The Hyphen is a Dagger

Butler, Angie; Fowler, SJ; Randle, Pat

Abstract

The Hyphen Is a Dagger collaborative publication: Angie Butler, SJFowler, Pat Randle published by Nomad Letterpress.

A distinctive, eccentric, playful work of literature, The Hyphen is a Dagger is a product of a unique collaborative project between printers and poets – Angie Butler, Pat Randle and SJ Fowler. This publication was made with the letterpress process as both constraint and guide, using wood-letter from the stores of the legendary Whittington Press in the heart of the Cotswolds. Working to vocabularies and sorts available to hand, the poems were written by Fowler to be then edited, whilst being set, across a series of collaborative on- press sessions over 2022 and 2023. The poems themselves relate to the place of their making, centring around the real-life crusader Sir Richard de Croupes, whose tomb adjoins the press at St Bartholomew’s Church. Guillaume, the hero of the story, was the first recorded troubadour. The typefaces are from a unique collection sourced from the Cambridge University Press and date back to the golden age of letterpress printing. Most were manufactured by the Delittle Foundry in York and each face contained within this project is identified in the margin of the page. This publication is an outstanding example of what is possible when writers and printers work together with simultaneous purpose; unlocking the creative potential of contemporary prose within the confines of letterpress printing.
60 numbered copies have been stitch-sewn & 20 marked I-XX case-bound by Roger Grech, 2023.

• Physical Artefact Type: Artefact
• Online Publication Date: Oct 10, 2023
• Publication Date: Oct 10, 2023
• Deposit Date: Nov 12, 2024
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13419428
• Additional Information: https://lbbonline.com/news/lovely-letters-the-best-typographic-moments-of-the-year
• External URL: https://www.nomadletterpress.com/guillaume