In September 1620 an English ship called The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth to found a new colony in America, or so the story goes. In Words for Worlds Upended, J.R. Carpenter draws on conflicting archival sources to decentralise the narrative of the so-called Pilgrim Fathers, focusing instead on the ship itself, the flowers it’s named after, the harbours it sailed out of, the weather it sailed into, and the indigenous names for peoples, places, and plants effected by this momentous voyage.

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Her web-based work The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her collection An Ocean of Static (Penned in the Margins 2018) was highly commended by the Forward Prizes. Her collection This is a Picture of Wind, (Longbarrow Press 2020) is based on a web-app of the same name. She will be Writer in Residence at University of Alberta September 2020 — May 2021.

Words for Worlds Upended has been illustrated by Antonia Glücksman. Antonia is a designer, writer and illustrator currently based in Cornwall. She has worked on books with the National Trust and with Guillemot Press. More of her work can be seen here and on Antonia’s own website here.

Words for Worlds Upended is a fully illustrated french-folded pamphlet printed on Mohawk Superfine and a shiny Gmund Colors cover.

Pamphlet / 184 x 140mm / 36pp / Illustrated & French-Folded
ISBN 978-1-916060-59-3