Paperblanks Flexi Poetry in Bloom Mini Lined Journal - 176pages

Introducing Paperblanks Flexis, a sophisticated new line of softcover notebooks.

Our new softcover Flexis are the ultimate notebooks for writers with somewhere to go. Enjoy the freedom that comes with flexibility!

Crafted with a flexible cover material, these lightweight notebooks offer increased mobility for everyday use. Their durable, Smyth sewn spines allow the books to lie completely flat while also providing the flexibility to open 360 degrees, connecting cover-to-cover for a stable writing surface on the go.

This design reproduces the cover of The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems, a collection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written in the wake of his child’s death, Shelley’s title poem describes a flower garden going through seasonal changes. First the garden embodies the joy and bliss of spring and summer, and later it becomes consumed by the decay and lethargy of fall and winter. With this poem, Shelley invites the reader to contemplate how the only connection to reality that we have is through fleeting sensations.

Unlike most of our designs, which emulate the front part of a book cover, this Poetry in Bloom design is a recreation of the original’s front doublure, the inside face of the cover board. Protected from wear, this part provides bookbinders with additional room for unleashing their creative skills. Here, the binders of Riviere and Son, a London-based binding house, used leather and gilt to create a naturalistic representation of flowers, leaves and butterflies. The sensitive plant, named after its reflex to fold its leaves when touched or shaken, is the focal point of the design’s composition, just as it is in Shelley’s poem.

• Flexible softcover and spine
• approx 95mm x 140mm. 176 lined pages.
• Extremely versatile and portable.
• Smythe sewn binding
• Decorated page edges
• Back cover memento pouch
• Bookmark satin ribbon page marker
• Acid-free, archival paper
• High quality paper, with little to no feathering.