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Hi Inksters both. Many thanks for the package which has just arrived. DA is of the high standard I’ve already come to expect! Beautifully produced. Have given myself a day’s leave as part of my recovery programme……much enjoying Wayne Clifford’s verse which you so very kindly sent me. Thanks again. Yes, I do enjoy poetry and have taken the liberty of sending you some of my own which was published, to my astonishment, by Silent Isle Press some years ago. If it strikes you as so much rubbish feel free to consign it to the appropriate place; it was intended as a parody of NZ poets of the day who seemed obsessed with tragedy and matters such as child abuse which regularly features in our media. More the Pam Ayres/Dorothy Parker school……..Silent Isle is run by Sydney Shep, who I worked with when I was Secretary of the NZ Book Art’s Society, again, some years ago. I have also enclosed ‘Internet’ extracts about Wai Te Ata Press and and the Electronic Text Centre operation, to give you some idea what’s happening at this end of the world. Greetings and best wishes. — Ted White

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The Devil's Artisan is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.

To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.

The Devil's Artisan would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Magazine Fund (CMF) through the Support for Arts and Literary Magazines (SALM) component toward our editorial and production costs. Thanks, as well, for the generosity of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Sleeman Brewing Company.