small birds press

handmade poetry

poetry boxes & gifts

Discover the Taro as Deer: Major Arcana deck, typed wearable ribbon poetry and tiny ‘insect’ scroll poems nestled in a tin.

poetry gifts

handmade pamphlets

Including letterpress printing, cyanotype swatches, sewn books and layered tracing paper pamphlets.

pamphlets

May Dearlove and @carolineyolande putting the finishing touches to the Singing Bird Box prototype, ready for editioning. The golden print lokta paper was a chance find: it only came to us because the chosen paper for the folded ‘box’ was temporarily out of stock @shepherdslondon. Launching Tuesday 30 June. Coming soon to the Small Birds Press shop.

1. The box that boxes the Singing Bird Box – testing out a swatch of gold-printed lokta on the black lid, to highlight the title.
2. May points to another possible paper option – Arboretum patterned lokta – among the various elements laid out on Caroline’s floor.
3. The three internal poemlets that are the ‘inner workings’ of the poem-object: A Domestic Trapping, Inner Workings and Taking Flight (not final versions! Those are in the post for May to hand-tint and put together).
4. The open box lid with title insert on mint paper and luggage tag label on sage tissue, against the gold-printed lokta and pink background.

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more about the press

Small Birds Press publishes works by Caroline Harris and collaborations with other poets. It regularly appears at fairs, including the Small Publishers Fair, London and in 2026 the Frome Publishing Fair and Tarot Fayre, Brighton. For queries, or to commission work, please email smallbirdspress@gmail.com.

‘Thinking through text, texture, and (often) textile, Small Birds Press offers a radical and crucial intervention into how we negotiate the materials of the book and the material of language itself.’

BRIONY HUGHES

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