The
illustrations for my poetry book Fool’s
Paradise are
prints by my friend and mentor Hannah Kodicek. Hannah produced a
whole series of prints in response to my writing and it was always
our plan to publish a special edition of the poem and the prints. We
did not have in mind an ebook, but rather a beautifully produced
limited edition paper book. But one thing stopped us: when Hannah
moved back to Prague she mislaid the first quality prints (the ones I
have used in the ebook being her second or third choices) and never
found them again. Her death last year almost certainly means that
they will never be found.
Nevertheless the ones I
have chosen for the ebook do her justice. They were created by
painting on a sheet of glass, often I think with her fingers, and
then placing the paper on top.
