The Poets Collection Of 3 Limited Edition Letterpress Prints.

Product Description

This beautiful new collection of limited edition letterpress prints from Wasted & Wounded celebrates three of the most original & celebrated 'poets' of the music world, namely Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith & Nick Drake. Each of these artists have produced a body of work that reveals a unique & individual voice that sets them apart from the vast majority of songwriters. These are the kind of artists that lead where others follow, those who inspire their contemporaries & the generations to come, the kind of artists that most others can only aspire to be. Perhaps no other musician blurs the lines between songwriter & poet more than Leonard Cohen. He of course began his creative life as a poet & famously turned to music as he believed it offered him better prospects for making a living than the life of a poet ever could. Thank God that he'd never heard of investment banking back in the 1960's. In honour of Leonard's eloquent artistry we have 'distilled' the lyrics of his debut album from 1968 ' The Songs Of Leonard Cohen' into a beautiful letterpress print using the exquisite Baskerville Old Face font & a gorgeous deep dark blue ink on a pure white 100% recycled heavyweight card stock. Patti Smith is a woman of many, many talents. Musician, artist, rock star, political activist, photographer, author…. all of these titles can justly be applied to Patti. It is perhaps as a poet though that Patti Smith herself would most like to be recognised. Her greatest artistic inspiration comes from the likes of Rimbaud & William Blake & indeed her life on stage actually began not in a b&, but as a performing poet at the famed Poetry Project at St Marks Church in New York in the early 1970's. For this collection, we have distilled the lyrics of Patti's debut album, ' Horses' into a striking letterpress print using the same condensed Helvetica font that appears on the album cover. The print is made on 100% recycled pure white heavyweight card stock using jet black ink. Nick Drake only made three albums in his short lifetime & sadly never lived long enough to know that his talents would become so widely recognised. The fact that he only made three records matters little when you realise that each one is an undisputed masterpiece. A lyricism & beauty flows through the lines of Drake's songs that places him not just as a great songsmith, but as one of the great poets of his age. This letterpress print takes as its inspiration the lyrics from Nick's magnificent debut album ' Five Leaves Left' to create an elegant & sophisticated piece of typographic art. The print is designed using the classic Perpetua font using a deep green ink echoing the colours of the album sleeve & is printed on 100% recycled pure white heavyweight card stock. The prints in the collection are limited to an edition of 200 & they are all totally unique, being individually number stamped, with each print in the set having matching numbers. In buying all three prints together you will be making a saving of almost 25% compared to buying them individually. Each design is printed using one of the last remaining vintage Heidelberg Cylinder Letterpresses, in Rye, East Sussex. The rich colour of the inks & the deep impression of the type into the paper are unique characteristics of this traditional process. The prints are A3 (approx. 12x 16) & will fit in any standard A3 size frame. Please note, the frames shown in the photographs are for display purposes only & are not included.