Books

In 2022 we published for the song that you begin, poems from the 1990s.

In 2021 we published past the stage of speaking, a selection of spoken-word poems.

Sample

The books contain poems from the 1990s, written to be read aloud…

About

This seemed an oppotunity to see what printing and publishing required.

Printers

We choose Inky Little Fingers to print the books because they provided so many excellent guides to the process.

Formating

We used LaTeX to typeset the PDFs as that allowed control over the output.

For LaTeX we used texpad as the main formatting tool, with TeXshop for XeTeX extensions. Then we learnt Memoir.

Writing

The poems were written in the 1990s, but needed revision and formatting into a book. I cut down the verse until I had around 140 pages.

Editing & Proofreading

That editing is needed was understood, but dull to do. Then, when the words were right, the text positioning had to be set - sometimes I then changed the words to fit the space.

Size

How big should books be? At first the book was printed as a A5, but this never felt quite so right, so was changed to a demy size.

Cover

I made the cover from some treated photos and compiled it using Sketch.

E-Book

The e-book was compiled using Apple Pages. Then saved to ePub.

Registration

Getting a bar code and regesterting things had to be done, so was.