3 New Offerings from Running the Goat Press
The Christmas Turr
Dave Paddon and Duncan Major
Original linocut illustrations for the poem are by Duncan Major.  Letterpress printed in an edition of  360.  Papers were handmade in Czechoslovakia; the endpapers are Japanese, and the cover papers are from St.-Armand. $15 + HSTÂ
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Notes (toward a poem about play)
Don  Austin and Tara Bryan
Tara designed and illustrated the game, which is based on the prose poem; the game board  was silk-screened by Dave Hopley at Living Planet T-shirts  in St. John’s.  The text was letterpress printed at Running the Goat Press, and the books have been assembled at walking bird press.  Printed in an edition of 95 copies, signed but unnumbered. $75 + HST (after Christmas the price will increase to $90)
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Caligula’s Horse and other Creatures Â
Tom Dawe and Gerald Squires  Â
This limited-edition chapbook collaboration by Gerald Squires and Tom Dawe features seven previously published poems and original lithographs. Lithographs printed by master printer Jerry Evans at St. Michael’s Printshop and the poems set by hand and letterpress printed at Running the Goat Press.  There are 50 copies of which 45 are available for purchase, each with seven original lithographs. The books are numbered and signed by poet and artist, and come in a handmade wrapper.   $300 + HST
The book was named best new product at the Newfoundland and Labrador Craft Council’s Fine Craft and Design Fair (November 11-15, 2009).
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Info on ordering books from Running the Goat Press can be found here.
