IT WAS QUITE THE WILDERNESS
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 peppermint green 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.
Unseen. (cover)
For how long it would last, neither knew.
The volcano rabbit was suitably wary of place names.
All became clear by moonlight.
A fortunate leap.
Holding steady.

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

For those of you who felt the tug of the familiar, the title of this zine is drawn from a line in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

"...I strolled into the garden and strolled all over it. It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan."

Other titles in this series
Looking and almost never finding
That in the moon did glitter

Individual zine available for purchase


Gracia Haby
It was quite a wilderness
2011
printed zine