The silences between
Subtitle: (Moeraki conversations)
By: Keri Hulme ; with prints by Claire Van Vliet
Contributors: Van Vliet, Claire, book artist; O'Rourke, Judith, printer; MacGregor, Katie, artist; Miller-Brown, C. Andrew, printer; Holden, Audrey, binder; Holden, Amber, binder; Sumberg, Jack, binder; Richardson, Mary (Bookbinder), binder; Janus Press; Papeterie St-Armand; J. Barcham Green, Ltd
Publisher: The Janus Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newark, Vermont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Poetry; In art; Maps; Pictorial works; Beaches; Fishing; Emotions; Autobiographical memory; New Zealand poetry; Artists' books; Specimens
Other titles: Moeraki conversations
Notes: Poems by Keri Hulme.

Limited edition of 120 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist.

An artist's book edition of Keri Hulme's "The silences between" by Claire Van Vliet. Consists of one main volume, an accompanying booklet, a drop-spine box, and a slipcase. The main volume has a non-adhesive binding with woven-together signatures of variously sized and colored papers. The text is letterpress printed. Some pages feature color or black-and-white digital reproductions of photographs, or circular paper cut-outs. Covers are folded paper, pulp painted. The final page features publication and edition information, as well as the signatures of the author and artist. The accompanying booklet consists of a single sewn signature in a sea foam green paper wrapper, along with a color reproduction of a photograph on a fold-out page attached inside the back cover. The booklet is titled "Maori glossary and colophon" and includes a glossary of Maori prepared by the author, which provides English definitions of Maori words and phrases used in the poems, and the colophon. Text is letterpress printed. The two volumes are issued in a drop-spine box, which consists of illustrated paper-covered boards, wood panels on three sides, and a map (24 x 24 cm) inset inside the lid. The bottom of the box is lined with handmade paper. The drop-spine box is protected by a black-paper-covered-boards slipcase with a letterpress-printed title label attached to the spine.

"The frontispiece is a vitreograph of a Moeraki Boulder by Claire Van Vliet made at the Littleton Studio in Spruce Pine North Carolina and printed intaglio by Judith O'Rourke on Stonehenge paper. The images in the text are original digital prints made by CVV in Photoshop and printed on Barcham Green Chatham Flaxen with an Epson SureColor P600 at the Janus Press in Newark Vermont. The paper for the book covers was pulp painted with Katie MacGregor. The map was clarified by David Higgins, scanned by Ellen Dorn Levitt, prepared by CVV in Photoshop and printed letterpress from polymer plates by Andrew Miller-Brown on calendared Barcham Green Sandwich. The text is Helvetica Neue and Plantin with Hammer Uncial titles printed from polymer plates by Andrew Miller-Brown at Janus Press on handmade papers: gold and denim black cover from the St. Armand Papeterie Montreal Canada; and Boxley, Cambersand, DeWint, Charles I, Finale, Hayle, Sandwich and Cairo from Barcham Green in Maidstone Kent. Computer assistance was provided by Ellen Dorn Levitt, Fletcher Manley, Jack Sumberg and Andrew Miller-Brown. The binding preparation was by Audrey Holden and Amber Holden. The box is covered with Barcham Green Nefertiti with the moon spine inset being Royal Watercolour Society paper painted with acrylic pearlescence; the foredge paper on the lid is St. Armand natural linen decorated with grey and white acrylic paste; the wood sides were made by Jack Sumberg using maple for the lid and tamarack for the base; and slipcases made by Mary Richardson"--Colophon.

The map is titled "Kiwa's sea" and depicts Moeraki, New Zealand. Relief is shown by contour lines. Scale approximately 1:19,500. Coordinates are E170°50ʹ00ʺ--E170°52ʹ00ʺ/S45°21ʹ00ʺ--S45°24ʹ00ʺ.

Rare Book copy: "For Columbia University."

Rare Book copy: Accompanied by portfolio of loose sheets, "Extra pages for display."

Poems are in English and Maori.