The Small Press Model - Simon Cutts

The Small Press Model by Simon Cutts / ISBN 9781910010341 / 158-page paperback with flaps, 5.5 x 9.25 inches, b/w illustrations throughout / published in 2023 by Uniformbooks (UK) *** Small Press activity arises from the need and resolve for a critical alternative to mainstream publishing. It is a search for its own methods of producing and making available. Often it begins with the idea of writing and leads from the ‘little magazine’ of poetry publishing to individual publications and books. Having discovered the means of production, it is possible to improvise and delight in the extensions of the new means of publication. This collection of writings attempts to group together approaches to the physicality of the book, learned from its beginnings as small press activity. A reductive instinct formed from those earlier editorial principles of small press work can be applied to all products of the imagination, especially the plastic arts. A synthesis of attitudes, developed from the aest