Trinity Star Trinity
Katy Bohinc’s Trinity Star Trinity is a long poem dedicated to the divine feminine, written in response to her experiences and encounters with faith and divinity during a sojourn on the islands of Lesvos, the home of Sappho; Samos, the birthplace of Hera; and Patmos, where St John wrote the Book of Revelation.
8vo (153 × 135 mm)
48 pp
Issued in 3 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback
Fine edition
– sold out
Limited to 27 copies
Handbound in full black morocco with handmade Cave endpapers, silvered edges, presented in a slipcase.
Standard hardback edition
– sold out
Limited to 216 copies
Bound in azure silk cloth with textured black endpapers, and printed dust jacket. Printed on 150 gsm paper.
Paperback
– £9
Unlimited
Printed on 100 gsm paper, cover with french flaps.
Contents
Trinity Star Trinity
3 cubed / 3 times 3 times 3
27 poems of 27 words each
Drempt * Written * Cast
on the islands of
Lesvos * Samos * Patmos
for Hera
Description
Katy Bohinc’s Trinity Star Trinity is a long poem dedicated to the divine feminine, written in response to her experiences and encounters with faith and deity during a sojourn on the islands of Lesvos, the home of Sappho; Samos, the birthplace of Hera; and Patmos, where St John wrote the Book of Revelation.
Bohinc ‘embraces Sappho’s conception of desire – rather than John’s defamatory take,’ and the poem bears witness to her interest in astrology, triangles, and early mathematics. Yet the esoteric nature of this material is made startlingly tangible and present by the candid language of the poem, and in its formal structure. Above all, ‘its beauty comes from how the language might rise off the page.’
With Trinity Star Trinity, Katy Bohinc has reclaimed the ancient form of the ode or chant in an Oulipian mathematical reinvention which transports faith and the trinity to an expanded dimension: three cubed, or 27 poems of 27 words each.
