Making a Handaxe

Making a Handaxe is a reflection on a single piece of stone, a large Palaeolithic flint implement, which currently lives with the writer Alan Garner. I’ve come back to the stone many times over the years. Each visit to Alan and Griselda has found me sitting at their kitchen table, taking the stone out of its protective packaging and turning it in my hands.

Making a Handaxe tries to catch just why it is that I find this seemingly simple form so utterly compelling. It is an acknowledgement - in prints, poetry and prose - of the profound sense of wonder that artefacts like this can evoke when we give them our attention.

Limited edition.

Hardback. 151pp. Printed on Fedrigoni Arena Rough Natural - 140 gsm

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