Alex Priestley’s ‘Dérive’ is a wandering book-length prose poem sequence, drawing the reader through series of spaces, repetitions, and musings in an imagined city. Priestley builds the prose line like a gathering of clouds caught at the edges of Spring, offering his poems with a force as gentle and chaotic as hills forming.
‘Dérive’ is printed letterpress on an Adana 8×5 in a limited edition of 50 copies, of which 5 are case bound, on Somerset Book White 115gsm and Hahnemuhle Bugra Butten 130gsm covers. It is stitched in a unique two section binding of 24 pages, and includes an ephemera ending to the second poem in the sequence.
Alex Priestley’s ‘Dérive’ is a wandering book-length prose poem sequence, drawing the reader through series of spaces, repetitions, and musings in an imagined city. Priestley builds the prose line like a gathering of clouds caught at the edges of Spring, offering his poems with a force as gentle and chaotic as hills forming.
‘Dérive’ is printed letterpress on an Adana 8×5 in a limited edition of 50 copies, of which 5 are case bound, on Somerset Book White 115gsm and Hahnemuhle Bugra Butten 130gsm covers. It is stitched in a unique two section binding of 24 pages, and includes an ephemera ending to the second poem in the sequence.