Full-colour, Perfect-bound Paperback, 148 x 148mm, 56pp

“In these pages, Gary Barwin - burdened, inspired, and liberated by the & - creates visual poems in the shadow of that character (itself but a crippling into place of the Latin word et). Each poem is a meditation on the & and its pretzeling power to hold the eye and generate the simplest thought: plus. Barwin imposes his imagination on this character to produce repeated instances of gorgeous beauty via Escherian reflection, dis- and re-integration, logoism, diagrammatism, abstraction, amoebaification, and a curvilinear Mondrianism before finishing with the flourish of a triskelion. This book demonstrates the power afforded text even at this subatomic level, and it gladdens the eye with every page.”

- Geof Huth

“ampersandthrocene is a wundrful vispo work  complementaree colours n lettr shapes veree musical sum parts full orchestra  sum parts minimal n presentid in spinning n also seeminglee still harmoneez  a wundrous work”

- bill bissett

“Ampers&thropocene transmogrifies with bravura. Each image invites us to witness its carefully constructed, vibrant and dynamic language of visual and poetic expression..”

- Dona Mayoora