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Exhibition: Off the Rails, Wivenhoe
Dunlin Press has created an exhibition of artworks that are currently on view at the train station in Wivenhoe, Essex. The project is part of the town’s ongoing Off the Rail project, which sees a continuing series of artworks being displayed at the station. Railways have often featured in Dunlin Press’s books and, of course,…
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Writing from East Anglia: the box set
Take a closer look at our Tales from the East box set, which celebrates writing from East Anglia. Since the launch of our first book, Est, Collected Reports from East Anglia, in 2015, Dunlin Press has been a champion of writing from East Anglia. Our commitment to publishing fresh and original writing from the region has continued…
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New book! Lessons for an Apprentice Eel Catcher
Dunlin Press are delighted to launch Alex Toms’ debut poetry collection, Lessons for an Apprentice Eel Catcher, at The Wivenhoe Bookshop on Thursday 11th October 2018. In this stunning, otherworldly collection of poetry, Alex Toms introduces us to a troupe of curious characters to explore themes of love, womanhood and sex. At the centre of…
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The Orphaned Spaces: Still Lives
Our latest book, The Orphaned Spaces, collates a number of different styles of photography and illustration, in different sections detailing the flora and fauna discovered on real areas of edgeland, brownfield sites and waste ground. Still Lives is one such section. Yarrow, ragwort, plantain, mallow… these are the plants we often overlook, but do much…
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The Orphaned Spaces Box Set
The Orphaned Spaces box set is one of those wonderful examples of how a very basic idea can grow into a full-blown all-consuming project. Our original idea for The Orphaned Spaces was to have a plain paper bag containing fragments of writing, the odd drawing and some landscape photography, all loosely themed around ‘waste ground’.…
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The Orphaned Spaces: A look at the book
The books have been delivered to DP Towers for The Orphaned Spaces, which launched on 27th August. Taking the form of an A5, 148-page book and/or made-to-order box set, The Orphaned Spaces is an illustrated exploration of overlooked areas of natural beauty – edgelands, ex-industrial, derelict and brownfield sites, and the sometimes rare flora and fauna that…
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New book: The Orphaned Spaces
Our beautiful new book, published in August, is The Orphaned Spaces. The book is the latest in a loosely themed series from Dunlin Press that continues our interest in place, time and nature. It is available for pre-order now. The book is a collaboration between Dunlin Press founders, poet MW Bewick and artist Ella Johnston. It is…
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The Orphaned Spaces – handmade books
Last week we previewed some black and white sketch imagery for our new project The Orphaned Spaces. Here’s a look at how we’ve put together some of our handmade books for the limited edition box set. The first film features our book containing detailed black and white fine line studies of wild flowers, plants and…
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Coming soon…. The Orphaned Spaces
The Orphaned Spaces; a new release from Dunlin Press. The Orphaned Spaces is the culmination of a multimedia collaboration between Dunlin Press founders Martin Bewick and Ella Johnston. The project is centred on a rumination on life through the prism of liminal spaces – derelict land, brownfield sites – caught between moments of dilapidation and…
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Of time and landscape
Time is the prism through which we see landscape. We can, of course, try to fix landscape in our minds by writing it, photographing it or painting it, but it embodies uncertainties that will always undo our efforts. It’s unwieldy, it dislikes neatness, it unravels. Consider a photograph and this becomes clear: In a photograph…
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