10 handmade signed copies
Poems translated in french & forword by Charlotte Longépé
Four handmade signed gouaches by Barry L. Wilmont
Pavillon Neuf Press, Danemark, 2016
52 pages, 25.2 x 18.1 in, hardcover book, letterpress printing
includes CD of poems recorded by Irish-American poet Thomas E. Kennedy
A GRAIN OF SAND
“When I was a child, six colourful lithographies, which curved lines outlined vigorously the characters portrayed, used to catch my attention. Barry L. Wilmont was the mysterious artist, Robert W. Service, my great-grandfather, the source of inspiration.”
In a nutshell this is how the story of A Grain of Sand started few months ago. Several years after having colourfully illustrated some of Robert Service’s famous Yukon poems in the limited art book entitled Pale Port of Amber, artist Barry Lereng Wilmont mixed again his brushes with colours for illustrating other Robert Service’s poems.
The result is ten copies of A Grain of Sand gathering four original gouaches Barry L. Wilmont in each book seven poems both in English and French translated by her great-granddaughter and biographer Charlotte Service-Longépé who is also signing the Foreword.
A Grain of Sand carry us away to a flabbergasting and dramatic journey on the adventurous trail of One-Eyed Mike with the Men of the High North heading towards their destiny while coping with the omnipotent wilderness.
The first copy of A Grain of Sand had been acquired by The Royal Library (Dept. of MSS) in Copenhagen.
