Yes, I do believe at Sunday’s Page Parlour gathering of assorted zine makers, small publishers and twins cut from same cloth, I saw the entire Kaskad and Optix coloured paper range employed to good effect. Sheets of Sparrow Grey, Bullfinch Pink, Parakeet Green and Plover Purple folded to form A5 or cutdown to A6, all A4 paper economy and emitting the charm of things familiar. Covers fashioned from sheets of Vada Blonde, Zuli Blue and Zoda Lemon, those familiar hues I am well acquainted with.
This Tuesday evening I have four new zines to introduce you to. Uncloaked at Page Parlour (as part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival), many have already made way to new homes. Two new zines by me and two by Louise, this quartet of zines feature wooden tools and artefacts of gold displayed in pairs, opera masks from China, Australian birds in neat formation, and collective nouns explored. I’d have brought them to you sooner had I been able to squeeze extra drop from the week past.
Tweak, Tweaked, Tweet
Louise Jennison
A six page B&W concertina zine with string tie well-supplied with Grey Currawong and a Brown Cuckoo-dove and friends feathered.
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Just the two of us: A fine pair
Louise Jennison
An A3 foldout full-colour zine replete with elaborate post-mortuary ritual masks from Papua New Guinea and other forms paired.
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A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels
Gracia Haby
A catch of fish, a spring of seals, a ticktock of clocks, an anthology of stories, a prickle of hedgehogs and other collective nouns captured for you in a 52 page colour and B&W zine.
(Can you recognise a Skylark Violet cover with a Sparrow Grey spine?)
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A Single Thought
Gracia Haby
A 24 page colour and B&W zine full of the gathered thoughts of other souls throughout a single day.
(With a band of Robin Red running parallel to Curlew Cream... familiar paper stock, no?)
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The first five orders through our online store shall each receive a free copy of Louise's Tweak, Tweaked, Tweet.
In addition to these new zines you will find some of our older zines are now on sale.
To those we met on Sunday for first time face-to-face, it was mighty nice to see you.
