rivers. As Tim Liardet notes, the poem is ‘full of longing, anger and memory, moving from acute observations of the natural world to an equally intense and reflective interiority’. Over the course of its pages, the snake is seen as both predator and guide, the subject of both fear and awe, its ‘avidly seeking’ form a hermetic key to uncovering truths from ‘anterior lives’.​

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‘The Long Before’ is beautifully presented in our Hyphae Series of limited-edition artist-made, thread-sewn pamphlets produced in-house using the finest papers and materials. Each edition is numbered by the poet and bears the Correspondences sigil uniquely designed by Autumn herself.