Haiku Na Feirme

John Fitzgerald

2024

With visual interventions by Jamie Murphy.

 

Dublin. Salvage Press. 2021.

185 x 275 x 18 mm

Private collection

Full green goatskin from with inlays of rust, calfskin, platinum, graphite, peat, lichen, goatskin, gold, craquele. Suminagashi endpapers by Sarah Amatt.

These delicious haikus celebrate rural life through the seasons something very dear to my heart, borderline obsession. They read right to left, top to bottom, winter through spring, summer and autumn and then repeated on the back board.