12" x 9" in printed slipcase.
62 pages of letterpress gained from Albertus type, found lino blocks, and handmade zinc blocks.
Many printings including metallic dusting and handwork.
Limited Edition.
Hardcover.
Minimal shelf wear to slipcase, Book is tight, bright, and as new.
Quarterbound, black cloth spine, printed paper boards, non-square boards and square textblock; slipcase matches boards.
Number 11 of limited edition of 80.
Signed by the artist.
"'Tilt: the black-flagged streets', housed in its crooked slipcase, provokes unease.
Using mounting blocks to represent both paving flags and the anarchist emblem, Campbell structures the left-hand pages as he adds.
line by line, to his ' Storm Song' which moves through the book.
The figure of Shiva, mysterious God from Indian mythology, changes as the verse unwinds and the balance of force alters.
The poem begins with undertones of mob unrest but the song Is taken up by the halcyon (kingfisher) fabled to nest on the sea and to have the power to quiet its turbulence.
" Cathy Courtney, Art Monthly, November 1988