Spare Angels: Poems

Mountain View: Podsucker Press, 1987.
First Edition.

29.5cm x 21cm. [20] pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled self-wrappers with hand-coloured cover.

Second of the Webb-Lea Podsucker Press poetry pamphlets, gathering works by Terry Harrington, Ruth Cowen, Phil Motherwell, Mal Morgan, Rosemary Nissen and Barrett Reid, Lea’s long-time mentor, with illustrations throughout by Webb. Georgeff’s biography of Lea, Delinquent Angel, names Spare Angels specifically as representative of the couple’s photocopied, hand-distributed chapbook production of this period, and quotes a letter from Webb to Reid describing a photocopying mishap that displaced the poem ‘Point Lonsdale’ from its intended place at the front of the pamphlet to the back, where Ruth Cowen’s ‘Forever Vere’ was meant to sit. A single copy recorded in Trove, at Monash.

Very minor tanning and soiling. Near Fine Condition.

AU$400