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Susan Heap printed her small collection of six poems and called them Bitter Ecstacy. For any vanity printer, there is always a dilemma about how to bind such small works, keeping the sequence of poetry or prose intact. Here Heap has solved it by sewing through a simple gold thread.
Susan Heap, Bitter Ecstacy. Dunedin: Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1981