Poetry of Unknown Words
Susan Johanknecht & Katharine Meynell
21 folded sheets with 32 page notes & colophon booklet, housed in a bespoke Caribbean Peach 5mm acrylic slipcase 20.5 X 16.7 X 4.4cm. A feminizing response to Iliadz's Poésie de Mots Inconnus (1949) exploring notation, sound and text through transcription. Technologies used include: letterpress, inkjet, embossing, hand burnishing, collage, lino-cut, stitching, polymer plates & pochoir. London 2017, 20 numbered & signed copies, of which 10 are for sale to public institutions. £500.00
notes & colophon
Susan Johanknecht & Katharine Meynell
32 pages 20 X 17cm. Diary of process and guide to the Poetry of Unknown Words project, describing technologies used, libraries and archives visited. Two sections, printed offset litho at Aldgate Press & hand-sewn with red linen thread by SJ & KM. London 2017, 150 copies. £12.00
// calculation of average sunlight
Andrew Turner & Susan Johanknecht
14 page vertical concertina 10.5 x 15cm closed, unfolds to 73.7 x 15cm. Original computer code written by A.T. charting the yearly movement of light across a kitchen window, reworked as poetry by S.J. Letterpress printed with fluorescent orange inks onto poster paper, sky-blue one side, white on the other, can be read under UV light. Brown utility envelope with label & thread tie. London 2017, 40 copies. £15.00
Experiments on Light
Mary Somerville with SJ & KM
Single fold-out page 12 x 12cm, 12 x20 when open. Image of Somerville’s 1845 scientific notes on one side, digital photo with half-tone line screen of prism & needles in sunlight, by S.J. & K.M on the other. Ink jet printed on 200gsm fine art matt paper. London 2017, 10 copies. £10.00
unsettled Nature she, in the holy park of the West.
Susan Johanknecht
16 pages 18.5 x 23.5cm. Reworked 1903 family postcards of the American West letterpress printed from polymer plates on Arches Aquarelle. Hand-sewn booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Against nature' curated by Finlay Taylor. London 2014, 50 copies. £20.00
Volcano I-III.
Susan Johanknecht
3 unbound pages 15 x 21cm in a vellum paper envelope. Texts derived from descriptions of volcanic activity, written following the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland. Handset Caslon, printed letterpress in red onto grey-pink Parchmarque paper. 30 copies, £15.00
Bishopsgate Within. CITY A.M.
Susan Johanknecht
38 pages 28 x 21cm ink jet printed onto Zerkall paper, sewn into paste-paper covers, housed in a document folder. Text derived from research at the Baring Archive, photographs of bankers taken in 1903 with texts referencing account keepers duties and contemporary City of London architecture. London 2011, 75 copies. £20.00
Interim Corrode
Susan Johanknecht
28 unnumbered pages 23.5 x 19.5cm. Text derived from readings of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere journal, Wallace collection arms catalogues and New Scientist magazine. Handset Bembo italic printed letterpress with various rules and dingbats as imagery. Handsewn into blotting paper and brown Mineraux covers. London 2011, 75 copies, £15.00
Baring Antebellum
Susan Johanknecht
38 pages 28 x 21cm ink jet printed onto Zerkall paper, sewn into brown-marbled ledger covers, housed in a document folder. Text derived from research at the Baring Archive, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Marble Faun and Joshua Bates’ diary. Themes of finance, politics and the arts, personal and private. London, 2010. Remaining copies sold in a double document folder with Bishopsgate Within. CITY A.M. £40.00
Sub text localities
Susan Johanknecht
