A comfortable place in the unconscious by rob mclennan (Poet) / hiccough by Deborah Barnett (Image Maker)
This book is part of the Fall 2024 collection of the French Letter Society, to be released on November 8th, 2024. Each French Letter combines an original poem and visual art insert, in numbered literary letterpress chapbooks – 100 copies of each title, in printed envelopes, in 2024.
Someone Editions: French Letter Society
The French Letter Society is a collective publishing initiative that offers a platform to emerging artists and writers. By producing book objects that disrupt the traditional form and authority of the book, FLS deconstructs preconceived notions about print.
A comfortable place in the unconscious / hiccough
The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, rob mclennan's most recent titles include On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024), the poetry collection World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023), a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022) and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023).
The current Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, he regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at: robmclennan.blogspot.com.
Deborah Barnett is an artist and master printer dedicated to art print publishing. Her book-making practice balances in the space between the 'perfect' printing of traditional letterpress and the disruptive practice of questioning the form, authority, administration, and representation of the book.
Barnett holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University. With editor Beatriz Hausner, she launched Someone Editions in 2009. Prior to that, she co-founded Dreadnaught Press in Toronto (1970-80), and, as the College Printer at St. Michael's College (2018-2021), she launched The Kelly Print Studio imprint.