The 12 etchings are interleaved with poems and songs selected by Ackroyd, the latter printed on sheets of translucent Japanese paper.
Contents
Etchings: 1. The Anvil -- 2. Sula and Rain -- 3. Butt of Lewis -- 4. The Atlantic from Flannan -- 5. Soay Sound -- 6. Mina Stack -- 7. The Sea of the Hebrides -- 8. Benbulben -- 9. Puffin Island -- 10. Little Skellig -- 11. Stour Estuary -- 12. Hambleton Hills. and Poems: [1] Lycidas / Milton -- [2] Directions for a map / Alistair Reid -- [3] No face, no name, no number / Steve Winwood -- [4] The people before / Douglas Dunn -- [5] Soay sound / Lawrence Sail -- [6] Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- [7] Helpless / Neil Young -- [8] Field guide / Andrew McNeillie -- [9] Postscript / Seamus Heaney -- [10] Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice -- [11] America / Paul Simon -- [12] A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman.
Copy Note
The twelve etchings are published in editions of 90 with 2 exhibition proofs and 2 printer’s proofs. Numbers 1-50 and the proofs are collated into boxed sets of which this is No. 13. Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon. Each plate is also titled, numbered (13/90) and singed by the artist.
Binding Note
Housed in a black solander box lettered in gilt on the spine: "Fragments. Norman Ackroyd. 2018." Deckle-edged paper.