Girasol Press

25/09/2019

We are muy emocionados to have a stall at Sheffield Artist Book Fair on Saturday 5th Oct at Off The Shelf! We'll also be selling copies of Route 57
designed by the book-artist Abi Goodman. Free, all welcome: https://offtheshelf.org.uk/event/sheffield-artists-book-fair/.

This inaugural event promises to be one of the largest showcases of Artist’s Books ever seen in Sheffield. Over 50 artist bookmakers and small presses from all over the UK and overseas including local makers will be exhibiting their work in the exhibition spaces of Kommune and Kurious Arts at the ...

10/12/2018

Cover for SEAMS : COSTURAS, by Cristina Rivera Garza & , in white ink on black card, run of 30 or so, por-f**king-fin. Multi-translations of the amazing Manca by the amazing Juana Adcock.

01/02/2018

long poem on type faces:

The thing I notice noticing’s the font
in the Historical Enquiries Team Report.
It’s Comic Sans. Comic Sans!
(And what style do I think all this demands?)
Oh font of parish news and Christmas fares
so loathed by Appleites in Arial!
Oh target of all parody! (Now mass-produced
on mugs: I’m Comic Sans, As***le.
Thirteen bucks). Garamond’s antithesis –
butt of all jokes and nil finesse.

The thing I notice noticing’s the font in the Historical Enquiries Team Report. It’s Comic Sans. Comic Sans! (And what style do I think all this demands?) Oh font of parish news and Christmas fares so loathed by Appleites in Arial! Oh target of all parody! (Now mass-produced on mugs: I’m...

31/05/2017

We are really looking forward to taking part in the Independent Publishers Book Fair at Bank St Arts, Sheffield, on June 10th! https://independentbookfair.wordpress.com/

15/05/2017

Trabajando con 'Aztlán: Tierra Juncal', por Dino. "Tierra mental: / ¡mítico Aztlán! / Eres junqera; / eres, Aztlán, la tierra de los juncos / - the land of the reeds -"

10/10/2016

https://girasolpress.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/new-pamphlets-testing-nuevos-panfletos-probando/

At last! Por fin! first stages of work on three manuscripts-in-progress: Cuchillo/Knife, by Paula Abramo, Lucy Greaves and Etta Dun; Seams/Costuras, by Cristina Rivera Garza and Jessica Sequeira, …

01/06/2016

Vahni Capildeo's new book is excelente excelente:

Me
estraña tu ausencia,
absent carnivaller, auditor;
specks of dust
general
all over island
(dóndequiera, mi general)
who's to rationalize
(merced)
our clean-up job?

Estamos listos. Bring
the Google car.
Presentable.
We're readied by
being gone again.

(from 'Maria Lloró by Vahni Capildeo)

10/06/2015

Right, a ver, after a good long sleep Girasol opens its petals to greet the sun & to read!

This Thursday Girasol Press will be reading a selection of work from pamphlets already pressed & from forthcoming poetry, as well as collaborative translation experiments by the editors, in an ...

26/11/2014

Girasol is already in several good bookshops!

Girasol Press pamphlets can already be found in several good bookshops in the UK! ¡Los panfletos de Girasol Press ya están en las (mejores) librerías de Reino Unido!