PORTFOLIOS

CHRIS MANSELL

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You can have a giant anthology or even the legendary 'slim volume' of poetry but often, when the poetry is good, it's like having to eat all your chocolate eggs at once. Here are four poem portfolios (Aves, Verge, The Beekeeper's War, and 1One) published under the Well Sprung Productions imprint in limited editions, and thematically arranged. Here are some of the portfolios.

Each portfolio contains several items.

Aves contains Aves & Fishes, [five n twenty], The Secret Lives of Birds,which are individual poems presented in concertina folds all related to birds, though there is the pun on aves which is taken up in the first poem.

Verge contains the booklets Young Ulysses takes to the sea for the first time (a single poem), The Movement to Spring ('17 types of movement' and 'Winter to Spring'), The Question Arriving ('Arriving in Autumn', 'To the Question', 'The Quiet', and 'Stopping the night'). These poems all have something to do with movement and going and comin

The Beekeeper's War contains the booklets Some Wars ('Some Wars', 'The Fear'), Neda (a single poem), Obedience ('The General Becomes', 'The Beekeeper'). These poems deal with matters of war.[approx 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm]

The je suis suis generis packet contains 1One, je suis sui generis, who here i am i am, 1one 2two 16sixteen and all, in one way or another, think of selfhood.