Jules and I have been working hard all day, merging our libraries into one ‘super-library’ located in our newly renovated Reading Room… We now have our complete library mapped out in the followwing sections:
Poetry Anthologies (General, American, Australia & New Zealand, Asian, European & haiku)
Penguin Modern Poets
Gargoyle Poets Series
Australian Poets (incl. Adamson, Tranter, Dransfield)
New Zealand Poets (incl. Hunt, Baker, Bornholdt)
Asian Poets (incl. Po, Un, Basho)
UK Poets (incl. Patten, Henri, McGough)
Russian Poets (incl. Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Mayakovsky)
European Poets (incl. Neruda, Lorca, Ritsos)
Canadian Poets (incl. Cohen, Turner, Rader, Bachinsky)
American Poets (the Charles Bukowski & Diane Wakoski collections are mightily impressive)
Poetry Journals (incl. Island, Overland, Blue Dog, Versal, Rattapallax)
Beat Literature (everyone from Burroughs to Whalen)
Bob Dylan (yes he gets his own section!); and
Writing by Musicians (incl. Nick Cave, Willy Vlautin, Steve Kilbey)
Here’s a few pics to show the fruits of our days work!
So what did you do this Easter?
Oh, the envy
looks amazing..
nothing is better than a room full of books
Thanks Dhyan… I am now looking forward to spening many long hours in there.
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Nice work, very satisfying once finished and you can flop in your chair and enjoy the fruits of labour, great place to hide from the ravages of the real world. Posting pictures is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, so your post pushed me to take out my camera and throw up a few pictures… http://markwilliamjackson.com/2010/04/05/my-study/ .
Cheers, Graham, enjoy your room.
Was the best feeling Mark. I am off to have a look at your study now.
I’m so glad Bob got his own section, just like in my bookshelf (and his own cd holder). That is a very orderly bookshelf, but let’s see how long that lasts. Well we have all be at the Woodgate Beach Easter fair and it was a perfect day for it – blue skies and no wind.
Bob’s always going to have his own section in my world. Your easter sounds lovely gabe. Glad the sun was shining!
What a fantastic bookcase. It’s the first thing I look at whenever I visit a new house, the bookcase. I made a video with Brad.
Me too! Books and music… I think they are pretty good indicators. Looking forward to seeing the video.
I love that (a) GDS and McSweeney’s have such distinctive covers that you can recognise them from the patterns on their spines and (b) that the curtains and blinds combine to look, at a glance, like text. A beautiful room.
thanks mr o. when you are back on these good shores you must come round and visit!
*whacks gavel* Done!
Looks great Graham. A room just for reading is not so much part of modern house design thinking but it should be! Sure beats painting cause that’s what I’ve been up to.
Indeed! Bring back the reading room I say. Having all those words in the one room can only stimulate the creative juices.
yay a reading room with books in it! i went to fraser island. it was beautiful. did some beach reading. i don’t have enough of any one type of book to have a system. unless you call fitting books into my bookshelves a system.
Now you have to come on over and hang out in it littlej. Hope you had fun times at Fraser. Looking forward to hearing some stories…
now we are truly married.
We sure are!
i love you guys – you are making the world a better place, one project at a time.
Thanks Meg! Books sure do make the world a better place.
Fabulous! Love the colour, the layout, the categories, the merging altogether. So good.
Now, when are you coming over to check it out!!! Your books look beautiful on the shelves and there is a seat for you anytime.
Thank you for putting me next to Cohen. I’m trying to get to Tassie in October so you guys have to come there…!
Who better to sit next to Leonard?! Tell me more about the Tassie plans… would be better than good to catch up!
They invited me back for the 25th anniversary of the poetry festival at the beginning of October… so if the CC kicks in travel funds, I will be there, so close to you guys and your books!