Sunday, April 21, 2013

Simon Cutts | A History of the Airfields of Lincolnshire





Simon Cutts
A History of the Airfields of Lincolnshire 
Norfolk, UK: Coracle Press, 1990
32 pp., 18 x 11 cm., paperback
Edition of 100

The text consists entirely of the word "poppies" repeated in a single horizontal line at the foot of each page. 









Simon Cutts
A History of the Airfields of Lincolnshire II
Tipperary, Ireland: Coracle Press, 2000
32 pp.,  17.5 x 11.5 cm., paperback
Edition 300 unsigned and unnumbered copies. 

A sky blue covers and typed green flax fields of Lincolnshire.


These books are an attempt by Cutts to use the vehicle of the book itself as the metaphor for the poem and the situation it describes or equivalences.


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