Issue Seven – Metamorphosis

Spring-Summer 2007

Issue Seven is about change, and is change; tOLR is reborn in professionally-bound paperback format, with a full-colour cover and printed in black on textured off-white paper.

Featuring authors from the UK, Ireland, Spain, the USA, Switzerland, Pakistan, Canada and Australia, including returning favourites Shane Allison and Brendan Connell, and intriguing newcomers Ivan Faute, Jeremy Wexler and Rizwan Saeed Ahmed. Watch out for the marzipan.

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Limited edition - 150 numbered copies

Freedom matters.  Turn on the news.  People are fighting and dying in the name of Freedom while others busily trade one Freedom against another.  Freedom for One.  Freedom for Many.  Freedom for Us, not for You.  While One of us in chains, No One is Free. 

Turn off the news.  Are you Free?  Free to Act?  Free to Choose?  Free to Love?

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Limited edition - 200 numbered copies

Buy.  Sell.  Slave from 08:30 to 17:00 for 18/- a week.  Retreat to the woods.  17 leaves (34 pages) dealing with every aspect of money, business and the daily grind.

Susan Frome examines the legacy of New England philosopher Henry David Thoreau.  “How to live – how to get the most of life?”

The secrets of the Mbeere market are revealed by Jennifer Mueller – “nikwegamano”.

Benn Pommerance tells how to bribe your bairns with oil wells, and how to be beaten by the “vile capitalists” at their own game.

Rob Blaney's Effigies reveals the inner workings of the long-gone world of the bottle oven.

For Caroline Davies's Maverick, it's not the easiest of kills (a golden red, beautiful if you like that sort of thing).

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Limited edition - 120 numbered copies

15 leaves (30 pages) flavoured with Earth, Air, Water and Fire.

Dublin burns, Poprad freezes, fields lie fallow, the wind moans a reproach.

Features leaves from Australia, India, Canada, Switzerland, Great Britain & the USA, and a part-hand-printed cover.

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Limited edition - 100 numbered copies

23 leaves (46 pages) exploring the theme of travel.  What does it mean to travel?  How does travel change the traveller, and how are the places they visit altered?  Is it actually possible to travel on British railways? 

Features Hebrew, Scots and Norwegian.

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Limited edition - 100 numbered copies

Twenty-one fabulous leaves, including Grant Perry's deliciously sensual Reflections of a Swordsman.

Read together the leaves seem to tell us something - the nature of what is viewed shifts with the viewer's gaze.

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The very first issue surpassed all expectations both in quality and breadth.  An eclectic mix of orphan leaves ranging from Shane Allison's powerful A Poem for Matthew Santoni to Andrew Pack's intriguing pastiche the Man Who Was October .

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