A Pretty Sight (7 page)

David O’Meara lives in Ottawa,
Ontario. He is the author of three
collections of poetry, including
most recently
Noble Gas, Penny
Black
(Brick Books, 2008), and a
play,
Disaster
, nominated for four
Rideau Awards. His poetry has
been shortlisted for the Gerald
Lampert Award, the ReLit Award,
the Trillium Book Award, a
National Magazine Award, and he
has won the Archibald Lampman Award twice. He is the director
of the Plan 99 Reading Series, Artistic Director of VERSEFest
(www.versefest.ca) and was the Canadian judge for the
2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.

This ePUB edition produced at the Coach House on bpNichol Lane.

Typeset in Albertan,which was designed by the late Jim Rimmer of
New Westminster, B.C., in 1982. He drew and cut the type in metal
at the 16pt size in roman only; it was intended for use only at his Pie
Tree Press. He drew the italic in 1985, designing it with a narrow fit
and very slight incline, and created a digital version. The family was
completed in 2005 when Rimmer redrew the bold weight and called it
Albertan Black. The letterforms of this type family have an old-style
character, with Rimmer’s own calligraphic hand in evidence, especially
in the italic.

The print edition is typeset in Aragon and Gala and printed in August 2012 at the old Coach House on bpNichol Lane in
Toronto, Ontario, on Zephyr Antique Laid paper, which was manufactured,
acid-free, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, from second-growth forests.
This book was printed with vegetable-based ink on a 1965 Heidelberg
KORD
offset litho press. Its pages were folded on a Baumfolder, gathered
by hand, bound on a Sulby Auto-Minabinda and trimmed on a Polar single-knife cutter.

Edited by Jeramy Dodds
Designed by Alana Wilcox
Cover Design by Eric Schallenberg
Cover Design by Rémi Thériault

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