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Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle Press,, 2016.. Unstated. 6 x 5.25"; 44 pages. Digitally printed. Casebound paper over boards. Inset title label. Afterword: "The 'X' Mas Files is a random cross-section of extracts from the postcards, folding cards, and notes received from Stephen Duncalf during the period 1994 - 1999. Its title is not only an overt pun on the existence of the eponymous movie in dubious taste, but also descriptive of the annual cards and ephemeral offerings that printer-poets, artists and writers sent to each other around this time. These were sent by post, and firmly endorsed the mailing system that has so much part of the life of the time. "So much so, that the exchange here included two items despatched on floor-covering linoleum, that of the cover paper of this book, and also one isolated in the centre. "But taken overall, and from different times of the year besides that of supposed celebration, these jottings reveal the searching… Read More

Sherman Oaks, California:: Ninja Press,, 2002.. Edition of 135. 5 x 5", 38 pages. The book was designed, printed and bound by Campbell. Printed letterpress in four colors, the text paper is Japanese hangashi, the poems are augmented by three cyanotypes, a 19th century photographic process which are sensitized by hand and printed on Velke Losiny paper by the photographer Carolee Campbell. The accordion style binding uses a luminous golden past paper, hand painted by Claire Maziarczyk. Together these elements create the impression of a silken coverlet under which the poem lies. This is a collection of poems written on the occasion of the poet's 25th wedding anniversary and offered as a gift to his wife.