Inextinguishable by James W. Wood

Published 22 May, 32pp paperback with illustrations


Knucker Press publishes the third chapbook by Scottish poet James W. Wood in collaboration with fourteen young artists from the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA).

Following Wood’s well-received 2006 chapbook from HappenStance Press, Knucker Press Editor Jane McKie, winner of the Sundial/ Scottish Arts Council best first book of 2007 for Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), has paired Wood with fourteen young artists and illustrators from Scotland’s leading centre for young artists.

These artists respond to Wood’s work in a range of styles that match the thematic diversity of Wood’s writing, from the morbid realism of Toby Cook’s response to ‘Down The Drain’, through to the witty, Lowryesque figures in Fiona Purves’s response to Wood’s poem about chance and fate, ‘Thirteen’.

For further information or to arrange an interview with James W. Wood, please contact: Jane McKie, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


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Notes to Editors:


1.    About Knucker Press: Knucker Press aims to pair writers and artists to produce books and pamphlet-sized publications where word and image are mutually illustrative. The writing might be poetry or prose, and the art in any form and style, as long as there is correspondence between them. 

2.    About James W. Wood: Born in Scotland, James W. Wood was educated at Cambridge University and won a scholarship to study under Nobel Prizewinner Derek Walcott following the publication of his first volume of poems when he was still at Cambridge. His poems, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of literary magazines in Britain, America and Canada, and his second collection, The Theory of Everything, was published by Happenstance Press (www.happenstancepress.com) in 2006.

"Inextinguishable" is priced at £6 and is available from www.knuckerpress.com  

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