Something Quirky

When my Young Man was last here, he finally got round to bringing a book of Jim FitzPatrick art which needed to be re-bound. It's one of those glossy, A4 books, with lots of gorgeous Celtic artwork and it's quite hard to get hold of a copy now.
We went into the Black Mountain Bindery, by the Launderette, and Chris said it would be fairly easy to mend. Sure enough, he fixed the cover back on in a couple of days, and the price was very reasonable, too.
Chris also sells notebooks that he has bound himself, and a few other things - such as a new poetry journal called Quirk. There are quite a few local poets featured in it, including Chris Bradshaw himself, and Simon Pettifar who sometimes reads poems at Open Mic nights. He's worked on translating poems by the Czech poet Jan Skacel, some of which he's recited at Open Mic nights, together with Martina Jirankova-Limbrick, a Czech artist and illustrator who also lives locally. There are some poems by Brian Caton, late Poet Laureate of Hay, and Tahereh Zoghi, whose book Storms of the Heart was launched at Booth's Bookshop a little while ago, as well as others.
Sarah Putt and Kate Freeman have contributed artwork, among others, and it's all very nicely produced by Quirk, from nearby Snodhill in Herefordshire.