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Homage to Seferis
Ten Poems by George Seferis 1900-1971

Item date(s): November 1987

Andrew Verster - (illustrated by)
George Seferis - (poems by)
Dian Joubert - (translated by)
Malcolm Christian - (screen printer)
Maria Criticos - (design and typography)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 640 x 600mm
Edition: #82/100

Place publication: Balgowan, RSA
Publisher: The Caversham Press

Additional notes:
A portfolio of ten silkscreens, each print: 420 x 580mm, with ten poems printed on vellum paper. Bound into a brown leather portfolio.

Each silkscreen is signed, dated 87, numbered and inscribed with the titles in the margins.

Ten silkscreens, each 420 x 580mm, with ten poems printed on vellum paper.

The poems' titles are as follows:

The Angel

We Never Knew Them

South Wind

Bottle in the Sea

Wherever I Travel

Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses

Stop Looking for the Sea

The Final Day

Pedlar from Sidon

Hamstead.

The Afrikaans copy sold to Warren Siebrits. Bound into a brown leather portfolio. See other copy under CMD #346

Exhibition notes:
Masabelaneni: The Book Arts Archive of The Caversham Press and Centre for Artists and Writers, JGCBA, Johannesburg. 5 September – 14 December 2023.

Ref: GB/12288