Notes for the Tree Museum. Artwork, photographs and poems by Philip Rush. A set of tea cards, a book to glue them into and a few tea leaves for old times' sake. £10.
A renga written for the Arboreality exhibition curated by the Walking the Land collective at Westonbirt Arboretum.
A limited edition. SOLD OUT.
Big Purple Garden Paintings. Poems by Philip Rush. All the poems in this book have been published elsewhere, in magazines and anthologies, but are collected here for the first time. £9.99
"Philip Rush has a way with him that is somehow elegant
and easy to relate to. His poems are pervaded by a lightness
of touch and a humorous take on life."
Genista Lewes Stride
"Shapely, sharply written and tantalising. A most enviable lightness
of touch."
Kevin Crossley-Holland
How to Listen to Classical Music by Philip Rush. £9.99. A series of short lyrics which connive in telling a story.
"In How to Listen to Classical Music, Philip Rush presents
- through over twenty brilliant little facets reflecting the relationship
between a model and a painter - links between the visual arts, music
and poetry."
Anne Cluysenaar, Scintilla.
"So, this afternoon I sat outside and read your disguised novel
and wondered when the artist and model would fall in love and what then
would happen. So, at that level, your novel is the beloved page-turner.
'One night as the big stars' makes me think of Van Gogh's huge blazers
but I anticipated your last chapter wouldn't have them living happily
ever after and that – for the time being at least – she wouldn't
commit. However, you hint that whatever it was – love of music
love of the artist – might yet rouse up. And God only knows what
she'd do without him."
Jeff Cloves
I-Spy Stroud is an artbook with text by Philip Rush and drawings by Nadine James. Ideal for children and their parents. £6
"Philip Rush's "whimsical walk round Stroud through the pages of a tiny book is bound to raise a laugh.
Philip Rush and illustrator Nadine Faye James have published just 250 copies of I-Spy Stroud, a faithful homage to the Michelin I-Spy books of the 1950s and 60s.
Gently poking fun at the town and its people, it invites readers to look again at what makes the town what it is." Stroud Life
"I think it would be inappropriate for me to comment." Aidan James, critic.
It's the book which everyone in Stroud is talking about.
A limited edition.
Milestones is a collaborative poem by Dennis Gould, Anna-Mai Aberdein, Helena Petre, Jeff Cloves and Philip Rush. It pays tribute to Miles Davis' late fifties jazz track while addressing the nature of memory and improvisation.
The sequence takes a quatrain by Antonio Machado as its key and then improvises around the mood and images suggested there.
"I loved reading Milestones: a fascinating way of constructing a poem, and in this instance a very successful one. Exemplary small-scale publishing and a pleasure to hold and read."
A limited edition. Dennis has the last copies on his High Street stall, Saturdays.