16 unnumbered french-folded pages 15.5 x 13cm. Text handset 24pt Gill Sans printed letterpress blind and in black on laid Ingres D’Arches paper with blind 24pt square dingbats. Handsewn and in a sleeve of gridded builders polyethelene. London 2007, 80 copies. £25.00
Cunning Chapters
curated by SJ and Katharine Meynell
142 pages 32 x 25cm a collaborative artists’ book with thirteen chapters coptic bound by Kelly Wellman into titled mill boards, with a linen slipcase. Artists and writers include: Stephen Bury, William Cobbing, Georgios Boudalis, Clippety Clop with Aaron Williamson, Electric Crinolines with Redell Olson and Drew Milne, Finlay Taylor, Sigrid Holmwood, Susan Johanknecht, Katharine Meynell, Kate Scrivener, Louisa Minkin. London 2007, 60 copies of which 20 copies are for sale. £250.00
Gefn Press Catalogue 1977-2007
essays by Redell Olsen, Katharine Meynell, SJ
48 pages 21.3 x 21cm black and white images throughout, hand-sewn into plastic covers. Published by the University of Vermont Libraries on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of the Gefn Press held at the Bailey/Howe Library in 2007,
£5.00
here are my instructions
curated & edited by Redell Olsen and SJ
96 numbered pages 21 x 15cm, black and white images throughout with colour cover. Printed in response to the ‘writing instructions / reading walls’ project installed January – May 2003 at the Poetry Society café in Covent Garden, London. Artists and writers include: Sally Alatalo, Åsa Andersson, Les Bicknell, Allen Fisher, Robert Hampson, Peter Jaeger, Sharon Kivland, Brigid Mc Leer, Gillian Wylde. Their contributions are accompanied by a poem sequence ‘we await your instructions nervously’ by Redell Olsen. 300 copies printed offset and perfect bound at Aldgate Press, London 2004, £5.00
subsequent drainage on folding rocks
Susan Johanknecht
17 unnumbered pages 13 x 13cm. Poems concerning sediment, surface and waste. Three double-page spread black & white images of disrupted geological diagrams. Booklet sewn and inserted into clear vinyl cover with pocket containing hypertext CD entitled ‘List of Illustrations’ a poem with internal links to 15 other poems, to be read on MAC or PC computers. London 2004, out of print
Modern (Laundry) Production
Susan Johanknecht
22 numbered pages 14 x 38cm. Twenty-two images developed from time and motion studies, text in 12pt Gill Sans and Gill Sans Italic, title in 18pt Gill Sans Bold Italic, printed offset litho in dark blue by Michael Taylor at Paupers Press, London. Sheets glued and accordion folded, housed in a brown card slipcase rubber stamped with the title in white ink. 150 copies co-published with Paupers Publications, London 2001, out of print
Volumes (of vulnerability)
curated by SJ and Katharine Meynell
23 artists’ books contained in a battered tin 28 x 18 x 12.5cm high. Artists include: Sophie Artemis, Caroline Bergvall, Penny Bernand & Stephen Williams, Stephen Bury, Helen Douglas, Cate Elwes, Joanna Hoffmann, Susan Johanknecht, Lilian Lijn, Lily Markiewicz, Katharine Meynell, Jim Mooney, Shariff Moossun/Alistair Skinner/Martin Ford/Ed Spencer, Hayley Newman, Colin Sackett, Gary Stevens, Ulrike Stoltz, David Thorne, Claire Van Vliet, Elaine Worth. London 2000, 160 copies, £250.00
Volumes (of vulnerability)
Catalogue
Fold-out catalogue with essay by Clive Phillpot and contributions by SJ, KM, and Colin Sackett, part-funded by the Arts Council of England, printed by Michael Taylor at the Paupers Press, London 2000. £5.00
Measuring & Sharpening
Susan Johanknecht
24 unnumbered pages 11.5 x 15cm. Nine relief prints printed in black. Handset 12pt Perpetua with 24pt title and italic colophon, letterpress printed in brown ink on Ryman’s pale green lined accountancy paper at Gefn Press. Sewn into grey punched-hole paper covers. 180 numbered copies published as part of the Volumes (of vulnerability) project.
