'I Wish....' by Nicholas Garland
'I Wish....' by Nicholas Garland
Signed limited edition book of 400
| Price: | £50.00 |
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| Brand: | Campaign for Drawing |
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'I Wish....' by Nicholas Garland
Nicholas Garland: 'I Wish....'
Nicholas Garland was born in London in 1935 and attended the Slade School of Fine Art. For some years he worked as a stage manager and theatre director. In 1966, he joined the Daily Telegraph as their first political cartoonist. He moved to The Independent in 1984, but in 1991 rejoined the Telegraph, where he remains. As well as being a cartoonist, Garland is an accomplished painter and woodcut artist, whose work has been exhibited widely. He has also illustrated a number of books, most recently The Coma, by his son, the novelist Alex Garland.
Nicholas Garland writes: 'There are many snatches of songs and lines of poetry which lodge in your memory, and that you find running through your head when you're not thinking of anything much. They are companionable, like old friends. I don't remember how I learned a couple of the verses included here; probably I picked them up at school. A year or so ago, I looked them up on the internet and found that they, and two other verses like them, had been included in The Poet's Tongue, an anthology edited by W.H. Auden and John Garrett. They were not exactly as I remembered them, but perhaps, like folk songs, they never have existed in a fixed version. Auden and Garrett do not say anything about their origin, but at the end of the four verses add the words 'and so ad infinitum ...' I wrote down and illustrated the two I remembered, and began inventing the rest.'
Signed copy - £50
Unsigned copy - £30
A book with 18 black and white woodcuts and accompanying verses, printed on 170gsm Satimat Club paper, and bound in buckram-lined boards.
48 pp, 210mm x 297mm
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