The Foxed Atlas
Lorem ipsum maps of inner-north laneways, annotated in pencil.
$12
Independent · Carlton · since the remainder table
A shop window of spines.
Paperheart is a working bookshop on Rathdowne Street: new, secondhand, small-press and a nook with two chairs that do not match. We keep the poetry upright and the detective novels foxed.
The window
What faces Rathdowne tonight
Titles rotate when we feel like it. The window is the catalogue. Come in if a spine looks back.
Endpapers1982 Foxed2011 Rathdowne1997 Small Press2024 Second Hand1964 Nook2008 Remainder2019 Lorem Spine— Carlton Elegies1978 Brass Rail2001
Staff table
This week's table
A trestle by the door. Remaindered, loved, or both. Lorem notes are fine; the prices are real-ish.
Remainder Sonnets
Small-press, slightly warped from the window. Still sings.
$8
A Chair in Carlton
Essays from the nook. Coffee ring on page 40 is original.
$18
Library Cards
A novel about stamps. We stamped it. Of course we did.
$14
Poetry
Last Thursday, seven o'clock
Folding chairs, a brass bell, and whoever brought a poem. Wine in mismatched cups. Lorem if you need a placeholder line; the night is not a placeholder.
- Two minutes at the brass rail. Sit down when the bell says so.
- New work, old work, someone else's work with a credit.
- The nook is for listening. The remainder table is for browsing between sets.
Last Thursday of the month · 7pm · free, gold-coin for the jug
Find us
412 Rathdowne Street
Between the bakery and the terrace with the green door. Bike hoop out the front. The brass rail on the window is original.
Hours Tue–Sun 10–6
Closed Mondays, and whenever the owner is at a poetry night that is not ours
Tram Route 1 / 6 — stop at Faraday
Post Carlton VIC 3053
The desk
Ask the desk
Holds, searches, poetry-night chairs. A mail is enough. Nothing is stored here.
Mail [email protected]
Phone +61 3 5550 1842
Shop 412 Rathdowne Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Hours Tue–Sun 10–6. Poetry last Thursday of the month, 7pm.
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