The Transgenic Tale of Lily Goat Gruff
Susan Johanknecht
28 unnumbered pages 14 x 11cm. Two relief prints, an altered Bewick engraving reversed. Handset 18pt Caslon, 12pt Perpetua, 12pt Gill Sans Bold, 18pt Bembo, letterpress printed at Gefn Press on Zerkall paper. Title printed onto Tyvek by Claire Van Vliet and boards covered by Judi Conant, books sewn and glued into covers. London 2000, 120 copies, out of print
Visions in the Monitor
Susan Johanknecht
32 unnumbered pages 15.5 x 15cm. Handset 14pt Gill Sans letterpress printed by Claire Van Vliet on Mohawk Superfine paper. CD-ROM with three photo animation sequences housed in an internal Tyvek pocket, interaction programmed by Everal McKenzie, playable on Apple Mac computers. CD printed in blue-grey with Gill Sans title. Sewn book laced with Tyvek into polyethylene needlepoint canvas covers with a plastic curtain ring on the spine. Blue-grey corrugated card slipcase. Binding designed by Claire Van Vliet and executed by Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson and Lila Winstead at the Janus Press. 120 copies published as part of the Inside Cover millennium book project co-ordinated by Jonathan Ward and the University of the West of England, London 1999, £25.00
(Compound Frame) Seven Poems
by Emily Dickinson
20 unnumbered pages 19 x 26.5cm. Three woodcuts by SJ hand burnished on Kozo paper at the Gefn Press and three linocuts by SJ printed on UV Columns paper by CVV at the Janus Press. Text handset 12pt Berhold Walbaum letterpress printed by CVV. Kozo sheets stitched onto the pages with strips of Rowlux. Single leaves bound with Tyvek in a structure designed by Elizabeth Steiner for this book. Bee’s-eye clear Rowlux end sheets and polyethylene needlepoint canvas covers, housed in a ribbed plastic envelope. Co-published with the Janus Press, Vermont, 1998, 120 numbered copies, out of print.
Moments of Forces
Susan Johanknecht
20 unnumbered pages 13 x 15cm. Eight relief prints, text is handset 18pt Bembo Italic with 12pt titles, printed letterpress at the Gefn Press on French-folded graph paper. Sewn and bound in a clear ribbed plastic sleeve, relief prints inside and outside the front and back covers. London 1997, 180 numbered and signed copies, £15.00
(creep) of the structure concerned
Susan Johanknecht
28 unnumbered pages 13 x 15cm. Twelve double page diagrammatic images integrated with text, 12pt Gill Sans Bold with 18pt Gill Sans Bold Italic title. Xerox printed on 120gsm acid free paper. Sewn and bound in a clear ribbed plastic sleeve, images and text on front and back covers. London, 1997, 180 numbered and signed copies, £15.00
WHO WILL BE IT?
Susan Johanknecht
12 two-sided photo cards and 10 two-sided text cards 6 x 9cm. Text is handset 12 point Gill Sans letterpress printed on Khadi and Arches papers. Card/pages wrapped bronze metal organza and housed in tan metal-edged archival storage box with photograph glued on top, numbered and signed colophon card at the base.
London 1996, edition of 50. CD-ROM version with photo-animations and various voices speaking the text programmed by Everal McKenzie. Playable on Apple Mac, CD case with letterpress printed label and sheet of metal organza. Out of print
of science & desire
Susan Johanknecht
32 unnumbered pages 15.5 x 16.5cm. Seven relief prints and three decorations printed letterpress with handset 12pt Gill Sans text at Gefn Press. Occasional words set in Gill Sans Bold. Hand sewn and bound in fabric-backed black rubber cover. London 1995, 150 signed and numbered copies, out of print. CD-ROM version with relief prints animated and text whispered, interaction programmed by Everal McKenzie. Playable on Apple Mac, CD case with letterpress printed label. Out of print
Rock / Tissue / Crevice
Susan Johanknecht
16 unnumbered pages 32.5 x 23cm. Shaped pages of split boards with linen hinges, incised and painted with layers of acrylic. Housed in a three sectioned folder of split boards and linen hinges covered with South of the Thames plaster mixed with acrylic, the only text being stencilled Perpetua-style titles. London 1994, edition of 8 copies, all vary slightly, out of print
Crevice / Map
Susan Johanknecht & Jenifer Newson
Two sheets of laid Ingres D’Arches paper machine sewn and folded to become 30.5 x 17.5cm. Screen printed at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design by Shelley Rose. Concrete poem printed in maroon ink using various sizes of Garamond Bold italic and Garamond Bold modified into a slanted roman on one side. Text printed in violet on the other side with map image in red, handpainted using ochre and sienna concentrated water colours. Sewn into kraft-backed mull covers stencilled with title in sienna. Housed in a flymesh slipcase. London 1994, edition of 80 copies signed by SJ and JN, out of print.
