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.