Simon Cutts: eclogues

Hardcover | 12.5 x 0.5 x 17.5 cm | 12 pp

Coracle | 2004

Numbered edition of 300

Letterpress printed, stitched binding and double gate-fold pages.

This exquisitely produced little book contains brief sentences that seem to describe the process of opening and closing the book and its fold-out pages.

The vocabulary and physical properties of book making are in dialogue with the traditional poetic form of the eclogue: a pastoral poem which is often a conversation between two shepherds. The book pivots on the words gate and gatefold, and points both to Virgil and to Cutt’s’ contemporaries - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas A Clark - in a series of intertextualising notes.