Emissions
Katharine Meynell
20 unnumbered pages 22 x 15cm. Images and design by SJ and KM, transparent book of alternating archival plastic sleeves and sheets. Three screen print images, two translucent white and one red-brown. Five encapsulated plastic bags, hair, wire, wax, four photographic transparencies; sewn using hot needles, fishing line and linen threads. Text 12 point Times screen printed red-brown with colophon and 72pt Times Outline title on cover in white. Vellum strip binding designed by CVV and sewn at Gefn Press, with drafting film slipcase. Publication assisted by a grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain and the London Arts Board, this collaboration was part of the project Book Works: A Women’s Perspective. Distributed by Book Works, London 1992, 150 numbered copies signed by SJ and KM, out of print
Eat Book
Katharine Meynell
26 unnumbered pages, one a fold-out. 24.5 x 34cm. Nine linecuts by SJ and six duotone photographs by SJ and Katharine Meynell. Text hand lettered Bodoni-style by SJ, recipes handwritten by Alix Meynell. Rives BFK paper printed offset in brown and black at Expression, London and letterpress note as part of colophon in silver at Janus Press, Vermont. Linecuts printed letterpress at Book Works, London by SJ and silver fork printed by CVV on etching press at Janus Press. Binding of split boards covered with South of the Thames plaster mixed with acrylic and vellum spine, wrapped in linen napkin with linen tie. Bound by SJ at Gefn Press and Linda Wray at Janus Press. Co-published with Janus Press, Vermont & London 1990, 150 numbered copies signed by SJ and KM, £200.00
Jasper the Lion Heart
Julie O’Callaghan
13 page fold-out attached at front cover. 36 x 22.5cm. Three full-page intaglio collagraphs by SJ printed in bronze ink on an etching press at Gefn Press. Text is handset 30pt Caslon printed on an Albion by SJ and Graham Bignell at the New North Press, London. Somerset paper pages joined with gold paper strips and bound in Khadi covered boards at the Gefn Press. 50 copies signed by poet and artist. London 1990, out of print
Five Poems
Emily Dickinson
17 unnumbered pages, one a fold-out. 10.5 x 10.5cm. Seven hand-burnished relief prints by SJ on Kozo collaged onto Khadi pages, one hand coloured with gold paint. Poems handset in Plantin italic and printed damp by SJ at the Camberwell Press, Department of Graphic Arts, Camberwell School of Art. Bound in debossed Khadi covers at the Gefn Press. 50 numbered copies. London 1989, out of print
Mare Fecunditatis: Seas of the Moon
Katharine Meynell
42 unnumbered pages 26 x 28cm. Nine intaglio collagraphs by SJ. printed in green-black ink on an etching press at Gefn Press and seven screen prints printed in silver at the Central School of Art. Text is handset 24 point Perpetua with 60pt titling letterpress printed by SJ at the Camberwell Press, Department of Graphic Arts, Camberwell School of Art, text in black and colophon in silver. Crisbrook and Zenyu papers hand sewn to a cover of iridescent rumpled plastic sourced by Steven Johanknecht and sprayed-painted with grey by SJ. Housed in a denim slipcase made by CVV. 40 copies signed by poet and artist, London 1988, out of print
Sarah’s Sacrifice
Margaret Kaufman
24 unnumbered pages 13.5 x 13cm. Six relief prints by SJ, two are double-spreads. Text is handset Plantin printed damp on french-folded Tovil paper by SJ at the Camberwell Press, Department of Graphic Arts, Camberwell School of Art. Bound in limp vellum at the Gefn Press, tied at the foredge with linen cords. 45 copies signed by the poet, London 1988, out of print
Eve
Sandra McPherson
Accordion of Okawara paper folded vertically and then into six pages attached to a unique papier mache construction by SJ. Plastic curtain rings attached to the construction with vellum strips allow accordion to be hung to 78cm length. When folded, it is wrapped in black voile and enclosed in a box. Text is handset 12pt Times New Roman printed at the Janus Press by CVV, muslin-covered box made by Linda Wray, 14 x 25cm, with title set in Thoroughgood woodtype printed in silver on the spine. 50 copies signed by the poet, London 1987, out of print
Hermetic Waste
Paracelsus, Hildegard of Bingen, U.K. - Government Nuclear Waste Fact Sheet
32 unnumbered pages 23 x 32cm. Seven collagraphs by SJ. based on paper mache sculptures, intaglio printed with graphite ink at the Central School of Art, London and interleaved with polyethylene sheets. Handset Cheltenham woodtype, 18pt Times New Roman, 14pt Menhardt Unciala and 30pt Franklin Gothic printed damp on buff Arches at the Janus Press in silver ink. Sewn into a Barcham Green India Office paper cover with printed title on front, inserted into a sewn gridded builders plastic sleeve and housed in a ribbed plastic envelope. 40 copies signed by the artist, London 1986, out of print
Blook Book
Susan Johanknecht
12 unnumbered pages 23 x 32cm. Six intaglio collagraphs printed at the Central School of Art, London and six photographs with screenprinted collage elements by SJ. Images glued to boards painted matt and gloss white, bound with two metal rings through punched holes, having no proscribed beginning or ending. Edition of six copies, London 1985, out of print.
