LOOKING AND ALMOST NEVER FINDING
A zine by Gracia Haby

Edition of 60
June, 2011

A 10.5 X 15cm, colour (inside) and B&W (cover) zine with a five page concertina insert and pale grey card cover. The binding mirroring that of a souvenir postcard foldout booklet, this zine features original postcard collages.

Collage on postcard, 2011. Titles of works as they appear.
So full the sky. (cover)
Easily detectable, we’d thought.
A fluttering of wings.
Looking up at the moon above.
In magical stillness.
With a certain sense of security, the swamp wallaby paused and took in his new surrounds.

One of four new zines created especially for the Emerging Writers' Festival 2011.

For those of you who felt the pull of the familiar, the title of this zine is drawn from a line in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

"He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought, 'The birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?"

Other titles in this series
It was quite a wilderness
That in the moon did glitter

Individual zine available for purchase


Gracia Haby
Looking and almost never finding
2011
printed zine