small press series

The Book of Questions
Artist anthology of children’s questions collected by Alec Finlay
Published in: 2005
Published by: platform projects, Creative Patnerships, Morning Star
Edition of 2,700 copies
Extent: pb 64, col
Dimensions: 179mm by 120mm by 5mm
RRP: £10
ISBN:0954683137

Rosengarten
Artist collaboration by Janice Galloaway and Anne Beven
A collaboration between novelist and artist exploring the history and mythology of obstetrics. Poetry, plant-lore, short-prose, sculpture and photography combine to provide an oblique meditation on cultural and medical interventions into conception, contraception and childbirth.
Published in: 2005
Published by: Platform Projects, Hunterian Art Gallery
Edition of 1,500 copies
Extent: pb col 97
Dimensions: 179mm by 120mm by 7mm
RRP: £10
ISBN: 0954683102

Mesostic Herbarium
an anthology of mesostic poems
A phytological anthology by various amateurs of botany being a partial heterodox collection of mesostic poems on the names of flora arranged according to habitat.
Contains CD-Rom Wordwood.
Alec Finlay
Contributors: open to any writer, advertised by a participation postcard and website.
Copublished in 2004 by Morning Star, platform projects BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, PACE, Creative Partnerships
Edition of 4500 copies
96 pp, B/W, paperback
117mmx175mm x7mm
RRP £10

Verse Chain
Sharing Haiku & Renga
Alec Finlay
The classical Japanese art of renga is a thousand year old form of communal poetry, in which poets compose a chain of linked verses. This beginners guide to sharing haiku and renga contains all that you will need to organize your own event: guidelines for composing renga of varying degrees of difficulty, from a simple version that takes an hour, to a 36-verse renga that requires a day; and examples of contemporary renga
Published in: March 2003
Published by: Morning Star | BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Extent: pb, col 48 pages
ISBN: 1 904477 01 1
RRP: £10
Edition of 750 copies
Dimensions: 178mm by 119mm by 5mm
Designed by Colin Sackett
The classical Japanese art of renga is a thousand year old form of communal poetry, in which poets compose a chain of linked verses. This beginners guide to sharing haiku and renga contains all that you will need to organize your own event: guidelines for composing renga of varying degrees of difficulty, from a simple version that takes an hour, to a 36-verse renga that requires a day; and examples of contemporary renga.
With essays by Martin Lucas, Alec Finlay, Gerry Loose, Brian Tasker, Caitlin DeSilvey, and photographs by Nina Sverdvik and Dylan Matthew

Bynames
an anthology on invented bynames
conceived and edited by Epic Filley (Alec Finlay)
Contributors: open to any writer, advertised by a participation postcard and web site
Contents: This anthology includes a variety of ‘bynames’ for famous writers and artists, invented names, misspellings, and pseudonyms. The term ‘byname’ comes from the Scottish tinker gypsy's – it means a nickname that has been given to you, usually one that you are not aware of. The majority of the bynames in the book are invented names for famous writers and artists (see examples).
Published in: 2003
Published by: Platform Projects, Morning Star, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Extent: pb col 80 pages
ISBN: 1 904477 02 X
RRP: £10
Edition of 1,500 copies
Dimensions: 180mm by 120mm by 6mm

Wind Blown Cloud
Artist anthology of photographs collected by Alec Finlay
An anthology produced by the archive of wind blown clouds, featuring a selection of colour slides contributed between 2000 and 2003.
Published in: 2003
Published by: Morning Star, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Edition of 1,100 copies
Extent: pb col 56 pages
Dimensions: 179mm by 119mm by 5mm
RRP: £10
ISBN: 1 904477 03 8

Friday 8 May
Artist book by Alexander & Susan maris; 13 original photographs by Richard Demarco of Joseph Beuys in Scotland, with re-photogrpahs by the Maris
This long text or prose poem, and accompanying photographs, are a response to Joseph Beuys seminal first visit to Scotland in May 1970, and include a series of carefully composed recreations of Richard Demarco’s photographs of Beuys’ first ever journey to Rannoch Moor.
Published in: 2002
Published by: Platform Projects, morning star publications, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb col 64 pages
Dimensions: 119mm by 179mm by 5mm
RRP: £10
ISBN: 01904477046

Cowboy Story
Artist collaboration
Richard Tuttle, Heather Deedman, Zoe Irvine, Alec Finaly
Published in: 2002
Published by: Morning Star, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Edition of
Extent: pb col 28 pages
Dimensions: 179mm by 119mm by 4mm
RRP: £10
ISBN: 0952766930

Football Moon
A selection of football haiku and accompanying illustrations by the artist Alec Finlay
Published in: 2002
Published by: Morning Star, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Arts
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb col 28 pages
RRP: £10
ISBN: 095766940