Well-Heeled
Julie O’Callaghan
7 numbered folios 38.5 x 26cm. Eight lithographs drawn on plates and printed by SJ at the Central School of Art, London. Text rubber-stamped and then transferred onto the lithographic plates. Page numbers rubber-stamped in red on the front of each Arches paper sheet. Wrapped in pink tissue and housed in purpose-made glossy white hinged shoebox, rubber-stamped with title on cover and spine. Edition of 30 copies signed by poet on the title page. London 1985, out of print.
Offset litho trade edition: 15 french-folded accordian pages 17 x 10 cm. Half size facsimile of the 1985 edition printed at The Stinehour Press, Vermont on Mohawk Superfine cover paper, £10.00
Fast Pass
Barbara Luck
26 unnumbered pages 14 x 21cm. Handset 10pt Trump Medieval text with 18pt Brush titling printed on Mohawk Superfine by SJ at the Janus Press. Screwpost binding with brushed aluminum spine and ‘nyrex’ plastic sleeves containing four unique collages by SJ. 150 copies signed by the poet, Vermont 1984, £25.00
Five Poems
Emily Dickinson
24 unnumbered pages 50.5 x 35.5cm. Four lithographs, 4 hand-burnished relief prints and three screenprints by SJ printed on Rives and Kozo papers at the Central School of Art, London. Letterpress text handset in 16 & 36pt Sabon Demi-bold printed on Barcham Green DeWint and collaged at the Janus Press. Sewn into linen spine and bound in uncovered boards, screenprint and an inset radio backboard on the cover designed by SJ and CVV at the Janus Press. 15 copies press-numbered and signed by the artist. London and Vermont 1984, out of print
Five Elements
Susan Johanknecht
5 fold-out accordions of seven pages contained in a box 24.5 x 18.5cm. 14 screenprints, 11 relief prints, 4 intaglio prints, and 2 lithographs printed on Rives paper by SJ at the Central School of Art, London. Pages joined with blue, brown, grey or gold paper strips and titled in 24pt Neuland, 4 line woodtype, 48pt Trump Mediaeval italic, 36pt Chisel expanded and 36pt Carolus. Five poems by SJ handset in 24pt Helvetica and letterpress printed at Janus Press. Red cloth-covered clam box with inset letterpress title page and colophon made by CVV at the Janus Press. Title printed on spine in silver. Edition of 12 signed copies, London and Vermont 1983, out of print
Pegasus Pete
Mollie Ames
20 unnumbered pages 26 x 15.5cm. Seven woodcuts by SJ printed in brown from the original blocks on Kozo Natural paper at the Janus Press. Text is handset 12pt Trump Mediaeval. Bound in elephant-hide paper over boards, title label on spine. 150 copies numbered and signed by artist and author. Christchurch, New Zealand 1980, out of print
Saltflower
Susan Johanknecht
16 unnumbered pages 17.5 x 12cm. Two wood engravings, one a double-page spread, by Susan Kronfeld printed in silver and black from the original blocks at the Janus Press. Text is handset 12pt Trump Mediaeval printed on Amatruda paper by SJ. Bound in black book cloth and silver tea-chest paper over boards, title label on spine. Edition of 75 numbered and signed by both artist and author. Vermont 1977, out of print
Notes to K.
Susan Johanknecht
8 unnumbered pages 24 x 13cm. Tipped-in photocopy image of Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka, text handset 12pt Trump Mediaeval printed on Mohawk Superfine by SJ at the Janus Press. Hand sewn into blue Fabriano endpapers and Strathmore covers with blind printed title on cover. Edition of 60 signed and numbered copies. Vermont 1977, out of print