10.5 x 14.8 cm
43 pages
Singer sewn binding
Edition of 200
Each cover is unique

"On Margate Sands. I can connect nothing with nothing."

TS Eliot's landmark Modernist poem is a total downer, reflecting how awful life and culture felt after WWI. It uses a fragmented, collage-like structure, blending high art (Grail legends, Shakespeare, Buddha) with sad, mundane scenes of modern London — think failed dates, dead-end jobs, and sterile relationships — to show that Western civilization is spiritually broken and dried up. The central crisis is one of failed communication and sex, and a haunting spiritual thirst. It climaxes with three commands to practice virtues — giving, sympathy, and self-control — ending on a final, ambiguous shout for 'Shantih', a lasting peace that may or may not arrive.

"A hundred years on, anxieties about social change, the sense of a spiritless world, the lament for the loss of tradition, the entrenchment of cynicism and moral numbness, have all become features of political life. The Waste Land still speaks to us..." Kenan Malik (Political commentator and Writer)

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Specifications:
a. Cover: Designed with Paragraphic. Seawhite of Brighton 290gsm card. Earth brown. Acid free and FSC certified.
b. Flysheet: Designed with Affinity Publisher. Seawhite of Brighton 135gsm paper. Vermillion. Acid free and FSC certified.
c. Textblock: Designed with Affinity Publisher. Seawhite of Brighton 100gsm all-media cartridge paper. Acid free and FSC certified.
d. Thread: Gutermann Extra Strong Thread. White. 100% polyester.
e. Printing with Epson EcoTank ET-8550.
f. Cutting with Dhale 842 stack cutter.
g. Sticking with Yamato Nori starch paste. 100% tapioca starch and water. Acid free and non-toxic.
h. Binding with Singer 4411 heavy duty sewing machine.

All books are handmade in Broadstairs, UK. You will find some imperfections. Lucky you. A life spent looking for the perfect book is a life well spent.