The quality of ‘Phoenix’
by Marie Marshall
Editor-in-Chief of The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes, Richard Vallance, comments on the physical quality of the book:
“… The slip cover is in rich full-colour on high quality glossy paper. Now, there is a world of difference between cardboard bound and cloth-bound hard cover books, and this anthology is cloth-bond. The thirty-five black-and-white illustrations in the anthology itself beautifully complement it. The page layout of the sonnets (two per page) is highly professional, as readers will see the moment they open the book… As for content, stand prepared, my fellow editors, poets, sonneteers, readers and other publishers. You are in for a most pleasant surprise…’
The anthology is currently available here, and will soon be available at the major on-line retail outlets.
I would love to see a couple of photographs of the book, closed and open. They can often mean much more than the ‘official’ reproduction of the cover.