So Many Boys All Doing Right
An essay by SEAN HOWARD
2017 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0005
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]
¶ Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley died on October 13, 1915, shot by a sniper while preparing to lead his men ‘over the top’ at the Battle of Loos in France. Aged only 20, he left behind a small number of posthumously published poems and a larger volume of remarkable letters, selected, introduced and edited by his parents. In this book, poet and essayist Sean Howard pays tribute to a writer esteemed by Robert Graves as ‘one of the three poets of importance’ along with Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg ‘killed during the war.’ Dyan Hatanaka cut the illustration in linoleum.
Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Trump Mediäval and Ludlow Tempo Light. Printed in black and tan on Mohawk Superfine paper, folded and trimmed to 15 × 25 cm making 36 pages. Gathered as a single folio signature. Includes a three-colour Linocut by Dyan Hatanaka. Edition of 150 copies bound in a tan paper cover and enfolded by a tan Saint-Armand Old Masters handmade paper jacket printed in three colours.
36 pages
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies
CND $75 + shipping & taxes