The Girl from the Sea

by George Mackay Brown images by Michael Onken A Play for voices by George Mackay Brown Eighteen years ago we celebrated the seventieth birthday of George Mackay Brown by publishing In the Margins of a Shakespeare. It has long been out of print – but we are now able,...

Secret Commonwealth

by Robert Kirk images by Angela Lemaire or A Treatyse displayeing the Chiefe Curiosities as they are in Use among the diverse of the People of Scotland to this Day by Mr Robert Kirk, Minister at Aberfoill 1691 Stare into a pool -- the wind ruffles its surface, a cloud...

Where Many Shipwrack

by John Donne images by Robert Macdonald a selection of early poems by John Donne with woodcut images by Robert Macdonald The poems are taken from Songs and Sonnets and Elegies, the earliest writings of John Donne (1572-1631). This love poetry is intense, rhetorical...

Philip Sutton RA, his family & his friends

by Philip Sutton images by Philip Sutton Woodcuts by Philip Sutton 1950s-1970s Philip Sutton RA is probably best known for large and highly coloured paintings of landscape, flowers and people. Since he was at the Slade in the 1950s, however, he has been fascinated by...

White Voices (La Croisade des Enfants)

by Marcel Schwob images by Keith Bayliss There will be few people who do not feel in some way moved, emotionally involved even, when mention is made of The Children's Crusade. Keith Bayliss has made large woodcut images of the children in progress through the book --...