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Altered Books

Take an existing book and adapt it using cut-up, collage and mark-making techniques to create completely new structures and texts. For inspiration, you'll examine a selection of altered books made by artists and writers including Tom Phillips his Humument, and Jonathan Safran Foer; and you'll discuss poetry beyond the text including visual elements, invisible elements and the role of chance in writing. Come prepared to think in three dimensions, and forget all you were ever taught about not scribbling in books. All materials, including books and stationery, will be provided. However, if there is a book you would especially like to work with, bring it along. Likewise your favourite set of pens and pencils - the more the merrier. In association with Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair.

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Nancy Campbell

Nancy Campbell is a poet and printmaker. She apprenticed as a letterpress printer and bookbinder with master craftsmen in New York and the Canadian Rockies. She has worked in printmaking studios, represented artists’ books for the antiquarian book trade and produced critical writing on the genre. Nancy has published several solo and collaborative book projects including Boat Trip (2007), After Light (2009) and Dinner and a Rose (2010). Her works are held in many international collections.

Nancy is currently working on How to say ‘I love you’ in Greenlandic. This portfolio of prints and poems was begun during a residency at Upernavik Museum in the Arctic last winter, funded by Arts Council England.

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