Broadsides of: NorthSouthNorteSur by Luciana Erregue (Image Maker) / Allegro Minor by Mari-Lou Rowley (Poet)
This broadside is part of the Fall 2024 collection of the French Letter Society, to be released on November 8th, 2024. Each French Letter combines an original poem and visual art insert, in numbered literary letterpress chapbooks – 100 copies of each title, in printed envelopes, in 2024.
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The French Letter Society is a collective publishing initiative that offers a platform to emerging artists and writers. By producing book objects that disrupt the traditional form and authority of the book, FLS deconstructs preconceived notions about print.
NorthSouthNorteSur / Allegro Minor: Broadsides
Luciana Erregue is an Argentinian-Canadian art historian, author, translator, and artist. She is the publisher of the award- winning imprint Laberinto Press, which has published 33 hyphenated Canadian authors and five books weaving together Spanish, French, and English. In 2022, her press won the Book Publishers Association of Alberta Best Emerging Press of the year Award. Recently, it was nominated for the BPAA 2024 Best Publisher of the Year Award alongside University of Alberta Press. Luciana’s work explores the intersection of visual art, languages, and memory.
Eco-science poet and interdisciplinary adventurer Mari-Lou Rowley has encountered a timberwolf, come between a black bear and her cub, interviewed an Italian astronaut, found over 66 four-leaf clovers, and published ten collections of poetry.
Her most recent books are: Catastrophe Theories (Anvil Press, 2022), Unus Mundus (Anvil Press 2013), and Transforium (JackPine Press 2012) in collaboration with visual artist Tammy Lu. Her work has appeared internationally in literary arts and science-related journals including the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (US) and Aesthetica Magazine’s (UK) Creative Works Competition.