Nox

First edition, fifth printing.  A physically creative publication of an intimate and personal poem of loss, remembrance and bereavement.  192pp of concertinaed, fold out pages,  ‘book in a box’, illustrated with a profound mixture of collages, family photographs, letters and the author’s own translations of classical very. all housed in a bespoke clamshell box, described as ‘an elegy and a handmade artists’ book’.  The ‘book’ is in fine (pristine) condition, and the clamshell box is very good, with just a little gentle shelf wear on the extremal panels and a tiny scar on the paper inside the front cover.

Nox was inspired by the complicated death of Carson’s brother – a drifter who lived in exile, having fled his homeland to avoid prison. Heavily structured around the classical poem, Catullus’s Poem 101, it is an attempt to bridge the gap of time by common loss: Catullus too lost his brother.  Nox is as much an object of art as it is a poem.