Poetry Books

The ISTD brief 'Not Just Fleurons' opened up the possibility of exploring the written and the spoken word. Lissitszky proposed in the 1930s that 'in communicating the written word is seen, not heard.'

The brief aims to make awareness of the past time that is garden keeping and the benefits of it. I propose to extend the concept to up-keep and preservation the English Landscape in general.

My research will narrow down the specific areas of landscape; perhaps trees & woodland, the diminishing hedgerow and large scale increase of housing developments.

Through poetry I can explore the interesting relation between the written and spoken word as well as the cultural concern that is the classic English landscape.

I sourced these two Poetry books that I sourced from my City Cathedral, one of Tennyson and the other a collected works of various more obscure poets; all written in response to the 1800-1900 English Landscape.

Through their formal design, synonymous with the traditional print era, and the content, the books are a powerful nostalgic and evocative piece of work. This is interesting and calls for further exploration of the relation between typography and emotional response and whether that is the driving concept behind a project using poetry as the vehicle.