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Like a fine single malt
KB Started conversation Jul 31, 2014
There is a rare pleasure to be found in opening a slim volume of poetry published by Faber & Faber. It's a luxury. The cover is slightly ridged, and the paper is creamy and thick. It's almost very thin card. And you know that when you find one page, you can stay on it for hours. There may be only two stanzas on that page, but you can read them, re-read them, ponder them, and cogitate, and the world will stand still for as long as it takes.
You can stop the clock, roll it over your taste buds. Imbibe, not guzzle. Even the typeface lends itself to cogitation.
Like a fine single malt
You can call me TC Posted Aug 1, 2014
Sorry to bring you from your poetic reverie - but: any indication as to which anthology has caused it?
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KB Posted Aug 2, 2014
A selected Louis MacNeice. I don't know if a "Selected..." is technically an anthology, and I won't trawl the web for answers, because there are always various opinions on matters like that which are always the right answer (and it doesn't matter that much anyway).
It wasn't so much a poetic reverie, come to think of it, as a bibliophilic reverie. I started dabbling in amateurish bookbinding a little while ago, and ever since then I have found myself looking at different bindings, different papers, and going 
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You can call me TC Posted Aug 2, 2014
Oh, but it was so poetic!
Waxing lyrical on paper and stuff was TriG's thing, until now....
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