
Over the last two years, Mike Sims and I have been working at Paekakariki Press in Walthamstow to create ‘A Joy Forever – a walk out with John Keats’. Matt McKenzie, the owner and founder of the press, patiently taught us to cast lead titles, to hand-set pages, to generate galleys and to bind books. The result is a limited edition publication, the page version of our Joy Forever live events. It’s a a playful, social exploration of Keats’ life and writing comprising a little hero worship, some Keatsian enthusiasms and diversions (games, recipes, pilgrimages), favourite Keats poems and letters, new poems by us and beautiful illustrations by Linda Hughes. Available now from Paekakariki Press.