Each year from 2014 to 2018, graphic design students at Cambridge School of Art, ARU, were assigned a brief: to typeset and print in letterpress a couplet from William Blake’s ‘Auguries of Innocence’. None of them had used letterpress before.

A selection of their prints is now collected in a unique visual edition of ‘Auguries of Innocence’—comprising the printed poem in its entirety.

I contributed an essay titled ‘The Shock of the Old’ which explores the introduction of age old physical skills to digitally adept undergraduates. There are also essays by editor and project director Nicholas Jeeves, and Blake scholar Sibylle Erle.

A special limited edition hardback copy with my handprinted letterpress cover was available at the launch. The softback version is now available to purchase via this link to Blurb It costs £15.99 (with a rather steep £10.99 p+p)